In an era when knowledge – increasingly – is power, the UN in Iran is playing its role to ensure that the volume of knowledge housed in the UN’s online systems is made easily accessible to Iranians. This is part of the regular work of the UN Information Centre.

In Line with this, State Management Training Centre (SMTC) affiliated to the Vice-President’s Office for Management and Human Capital Development with cooperation of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) held a workshop on “Finding UN Information” for some 70 Managers of different Vice-President Offices on 6 November 2013. SMTC’s Director Dr. Ebrahim Moussazadeh was among the participants.

UNIC Reference Assistant Nazanin Ghaemmaghami addressed them on how to retrieve UN documentation and information from UN and UNIC websites during the workshop at SMTC building- Tehran.

Ms. Ghaemmaghami elaborated on basic UN facts, subsidiary bodies of Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and gave an overview of important databases such as UNdata: A world of information, UN Public Administration Network and the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration.

She also introduced UNODC's Action against Corruption and Economic Crime to the participants as well as some important UN reports such as Human Development Report 2013, The Millennium Development Goals Report 2013, Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2013 and the recently launched UNFPA report, State of the World Population 2013.