In International Cooperation field, constant training is a MUST. To Improve continuously your knowledge, your methodology and approach to the new issues of contemporary era you dispose of different FREE and really professional platform. One of those is the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). www.unitar.org
What UNITAR Is?
UNITAR provides training and capacity development activities to assist mainly developing countries with special attention to Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and other groups and communities who are most vulnerable, including those in conflict situations. The Institute covers topics in the broad areas of Peace (promote peaceful, just and inclusive societies), People and social inclusion(promote people’s well-being and support equitable representation of countries in global decision-making fora), Planet, environmental protection and restoration, and climate change (Support the conservation, restoration and safeguarding of our planet for present and future generations), Prosperity through sustainable economic growth (Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth), and Cross-fertilizing knowledge (Optimizing the use of technology and supporting coherence for the 2030 Agenda).
It also conducts research on innovative learning approaches, methods, and tools, as well as applied research to address critical issues, such as disaster risk reduction and humanitarian emergencies.
Free and Open Courses for the Public
UNITAR offers courses that run throughout the year or several times a year that are free-of-charge and open to the public. For more information about the courses offered, please see below.
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Human Rights and the Environment
This 3-hour self-paced course provides a general introduction to the relationship between human rights and the environment. Participants will gain basic knowledge for the application of human rights to environmental issues. Procedural and substantive obligations relating to the environment will be reviewed and some good practices presented, such as examples of national constitutions that have incorporated a right to a healthy environment.
All stakeholders interested in learn about the main aspects of the relationship between Human Rights and the Environment can benefit from the knowledge gained through the course. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a joint certificate UNITAR – UN Environment.
This course is a collaborative effort between UNITAR and UN Environment, which expands the learning portfolio available on InforMEA platform.
Introduction to the 2030 Agenda: A New Agenda for a Sustainable World
The MOOC on “Introduction to the 2030 Agenda: A New Agenda for a Sustainable World” is designed to improve general awareness about the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals for policy-makers and the general public, especially youth. Participants can follow the course at their own pace and can choose to have a certificate provided if they have met the certification requirements.
Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
The e-tutorial provides in-depth and wide-ranging guidance on how to mainstream the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development into each national strategies and policies. It is based on the UNDG Reference Guide "Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". Case studies introduce innovative examples of how some countries have begun to develop and use relevant tools, and activities offer an opportunity to gain a better understanding and useful skills. Although this training tool has been primarily designed for government officials and development practitioners, it is also publicly available.
E-Tutorial on Global Framework for Climate Services
This online tutorial, developed in collaboration with GFCS Office, illustrates the importance and benefits of climate services for decision-making in several thematic areas. It also presents the Global Framework for Climate Services, its objectives, components and priority areas. The tutorial is designed for national policy-makers, but it is useful also for practitioners and the general public. Materials include video interviews with experts and short self-assessment exercises to test your knowledge.
Confronting Trauma - A Primer For Global Action
The overall aim of this module is to introduce the international humanitarian, development and UN communities to the large unmet need for psychological trauma care and therapy. It starts by describing the different types of stress and trauma and the dire consequences these can have. After the description of the magnitude of the problem, the module then presents some recent innovations in the field of psychology that have opened up dramatic new possibilities, which hold the promise of an effective response at scale. Going to scale, in turn, poses new challenges and opportunities to the main stakeholder audiences for this module.
Strengthening Civilian Capacities to Protect Civilians
This advocacy presentation aims to raise awareness for and increase understanding of unarmed civilian protection (UCP). It starts by explaining the need for UCP, followed by an introduction to its key principles and methods, and finally describing how it fits into wider protection efforts and global discourses.
Conflict series - 1. What is conflict?
The course is a self-guided, self-paced, web-based course that is on-going and can be accessed at any time. The material is presented in an interactive visual and text format with web-based reference resources. Multiple choice quizzes at the end of each lesson serve a dual function of assessing and evaluating the students’ understanding and retention and provide a further didactic function by reviewing the content.
Conflict series - 2. Conflict analysis
The conflict series is an open, self-paced course meant to provide an introduction to conflict studies and more advanced courses in conflictology. The goal of this chapter is to give the learner a basic understanding of the importance of conflict analysis, and a set of tools and methods to start conducting their own.
Gender Matters
What is Gender? The term gender has become central in contemporary literature about development, security, and conflict. It isoften invoked in post-warcontexts in relation to the disproportionate and unequal effects of war on men and women. But what do we mean by the term gender, especially when we are referring to individuals and relations at local and global levels? This course offers various lenses through which you can look at the complex concept of gender and the inequalities that exist in your environment.
UN CC: Learn Introductory e-Learning Course on Climate Change
This course provides “everything you need to know” about the basics of climate change, from climate change science to governance.
It contains 6 modules with each module taking about 2 hours to complete. You will need to pass a short quiz after each module to receive your certificate from UNITAR. The course is available in four languages: English, French, Spanish and Chinese.
Please register directly on the course website: http://unccelearn.org/
Milestones in UN Peacekeeping
This course offers an overview of the history of UN peacekeeping from the founding of the United Nations in 1945 up to the present day and presents current trends in peacekeeping that may shape the future. The goal of this course is to provide a panoramic overview of the pivotal events in the history of UN peacekeeping that have shaped its present form.
Introduction to the environment, natural resources, and UN peacekeeping operations
To avoid and minimize the environmental impacts of peacekeeping missions, DPKO and the Department of Field Support (DFS) adopted an Environmental Policy for UN Field Missions in June 2009. The goal of the module is to increase general awareness of key environmental and natural resource concepts to all peacekeeping staff. This training course focuses on the environment and natural resource management in a post-conflict context. It is a general awareness training that targets all military, civilian and police personnel and should be completed either pre-deployment or once in-mission.
Environment, natural resources, and UN peacekeeping operations: Restoring Governance of Natural Resources
Over 20% of the world’s population currently lives in conflict-affected areas and fragile states. In many of these places, natural resources and their governance play a key negative role in both the conflict and the fragility. In fact, since 1990 at least 18 violent conflicts have been fuelled by the exploitation of natural resources. The main objective of this training program is to raise awareness about the links between natural resources, conflict, peacekeeping and peacebuilding among relevant peacekeeping staff and those working on planning, drafting and monitoring of the implementation of peacekeeping mandates.
Introduction to security sector reform
Security sector reform (SSR) is a nationally-owned process aimed at ensuring that security and justice providers are accountable to the state and its people; deliver effective, efficient and affordable security and justice services that meet the people’s needs; operate within a framework of good governance, rule of law, and respect for human rights; and are legitimate. The goal of the course is to offer an overview of the concept of SSR, highlight the key SSR actors and their roles and outline the implementation of SSR programs.
REDD+ Academy e-Course
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is an initiative aimed at creating a financial value for the carbon stored in forests; offering incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forested lands and invest in low-carbon paths to sustainable development. As a part of the REDD+ academy, this e-course provides a State of the Art overview of REDD+ planning and implementation, developed by some of the world’s leading REDD+ experts. The course contains 12 modules with each module taking about 2 hours to complete. You will need to pass a short quiz after each module to receive your certificate from UN-REDD and UNITAR.
Please register directly on the course website: http://unccelearn.org/
Children and Climate Change
This course presents how children and youth can be impacted by climate change, how their resilience to climate change can be strengthened, and how they can act on climate change. It contains one module which takes around 2 hours to complete. You need to pass a short quiz to receive your certificate from UNICEF and UNITAR. The course is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Cities and Climate Change
This course focuses on climate change in urban areas, covering how cities are affected by climate change, how they contribute to it, as well as how they plan for it. It contains one module which takes around 2 hours to complete. You will need to pass a short quiz after each module to receive your certificate from UN-Habitat and UNITAR. The course is available in English, French, and Spanish.
Human Health and Climate Change
This course provides an introduction to the health challenges, as well as the opportunities, that can buy associated with climate change. It contains one module which takes around 2 hours to complete. You will need to pass a short quiz after each module to receive your certificate from WHO and UNITAR. The course is available in English, French, and Spanish.
e-Tutorial on Climate Information and Services
This tutorial introduces climate information and services and their application in decision-making. It specifically aims to build capacities of African decision-makers. The tutorial is divided into three sections, and it will take around 30 minutes to complete all sections.
e-Tutorial on Climate Policy and Public Finance
This tutorial aims to build an understanding of the links between climate policy and public finance by using examples from the Asia-Pacific region. The tutorial is divided into five sections, and it will take around 30 minutes to complete all sections. The course is available in English, Khmer, and Thai.
e-Tutorial on Climate Responsive Budgeting
This tutorial introduces how governments can respond to the climate change challenge through better budgeting, which integrates climate change risks and opportunities into budget preparation. The tutorial will take around 30 minutes to complete. The course is available in English and Khmer.
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