25-29 July 2011, Bangkok, Thailand. The UN Development Group (UNDG), in collaboration with several partners, organized a workshop for the Asia-Pacific region to support UN Country Teams in mainstreaming environmental sustainability, climate change, and disaster risk reduction in country programming. The event was supported by UNITAR with resources from the One UN CC:Learn Initiative.

Extended drought is causing a severe food crisis in the Horn of Africa with parts of Somalia so severely affected that no less than 100,000 people are moving within Somalia and towards neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia in search of emergency assistance. According to OCHA reports over 11 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa. The famine is expected to spread across all regions in southern Somalia soon unless urgent measures are put in place.

27 July, Geneva, Switzerland – UNOSAT and the partners of the GEO-PICTURES project activated their on-line geo-tagging capacity to test the operational capacity of the system in the aftermath of the blast at a munitions dump in southern Cyprus. The blast that killed at least 12 people also caused important damage to the island's largest power station causing widespread power cuts.

12 to 14 July 2011, Benin City, Nigeria. The Government of Edo State Nigeria and UNITAR organized a knowledge sharing workshop on climate change in the Niger Delta Region to enhance capacity and knowledge about the effects of climate change and promote actions to mitigate these effects.

26 July 2011, Geneva, Switzerland - UNOSAT concluded in June 2011 its technical support and analysis collaboration with the Satellite Sentinel Project launched by actor George Clooney together with the NGO Enough and with support from Harvard University.

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research is pleased to announce a French-Language Workshop on Effective Negotiation in Multilateral Conferences to be held on 7 and 8 September at United Nations Headquarters in New York (Conference Room C). The workshop, co-organized with the Olof Palme Memorial Fund (hyperlink: palmefonden.se), is part of the 2011 Negotiation Series “Towards a level playing field”.

25 July 2011, Vienna, Austria. UNITAR’s Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) continues with its innovative training designs. On 20 July the programme for the first time connected the security-relevant agendas of Vienna-based organizations with the work of the United Nations Security Council in a briefing customized for Vienna-based diplomats.

11-15 July 2001, Panama. The UN Development Group (UNDG), in collaboration with several partners, organized a workshop for the Latin American and Caribbean region to support UN Country Teams in mainstreaming environmental sustainability, climate change, and disaster risk reduction in country programming. The event that took place on 11-15 July 2011 in Panamá was supported by UNITAR with resources from UN CC:Learn.