Stories
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.
Giving Cabo Verde’s young entrepreneurs a head start
09 November 2017 | By: UNIDO
The Entrepreneurship Curriculum Programme combines theory and practice, emphasizing a hands-on approach to learning activities such as marketing a product in a school community; learning from local ...
Creative Mediterranean: resilience is built through creativity
07 November 2017 | By: Danilo DE OLIVEIRA PEREIRA
“The project helped us change our way of thinking. For the first time, we worked on a brand of our own: Bookrah, which means tomorrow in Arabic. Creating a brand was a challenging and rewarding ...
A tiny Irish town and China's rise to superpower status
02 March 2017 | By: Charles ARTHUR
UNIDO helped with the information exchange between experts in Shannon and Chinese officials, and subsequently to the spread of SEZs across the world.
Laying the foundations for Cuba’s pharma industry
01 November 2016 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Today, Cuba has a relatively strong domestic pharmaceutical and biotechnological industry, which responds to the needs of the population and to export opportunities, but things were very different in ...
Lisa Di Sevo: “The gender employment gap in the technology sector is impossible to ignore”
By: Lucia Conti
SheTech Italy was born as a non-profit organisation with the goal of bridging the gender gap and supporting women in the world of tech, digital, and entrepreneurship. Through networking events, ...
Coronavirus: the economic impact - 20 April 2020
By: By the Policy, Research and Statistics Department, UNIDO This brief is produced by a team consisting of Nicola Cantore (lead), Frank Hartwich, Alejandro Lavopa, Keno Haverkamp, Andrea Laplane, and Niki Rodousakis.
Impact of Covid-19: the catchphrase may be uncertainty, but the losses are real
How Tunisia is embracing digital technology
By: UNIDO
The Mashrou3i project is responding to the economic impact of COVID-19 by adapting and scaling its ongoing work, and embracing digital technology to help ensure the sustainability of small businesses, ...
Green industrialization: “Create opportunities and women will step up and run with them”
By: UNIDO
On International Day of Women and Girls in Science, UNIDO spoke to Professor Linda Godfrey, a principal scientist at South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).
Taking Colombia’s natural cosmetics to the global marketplace
By: Danilo DE OLIVEIRA PEREIRA
UNIDO works together with Colombia's testing laboratories, calibration laboratories, inspection organizations, certification organizations, suppliers of reference materials and proficiency testing ...
Helping drive modern, competitive and inclusive industry in Peru
By: Charles ARTHUR
Petra Schwager talks about UNIDO’s new assistance package - the Programme for Country Partnership - now being implemented in a third country: Peru.
