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Nearly 20 diplomats and government officials from Asian countries completed the UNITAR Hiroshima Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Training Programme, held 13-18 February 2023. The diplomats updated their understanding of the global nuclear debate and met young activists to learn about their initiatives for a nuclear-free world. The programme’s past two cycles were run virtually due to COVID-19-related restrictions. Learning about nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation in the symbolic city of Hiroshima offered participants a deep learning experience.
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9 November 2023, Hiroshima, Japan – The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office welcomes Ms. Chisa Mikami as the new head of the office, effective 8 November 2023. Ms Mikami has extensive experience working in developing countries through her career with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and brings to the Office her knowledge of the countries that the Hiroshima Office works with.
Ms Mikami will guide the global programmes led by the Hiroshima Office in areas such as Hiroshima and peace, social innovation and entrepreneursh...
30 July 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - A training programmes on microfinance and financial inclusion run jointly by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Division for Prosperity and the Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND) was initially aimed at a few hundred staff from banks and microfinance bodies in the Middle East and Africa. But not only did it receive many more applications than expected from the target areas, it also attracted thousands from the wider finance and development sector from 108 countries.
Globally, there are more than 500 m...
汚職は民主主義とグッドガバナンスを弱体化し、政策決定の過程をゆがめ、説明責任を果たさず、法の支配を脅かし結果的に様々な公共サービスの提供に支障をきたします。また、持続可能な開発の大きな壁となり、情勢不安、テロや反政府活動を引き起こす要因にもなり得ます。
特に法執行を担当する省庁や組織内における汚職は問題であり、国境を越えた反政府活動や犯罪組織の増加、地域コミュニティの治安悪化や経済崩壊につながります。法執行機関は公務員のロールモデルとして行動し、人権に配慮した法の支配と司法制度を国民に保証する必要があります。つまり法執行機関の能力強化が行政機関全体の強化につながるとも言えます。効率的かつ効果的な行政体制を構築し、テロや反政府活動を防ぐためには国際社会が法執行機関の汚職の原因を解明し、対処していくことが必要となります。
「国連ユニタール広島事務所 法執行と汚職防止研修」は長年の汚職対策研修の経験と専門性に基づき実施しています。, アフリカ大陸の西側に広がる約3500㎞の広大なサヘル地域には約6,670万人の人々が住んでいます。長年サヘル地域では数多くの国境を越えた構造的な開発課題や脅威を抱えてきました。国際NGOトランスペアレンシー・インターナショナルの腐敗認識指数によると、調査を行った175か国のうちサヘル諸国のブルキナファソは85位、チ...