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 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.
More on 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 and statistics
- Annual Report of UNIDO.
- 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.
- Open Data Platform displays all ongoing programmes and projects.
- UNIDO Data Portal. Statistics databases and publications on economic growth and data on the business structure.
- 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. UN official documents and open access publications, UN maps, UN voting data and speeches.
- UN iLibrary. UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS (Official Document System) is an full-text database of UN documents published since 1993, including digitized documents published between 1946 and 1993.
- Daily list of documents. Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus is 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 (in 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, Sweden and the UN Library in New York and the UN library in Geneva.