presentation to staff council 21 June 1999

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The UN system

• General Assembly and specialized committees/
  ECOSOC (Security Council)
• The UN Secretariat under the Secretary General
  including the Funds and Programmes (UNDP, UNICEF,
  UNFPA,WFP, UNCTAD, UNEP etc.)
• Specialized Agencies with own governing Board and
  Conference (WHO, FAO, UNESCO, ILO, UNIDO, etc.),
  combining technical cooperation and global
  (forum) functions.

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The UN system

• Internal coordination through
• The Chief Executive Board and related committees
  on Programmes and Management
• The UN Development Group, overseeing the field
  based technical cooperation activities
• In the countries a Resident Coordinator and
  country team, with often sector or subject
  groups, sometimes also involving donor countries.
  

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UN system at the field level

• Common Country Assessment (CCA) and UN
  Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) based
  programming
• Now focused on Millennium Development Goals
• Halving extreme poverty and hunger
• Universal primary education
• Achieving gender equity
• Reducing under five mortality by two-thirds
• Reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters
• Reversing spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
  diseases
• Halving number of people without safe drinking
  water/environmental sustainability
• Developing global partnership for development
  incl. Targets for aid, trade and debt relief
• Bilateral programming should incorporate same
  approach!

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UNIDO in Brief

• Staff on board 650 (2002)

• Regular budget 156
  mln (2002-03)

• Technical cooperation delivery 170
  mln (2002-2003 est.)

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UNIDO Organizational Structure
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UNIDO Field Representation and Global Networks
Headquarters, Vienna
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Functions and Mission of UNIDO

• Functions
• To provide a GLOBAL FORUM for analyzing,
  assessing and benchmarking industrial development
  
• To provide specialized TECHNICAL COOPERATION
  SERVICES to developing countries and countries
  in transition
• Mission
• helps developing countries in their fight against
  marginalization in today's globalized world.
• mobilizes knowledge, skills, information and
  technology to promote productive employment, a
  competitive economy and a sound environment.

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UNIDO Service Modules

• Main strength in eight areas
• Industrial Governance and Statistics
• Investment and Technology Promotion
• Quality and Productivity
• Small Business Development
• Montreal Protocol (ozone layer)
• Industrial Energy and Kyoto Protocol
  (climate change)
• Environmental Management
• Agro-Industries

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UNIDOs Overall Priorities

• Size Small and Medium-scale Enterprises

• Sectoral Agro-based and agro-related
  (light industries) and clean technologies

• Regional Africa and LDCs

• Partners Private Sector

• Approach Integrated Programmes and thematic
  initiatives

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New approach Integrated programmes

• Focus on selected countries
• Responding to highest priorities
• After analysis/consultation government, other
  stakeholders and donors
• agree on overall objective
• develop package of integrated services aiming at
  synergy

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New Initiatives launched at LDCIII and FfD, WSSD

• Enabling Developing Countries to Participate in
  International Trade
• Rural Energy for Productive Use
• Including special trust funds

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Integrated Programmes Regional Distribution
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Funding of UNIDO activities

• Regular budget, paid by assessed contributions
  from all member states for staff and HQ
  expenses- Only 6 for technical cooperation
  projects (Constitution!)
• Projects/Programmes mainly funded by voluntary
  contributions

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Overall funding UNIDO TC
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Funding of Technical Cooperation
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Main problems for UNIDO

• Misconceptions and priorities
• Industry often seen as not related to poverty
  alleviation
• Industry seen as something for the private
  sector
• UNIDO perceived as organisation involved in
  building factories
• Pendulum of development policies and
  priorities
• Social sectors versus productive sectors

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Industrial governance and Statistics

• Main areas
• Global analysis- Report on competitiveness of
  countries through innovation and learning
• Industrial policy advice
• Public-private sector consultation mechanisms
• Industrial statistics on developing countries
• Assistance in establishing national statistics
  systems

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UNIDO trade related initiative

• Integrated approach including
• Establishment of infrastructure (standards,
  metrology, certification, accreditation, inquiry
  points
• Where possible, share facilities at regional
  level
• Cooperate with regional (integration)
  organizations (UEMOA, SADC, ECOWAS, Central
  American countries)
• Involve UNCTAD/ITC and WTO (related to
  information, training, negotiations) and
  professional organizations (ISO, ILAC, etc)
• Complementary with integrated programmes and
  focus on key sectors with export potential
  (upgrading)

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Investment and Technology Promotion

• International Technology Centres (ITCs)
• Investment and Technology Promotion Offices
  (ITPOs)
• Africa-Asia Investment and Technology Promotion
  Centre (AAITPC)
• Subcontracting and Partnership Exchanges (SPXs)
• Establishment/networking of Investment Promotion
  Agencies (Africa)
• UNIDO Exchange
• Technology Foresight
• Training, tools and methodologies

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Small and Medium Enterprises Branch
Mandate

• Contribute to competitive and equitable
  industrial development through capacity-building
  of public and private institutions for
• policy formulation and implementation
• business development services

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Targeting of Support
 
 
Target Group
Medium
Competitive insertion into national and global
value chains
Regional and Global export markets
Business Partnerships with large corporations  
Policy Support Information Services
Fair globalization
Small
Creating the missing middle
National market and first attempts in export
markets
Cluster and Network Development  
Sustainable local development
Micro
Moving from survivalist into growth mode
Local markets
Rural and women entrepreneurship  
Poverty reduction
 
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Agro-Industries

• Main areas
• Food processing (also food safety/ trade)
• Textiles
• Leather
• Wood, bamboo, rattan and related products.
• Mainly introduction of right technology, quality,
  upgrading, export development.
• Through national institutions/associations

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Environmental Management

• Network of 26 National Cleaner Production centres
• Persistent Organic Pollutants (Stockholm
  Convention) and benign alternatives
• Municipal solid waste management
• International waters (GEF)
• Reduction use mercury in artisanal gold mining
• Cartagena Protocol on bio-safety (with UNDP and
  UNEP)and BINAS

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UNIDO-the Stockholm convention

• Enabling activities towards national
  implementation plans
• Demonstration projects-Benign alternatives and
  techniques
• Non-combustion technologies
• Africa stockpiles programme
• Botanical and bio-pesticides

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Industrial Energy-Kyoto Protocol

• Industrial energy efficiency
• Improvements in existing plants
• Better products with lower energy requirements in
  production and use
• Promotion of renewable energy technologies,
  specially rural energy development
• Energy policies and Kyoto protocol
  (methodologies, climate relevant technologies and
  capacity building

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Montreal Protocol

• To eliminate Ozone Depleting Substances
• UNIDO one of three executing agencies
• Implementing some 700 projects with a value of
  more than US 250 Million) in more than 60
  countries worldwide, phasing out gt 28 000 ODP
  tons

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UNIDO related targets

• Energy(in poverty target) environment and
  partnerships.
• The Millennium Project is defining strategy
  consisting of policy clusters including Private
  sector promotion, Science and Technology and
  Environment issues.