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Solutions
UNIDO offers comprehensive services that range from simple advice and
counsel, to providing engineers to implement global agreements on reducing
greenhouse gases and industrial pollution; from helping women dressmakers in
Africa to set up textile cooperatives, to transferring appropriate
technology from one country to another. UNIDO specialists have helped
countries build local capacity to handle their own industrial maintenance,
to save on buying it in. They have helped solve sensitive problems of waste
management. They have helped create good jobs. They have brought together
the right experts with the right know-how.
Financial Resources
UNIDO's financial resources come from regular and operational budgets,
as well as contributions for technical cooperation activities. The eighth
Session of the UNIDO General Conference, held in December 1999, went on to
approve net appropriations of $132.9 million for UNIDO's regular budget for
2000-01, derived from Member States' assessed contributions. In addition,
the Conference approved estimates of net expenditures totaling to US$28.2
million for the biennium, earned from overheads on projects implemented by
the Organization.
Technical cooperation is funded from various sources. These include:
voluntary contributions from donor countries and institutions; allocations
by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP); the Multilateral Fund
for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete
the Ozone Layer; the regular programme of technical cooperation financed
from UNIDO's regular budget; and the Common Fund for Commodities.
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UNIDO field offices are maintained in the following countries:
Africa: Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire,
Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia
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Arab Countries: Algeria, Egypt,
Lebanon and Sudan
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Asia and the Pacific: China, India,
Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, Philippines and Viet Nam
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Europe and Newly Independent States:
Turkey and Uzbekistan
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Latin America and the Caribbean:
Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico and Uruguay
One Focal Point Office operates in Sri Lanka, while another operates in
Ukraine.
In addition to that UNIDO operates a network of Investment and Technology
Promotion Offices (ITPO) which promote business contacts between
industrialized and developing countries and economies in transition. The
ITPO offices are financed by the countries in which they are located:
Bahrain, China, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Poland, Republic of Korea and
Slovakia. UNIDO Centre for International Industrial Cooperation is located
in the Russian Federation and Investment Promotion Units are located in
Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Jordan.
UNIDO in Lebanon
Since its inception, UNIDO has been providing technical assistance to
Lebanon, through its projects.
In order to foster cooperation and provide better services to the country, a
local UNIDO office was established in 1994. With the agreement signed in
June 2000 by the UNIDO Director-General, Mr. Carlos Magariños and the
Minister of Industry, on behalf of the Lebanese
Government, the UNIDO office in Beirut was upgraded to the status of
Regional Office, covering also, for the time being, the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan and the Syrian Arab Republic.
In February 1999, with UNIDO's assistance, an Industrial Investment Forum
was held in Beirut.
The bulk of recent and current activities in Lebanon consist of projects
aiming at phasing-out of ozone-depleting substances (ODSs) through direct
intervention at the plant level, in companies producing refrigeration
equipment, aerosols and foams. These projects are financed by the
Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol, setup in 1991 to eliminate ODSs.
During the first half of this year, under its new approach to sustainable
industrial development, UNIDO has formulated - on the basis of an in-depth
assessment of the situation and an accurate analysis of needs - an
Integrated Programme for the enhancement of the competitiveness of the
Lebanese industry and its integration in the global market. This Programme
consists of the following five components: Effective Governance;
Partnerships and Market Access; Improving Enterprise Performance; Industrial
Environment Management; and Information Networking for Industry. The
Programme spans three years and has a total value of almost $5million, for
most of which it will be necessary to secure outside funding, with UNIDO
contributing seed money.
Concrete examples of activities included in the Programme are: the
establishment of a standardized system for industrial statistics;
streamlining the consumer protection system; the establishment of an
industrial subcontracting and partnership exchange; sectoral benchmarking;
introduction of modern business practices and entrepreneurship development,
with specific targeting of women entrepreneurs; establishment of a Cleaner
Production Centre to support local industry; preparation of a master plan
for the relocation of tanneries; establishment of an individual governance
information network; information support networking. The implementation of
some of these activities should begin before the end of the year.
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