UNITAR
Affiliated with UNITAR
The UN’s dedicated training arm, serving 500,000 beneficiaries through 500+ capacity-development activities each year.
As an affiliated center of UNITAR, CIFAL Miami Center leverages UN expertise, global agendas and resources to strengthen local and regional leadership.
UNITAR Mission
The Mission of UNITAR is to develop capacities of individuals, organisations and institutions to enhance global decision-making and to support country-level action for shaping a better future. UNITAR’s training targets two key groups of beneficiaries: the delegates to the United Nations and others who develop intergovernmental agreements establishing global norms, policies, and programmes, and the key national change agents who turn the global agreements into action at the national level.
UNITAR offers various training and capacity-development activities in the thematic areas of Strengthen multilateralism; Promote economic development and social inclusion; Advance environmental sustainability and green development; Promote sustainable peace ; Research and Technology Applications and Cross-cutting issues.
UNITAR Core Functions
Innovative Training Delivery
Designing and delivering innovative training to address needs of individuals, organisations and institutions.
Knowledge & Experience Sharing
Research & Learning Innovation
Strategic Advisory Services
UNITAR Around the World
UNITAR operates from its Geneva headquarters with regional offices in Hiroshima, New York and Bonn, and through a global network of 33 CIFAL centres across six continents. Together, these hubs deliver over 500 capacity‐building activities each year, empowering more than 500,000 beneficiaries worldwide.
The CIFAL Global Network
The Decentralized Cooperation Programme (DCP) of UNITAR has a worldwide presence through its headquarters in Geneva, field offices in Africa and Asia and the global network of CIFAL centres in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean. Each CIFAL Centre is a regional hub for capacity development bringing together public sector, private sector and civil society.
Most training activities from the DCP of UNITAR are delivered through the CIFAL Network. In the context of increasing responsibilities at a local level, they assist and build capacity of the local actors to achieve sustainable development. Each CIFAL is specialized in two or three thematic areas which are defined by the needs and priorities of the local actors in its geographical scope.
More information about the CIFAL Global Network, please view our CIFAL Global Network page, as well as the dedicated pages for the affiliated individual centers.