Partnered with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India to implement evidence-based interventions aimed at reducing premature mortality from NCD.

Myanmar Develops Cost-Efficient Plan to Tackle Non-Communicable Diseases with Support from UNITAR's Division on NCD, Digital Health, and Capacity Building

A panel discussion on Tackling NCD during the COVID-19 Pandemic, in partnership with the Ministry of Health, Royal Government of Bhutan.

Workshop with Manchester Metropolitan University on developing policy briefs on alcohol consumption studies in the Republic of Rwanda

India Launches Online Training for NYKS Youth Volunteers in Partnership with UNITAR

Collaborated with the Ministry of Health, the Republic of Rwanda and Rwanda Biomedical Centre to develop a National Strategy and Costed Action Plan for NCD prevention and control.

22 January 2025, Hiroshima, Japan - Lucretia Dreyer is an advocate for disability inclusion in South Africa. Driven to empower youth and bridge the digital divide, Lucretia is exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and assistive technologies can enhance the learning experience for children with disabilities in STEM.

17 January 2025, Hiroshima, Japan - Sara El Koussa, an entrepreneur from Lebanon and alumna of the Great Ideas Space 2023: Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme is helping cancer patients and their caregivers and promoting health security in her country.

Until 08 October 2024, Poland had received 981,335 refugees[1] from Ukraine fleeing the war in the country, most of whom are women and children (UNHCR, 2024a, 2024b). Efforts to assist refugees’ economic integration are underway, including job training and language classes, with support from international and local organizations (UNHCR, 2024b). As part of these efforts, the UNITAR Division for Prosperity, with financial support from the Government and the People of Japan, organized the programme “Emergency assistance for Ukrainian women refugees in Poland with digital 4IR training: Bolstering livelihoods” between October 2023 and March 2024. 
The programme targeted Ukrainian women refugees in Poland and aimed at enhancing their employability by providing them the opportunity to acquire new digital skills for the modern job market that either reinforced their previous professional experience to adapt to their new environment or opened ways for exploring new career paths. The programme intended to develop IT and entrepreneurial skills and mindsets to bolster participants’ livelihoods, with emphasis on refugees with more disadvantaged backgrounds. 
Five hundred women out of 1,000 applicants were selected to take part in the programme, seventy-five per cent of whom are between 30 and 46 years old. Participants have diverse professional backgrounds as illustrated in Figure 1. It is also worth noting that eighty per cent of them hold a high educational degree including a bachelor’s, master’s and even PhD. 
[1] The Ukrainian Embassies in Poland and Japan prefer to use the term “evacuees” instead of “refugees” in specific contexts.

27 November 2024, Hiroshima, Japan - Emmanuel Mutabazi is a Rwandan innovator who offers inclusive training programmes, especially for women and youth in communities that lack access to digital resources. A UNITAR digital skills training programme expanded his capacity to work towards his goal to make sure technology empowers everyone.