UNIDOScope Archive: 2004 and 2005

 

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December
November November/December Articles
October
23 - 29 Secretary-General of Organization of American States and UNIDO Director-General sign agreement
16 - 22 First UEMOA Quality Awards presented in Ouagadougou
9 - 15 "search" as important as "research" - UNIDO project engages Civil Society Organizations as technology brokers
2 - 8 Swiss funded project to enhance Tanzania exports
September
25 - 1 Oct Linking Kyoto with the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
18 - 24 UEMOA Special Quality Day in Ouagadougou on Sept. 30 2005
11 - 17 Algerac - the Algerian Accreditation Centre: a milestone for Algerian Trade Capacity Building Initiative
4 - 10 Governance in Dynamic City Regions
August
28 - 2 Sept Nigeria: UNIDO-REEEP training to set up State level Energy Planning Cells
21 - 27 Global SPX - Supply Chain Conference 2005 Beijing - China will have SPX in five strategic centres by 2006
14 - 20 Reconstruction in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan
7 - 13 Business Plan for Ethiopia's leather and leather products industry
AGFUND working arrangement with UNIDO / ITPO - ARCEIT, Bahrain
Queen Rania Al Alabdallah of Jordan visits the Bahrain Business Incubator Center
UNIDO ARCEIT to transfer Bahrain Model of Entrepreneurship Development to Uruguay
July
31 - 6 Aug UNIDO in Viet Nam - evaluation of the programme
24 - 30 Fourth JICA/UNIDO Investment Promotion Programme for SEE Countries
3 - 23 UNIDO in China - evaluation of the programme
June
26 - 2 July Kandeh Yumkella nominated as next UNIDO Director-General
UNIDO Goodwill Ambassadors Baccini and Hara
Slovenia moves to donor status with UNIDO
19 - 25 Heads of UNIDO Operations strengthen links with HQ
UNIDO/ARCEIT Small and Medium Enterprise Growth Counsellors
12 - 18 UNIDO Community Based Production Centres in Forest Guinea supported by Japan's UN Trust Fund for Human Security
5 - 11 UNIDO ITPO new approach to partnership promotion
May
29 - 4 June IAMOT 2005 - Productivity Enhancement for Social Advance: the Role of Management of Technology - Award for UNIDO paper
22 - 28 ITPO Athens in China
15 - 21 Prime Minister Koizumi launches TICADExchange www.TICADExchange.org Connecting African and Asian Entrepreneurs
11th Entrepreneurship Development & Investment Promotion Programme in Bahrain
8 - 14 UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador Sir Ronald Grierson in Tanzania
Tanzania President Mkapa presents award to UNIDO
1 - 7 UNIDO Annual Report 2004
April
24 - 30 EU lifts Benin shrimp ban
17 - 23 Argentine Minister for Federal Planning signs Agreement on Renewable Energy with UNIDO
3 - 16 UNIDO first among peers in DFID Report on organizational effectiveness
UNIDO International Statistics Yearbook available now
March
27 - 2 April Ecuador Minister of Trade and Industry praises UNIDO work and honours Director-General
Unanimous support from High Level Committee on Programmes for UNIDO system-wide proposal
Swiss funded urban waste programme for Havana
20 - 26 UNIDO Director-General in Delhi for launching of business partnership for competitiveness
CFC-funded bamboo project announced at workshop in Ethiopia
13 - 19 UNIDO-Sandoz Partnership for affordable essential drugs in developing countries
6 - 12 BP Chairman Peter Sutherland UNIDO Goodwill Ambassador
UNODC and UNIDO join forces to fight drug trafficking and improve economic development
Med-Interprise Morocco 2004 shows results
February
27 - 5 March Policies and Strategies for competitive SME development
ARCEIT Bahrain graduates 17 more budding entrepreneurs
Three manuals on micro/small-scale food processing
20 - 26 Quality Days in Senegal urging UEMOA industries to meet international standards
Micro Hydro Power puts Mankulam online
13 - 19 Global Facilitation Partnership for Transport & Trade: Moving Forward with the WTO and Beyond?
January
30 Jan - 12 Feb Reinvigorating the economic development functions of the UN - a proposal by the UNIDO Director-General

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December
12-18 UNIDO praised in UK House of Commons by Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn
UNIDO Director-General's proposal to Chief Executives Board on UN Reform
November, December Trust Fund signings by UK, Norway, Italy, Switzerland...
African Ambassadors visit prefab house manufacturer with ITPO Tokyo
Long Yongtu and Jorge Alberto Blanco Villegas now UNIDO Goodwill Ambassadors
5-11 Italy continues support for investment promotion in Jordan
UNIDO ITPO Bahrain - UNIDO ICS Trieste workshop on Management of Water & Related Technologies in the Arab Region
UNIDO ITPO Bahrain hosts international meeting on diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
November
28-4 Dec Africa Industrialization Day: productive capacities = poverty reduction
UNITED NATIONS DAY at UNIDO ICS Trieste
21-27 29th Session of Industrial Development Board: Director-General triggers discussion on strategic vision
7-20 2nd CTI-UNIDO Joint Seminar on Technology Diffusion in CEE & CIS
October
31-6 Nov UNIDO Investment & Technology Promotion Office for Mexico
Ethiopia Update: IPE2 / Meet in Africa / PRO?INVEST
SPX Update: UNIDO Subcontracting and Partnership exchange Newsletter latest issue
24-30 Afghanistan consumers top priority in World Bank - UNOPS - UNIDO Quality Programme
UNIDO ITPO Tokyo features neem at International Cooperation Festival 2004
17-23 UNIDO Goodwill Ambassadors believe stronger private sector needed to make Human Development efforts sustainable
UNIDO to work closer with ILAC and IAF on trade capacity building
10-16 National Industrial Upgrading Office for "Mise à Niveau des Enterprises Sénégalaises"
Priyadarshni Academy Global Award for UNIDO Director-General
3-9 UNDP-UNIDO initiative on Private Sector and Development recommendations
September
26 - 2 Oct UNIDO in Timor-Leste
UNIDO Report on Ethiopia competitiveness recommends more private sector dialogue
19-25 EU - UNIDO - UEMOA Trade Capacity Building enters Phase II
12-18 Laboratory Accreditation in Developing Countries: Tested Once Accepted Everywhere
August
29-11 Sept UNIDO Industrial Development Report launched in Tanzania - Minister says market access and trade capacity building needed to avoid MDG shortfall
Eritrea: private-sector-friendly Industrial Policy - new UNIDO publication available for download
22-28 Third JICA / UNIDO Investment Promotion Programme for SEE countries
Industrial Clusters and Poverty Reduction: towards a methodology for social and poverty impact assessment
15-21 ICS-UNIDO Renewables Conference Report online athttp://www.ics.trieste.it
UNIDO TEST Programme moves on to Mediterranean
8-14 UNIDO Industrial Development Report - more room needed for private sector development
Nigeria Industrial Information Centre and Ministry website launched
1-7 WTO-UNIDO Report on implementation of Trade Capacity Building Agreement - UNIDO Director-General says effort needed to improve metrics
Africa Productive Capacity Initiative adopted by African Union as NEPAD component on industrial development
July
25-31 Sub-Saharan Africa - the new frontier in the fight against poverty - UNIDO IDR 2004 spells out challenge of meeting MDGs in Sub-Saharan Africa
AAITPC Asia-Africa Business Mission biggest ever
ITPO Tokyo hosts delegate from Gujarat India
18-24 Working with membership-based Civil Society
ITPO Tokyo hosts delegate from Sri Lanka
11-17 International Seminar on Small Hydro Power
UNIDO ITPO Tokyo hosts Delegate from Morocco
4-10 UNIDO Industrial Development Forum Proceedings available for downloading
ITPO Tokyo Delegate Programmes for Egypt, Morocco, Sri Lanka and India
June
27-3 July First EC-UNIDO direct development funding
UNIDO Industrial Subcontracting and Partnership Exchange (SPX) Beijing
20-26 Turkey & UNIDO to strengthen partnership in Central Asia, Caucasus and Middle East
APEC Forum on Innovation and Development of SMEs draws new members to UNIDO Supply Chain Programme
G77 Celebrates 40th Anniversary
13-19 OECD Ministerial Conference commits to SMEs in developing countries
6-12 10th Anniversary UNIDO/UNEP Cleaner Production Centres
May
30-5 June UNIDO Industrial Development Board presented with Business Plan for UN System
16-29 African Ministers of Industry - private sector productive capacities key to poverty alleviation
Tanzania: strengthening governance and economic management
9-15 "made in China" driving economic growth in Asia
Bahrain entrepreneurship development & enterprise creation
UNIDO Productivity Drive
2-8 SPX Chongqing - China's first
21 examples of large corporation partnerships with small enterprises in developing countries
April
25-1May UNIDO and Croatia working on Corporate Social Responsibility
UNIDO - Federexport Guide to Export Consortia
18-24 UNIDO Annual Report 2003 - A Specialized Agency "re-Specialised"
Low Cost - High Impact building materials technology transfer to Afghanistan
11-17 Upcoming Asian Business Mission to Namibia and Mozambique
http://roadmapping.cgee.org.br - your online guide to Technology Roadmapping
4-10 ITPO Walloon in Belgian delegation to DRC
Fair Globalization Commission asks for "Policy Coherence Initiatives"
March
28-1 April Ukraine - UNIDO Framework Programme 2003 - 2007
UNIDO updating WTO TBT Committee
Out Now! SPX News
21-27 African Regional Standards Organization ARSO seeking bigger role in trade capacity building
Unleashing Entrepreneurship: Making Business Work for the Poor
14-20 Italy - Egypt debt-for-development swap funds UNIDO trade capacity building
ECOSOC prepares for HLS on LDCs
UNIDO - ISO Focus
7-13 Biotechnology Forum ends with call for greater collaboration
Clean Development Mechanism workshop for South East Europe
Innovation, Clustering and global competitiveness
February
29-6 March Baden-Württemberg at UNIDO General Conference
Women entrepreneurs tame Flying Horse
First graduates of ARCEIT Women Entrepreneurship Programme
22-28 Ethiopia Action Plan on leather and textiles
Malaysian Electronics: At The Crossroads - new UNIDO publication
Evaluating Cluster and Network projects - workshop report
15-21 Cambodia first to benefit from WTO - UNIDO Agreement
A Blueprint for the African Leather Industry
Mediterranean Petroleum Conference recommends African Productive Capacity Facility

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