Stories
Roberta de Palma: empowering women for sustainable production
07 March 2018 | By: UNIDO
As the world continues to consume finite resources at an alarmingly rapid rate, Roberta de Palma, Chief Technical Advisor of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s (UNIDO) MEDTEST ...
Monica Maduekwe: breaking the vicious cycle of energy poverty
07 March 2018 | By: UNIDO
“Modern energy services are the thread that holds together the fabric of a modern society.” This is the view of Monica Maduekwe, a Renewable Energy Programme Officer at the Centre for Renewable Energy ...
Successful businesswoman inspires entrepreneurs in Tanzania
07 March 2018 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Fatma Riyami has been named East African Businesswoman of the Year 2017 at the annual All Africa Business Leaders Award ceremony to honour business leaders who have made a considerable impact on their ...
Virtual reality training in Southern Africa
01 February 2018 | By: Danilo DE OLIVEIRA PEREIRA
The new technology fills a gap that many governments and training institutions in Africa are struggling to bridge: the need for more skilled workers. With an ageing workforce and lack of trained youth ...
Uruguay invests in modern workforce
01 February 2018 | By: Danilo DE OLIVEIRA PEREIRA
The more automated machines get, the more likely it is that certain types of jobs get eliminated and new ones are created. Developing countries will have a harder time dealing with these changes since ...
Madagascar - design for development
31 January 2018 | By: Daniel CHANG
When survival is a must and the day-to-day is consumed by addressing basic needs, little space or time is left for artistic development. However, creative industries have proved to be an effective ...
Greening Moldova’s energy production
29 January 2018 | By: Danilo DE OLIVEIRA PEREIRA
JSC Raut was one of the biggest factories for metal processing during the Soviet era. With the help of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the government of Poland, the ...
The importance of manufacturing
19 January 2018 | By: Charles ARTHUR
UNIDO’s number-crunching shows that manufacturing’s aggregate share of developing country employment has consistently increased over the last five decades
UNIDO gives industrial development in Ethiopia a helping hand
17 January 2018 | By: UNIDO
How UNIDO is using its Programme for Country Partnership approach to take industry and manufacturing in Ethiopia to the next level.
A new age of startups: how Tunisia’s millennial entrepreneurs are boosting the economy
19 December 2017 | By: UNIDO
The will of the young people of Tunisia to find solutions and innovate is clear. UNIDO’s Mashrou3i is empowering this generation to overcome the education and employment gap.
18 December 2017 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Lebanon is among the oldest sites of wine production in the world. In ancient times, the Phoenicians were instrumental in spreading wine and viticulture throughout the Mediterranean region.
Taking climate action with Global Environment Facility funds
08 December 2017 | By: Charles ARTHUR
LI Yong, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), says, “UNIDO sees its role in the climate change field as a catalyst for scaling up investments in clean ...
UNIDO has mobilized US$849m to protect the ozone layer and reduce global warming
08 December 2017 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Since becoming an implementing agency of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol in 1992, UNIDO has completed around 1,400 projects to phase-out ozone-depleting ...
UNIDO’s EXPO engages participants in lively exchange of ideas
01 December 2017 | By: Daniel CHANG
It is the last day of UNIDO’s 17th General Conference. Over 700 people gathered in Vienna for the past five days to discuss and interact on different topics. On the sidelines of the main plenary and ...
Mexico helps protect the climate by destroying ozone-depleting substances
29 November 2017 | By: Danilo DE OLIVEIRA PEREIRA
Extremely large amounts of ozone-depleting substances are improperly stored in several countries which lack the infrastructure to destroy them. Mexico took a big step towards solving this problem.
Improving the quality of rural products in Armenia
27 November 2017 | By: Danilo De Oliveira Pereira
With a tradition of drying fruit that goes back thousands of years, there is clear potential for the country to increase its production, become self-sufficient and increase exports. But in order to ...
Hands-on training in Ethiopia, partnering for a better future
27 November 2017 | By: Daniel CHANG
Unemployment and underemployment are persistent problems in Ethiopia, especially among youth. Although the eastern African country has one of the fastest growing economies on the continent, 50% of ...
A new beginning after the war, reintegration for Liberian returnees
25 November 2017 | By: Daniel CHANG
“I believe it was the right choice to come back home. I feel good about coming home. The opportunities I have now would never have been available in a foreign country as a refugee.”
The circular economy: getting the best out of Latin America
24 November 2017 | By: Daniel CHANG
“Latin America can strongly benefit from a circular economy approach”, confirms Manuel Albaladejo, UNIDO’s representative in the regional office in Uruguay. For him, “the region combines the natural ...
Empowering young women through renewable energy training
22 November 2017 | By: Daniel CHANG
In the Republic of Gambia, where only 13% of the rural population has access to electricity, Fandema -a women’s development centre– is emerging as a beacon of hope.