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
- transfer of technology
- policy advice
- environment
- 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.

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
- Annual Report of UNIDO 1981-.
- Industrial Development Report is published annually with a theme of concern to the Organization and a statistical survey.
- International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is a compilation of statistics on industrial development from UNIDO and OECD sources.
- UNIDO Publication database
Statistics
- Statistical databases. UNIDO maintains a variety of databases covering statistics of overall economic growth and detailed data on the business structure.
- Statistical Country Briefs. Statistics for major indicators of industrial performance are presented by country.
- Report on the World Manufacturing Production. UNIDO Statistics publishes a series of reports about growth trends of the world manufacturing production.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
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.
- All UN documents from 1993-.
- All resolutions of the Principal Organs from 1946-.
- All Security Council plenary documents from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- All supplements to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR) from 1946-.
- All General Assembly plenary meeting records from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- Older documents are being scanned: Update on UN Digitization Programme.