UNIDO

United Nations Industrial Development Organization, UNIDO was established as a UN Programme in 1966, although it did not become an independent specialized agency until 1985. UNIDO is based in Vienna but maintains liaison offices in Geneva, New York and other field offices around the world.

Activities

UNIDO is the central coordinating body for industrial activities and international industrial cooperation. It provides a global forum to serve developing and industrialized countries in their contact with each another and promotes industrial development in developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition. The main areas of concern of the UNIDO are

  1. transfer of technology
  2. policy advice
  3. environment
  4. energy.

The UNIDO provides advisers and other assistance, mostly in terms of

  • information
  • education
  • research

Structure

The General Conference, comprised of all member states, meets every two years to approve the work programme and budget, adopt conventions and elect the members of the Industrial Development Board and the Director General.

The Industrial Development Board consists of 53 members. It normally meets once a year to review the implementation of the work programme and budget and make recommendations to the General Conference.

The Programme and Budget Committee, composed of 27 members, is a subsidiary organ of the Industrial Development Board. It normally meets once a year to assist the Board in their preparation of the work programme.

UNIDO

Mer om UNIDO

  • The UNIDO website provides information about the structure, programmes and activities of the organization, news, statistics, full text documents and reports as well as access to relevant databases.
  • UNIDO and the SDGs

Publications

Statistics

UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases

  • United Nations Digital Library offers UN documents and open access publications, UN voting data and speeches, UN maps, Content in 6+ languages. Replaces the traditional online catalogue UNBISnet.
  • UN iLibrary UN publications online covering different topics.
  • ODS full-text UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
  • Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
  • UNBIS Thesaurus a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
  • Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
    • a list of all documents
    • a comprehensive subject index
    • an index to speeches
    • a voting chart of resolutions
  • United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library) References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
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Last modified: 2023-11-23