A staggering 1.25 million people die on the world’s roads every single year while up to 50 million more are left seriously injured or disabled. These numbers make road trafficcrashesone of the leading causes of death around the world and the primary cause of death for young people aged 15-29 (WHO, 2015).

How can countries build up a critical mass of professionals that can put in place the right policies and incentives for a transition to an inclusive green economy?

In West Africa we are a community of countries. Learning about the goals of other countries helped us to figure out our priorities, we can’t develop our private sector just for us.

Everything I learnt in the module helped me to understand the European system and what was needed for a partnership and cooperation to exist between Europe and Africa.

If diplomats are equipped with the tools of mediation, they will be able to engage more effectively in this global environment and all the challenges that it brings.

The course was very helpful for us, to calculate pollutants from landfills and other sources.

Being global citizens of the planet earth, let us join hand in hand to work individually and collectively to fight for global climate change issues. We must act today instead of thinking to do it tomorrow.

As part of the cooperation agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), an annual Regional Capacity Development Programme was implemented. The general theme of the Programme was “Regional Integration Organisations as a Factor of the Modern Politics: opportunities and risks for CIS and other countries”. This annual capacity development activity was jointly organized by the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) and UNITAR.

I was always a girl who thought that one day maybe I’ll be a big person.

Practitioners from all over Africa were put together with wonderful resource persons and experts, to reflect deeply on mediation, and most importantly, on prevention and transformation of conflict in Africa.