United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s Mandate
UNIDO is a specialized agency of the United Nations that works towards improving the quality of life of the world’s poor by helping countries achieve sustainable industrial development.
UNIDO views industrial development as a means of creating employment and income in order to overcome poverty.
UNIDO helps developing countries produce goods they can trade on the global market, and helps provide the tools - training, technology, and investment - to make them competitive. At the same time, it encourages production processes that will neither harm the environment nor place too heavy a burden on a country’s limited energy resources.
One of UNIDO’s priorities is to encourage the use of alternative sources of energy – solar, wind, biomass and water – and in doing so help those countries and regions affected to achieve economic growth.
UNIDO has 172 Member States and has its headquarters in Vienna, Austria.
For further information, please visit www.unido.org.
The UNIDO Brussels Office
The responsibility of the UNIDO Office in Brussels is to ensure adequate representation in Brussels to strengthen UNIDO’s visibility and interaction with the European Union (EU) and its institutions, the ACP Secretariat, the Centre for the Development of Enterprise, the UN System in Brussels and the Belgian Authorities.
The office also maintains a close liaison with Member State Missions located in Brussels and has a liaison function to the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg and to the Luxembourgian authorities.
The main objective of the UNIDO office in Brussels is to continue to develop the partnership between the European Union and UNIDO further, with a focus on UNIDO’s priority areas: Poverty Reduction through Productive Capacities, Trade Capacity-building and Energy/Environment.
Main activities of the staff
- Facilitate the strategic positioning of UNIDO on critical development issues, including resource mobilization.
- Identify emerging opportunities for enhancing UNIDO’s cooperation with the EU.
- Advocate for UNIDO policies and expertise.
- Liaise and coordinate UNIDO’s activities with the UN system in Brussels and other strategic partners such as the ACP Secretariat and CDE.
- Represent UNIDO at political and inter-agency meetings.
- Prepare and deliver statements on behalf of UNIDO.
- Provide advice to UNIDO headquarters on issues related to its interaction with the EU.
Library
You may view the UNIDO publications from the following website:
http://www.unido.org/index.php?id=o6397
Annual report 2008
Public Goods for
Economic DevelopmentIndustrial Development Report, 2009
"Breaking in and moving up: New industrial challenges for the bottom billion and the middle-income countries"
Contact details
For further information, please contact:
UNIDO Brussels Office
UN House
14, Rue Montoyer
B-1000 Brussels
Tel: +32 2 511 16 90
Fax: +32 2 511 75 88
office.brussels@unido.org
