Research and Statistics
Governance and Statistics assists developing countries and economies in transition to monitor, benchmark and analyze their industrial performance and capabilities, and on that basis to formulate, implement and monitor strategies, policies and programmes to improve the contribution of industry to productivity growth and the achievement of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In particular, UNIDO offers the following services:
Strategic Research
UNIDO assists public and private stakeholders to prepare strategic industrial diagnoses (at national and regional levels as well as at the sub-national and supra-national levels) in order to identify and assess the opportunities and challenges faced by the domestic industries, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of the domestic innovation and learning system. UNIDO thus reviews the system of industrial governance and the ongoing strategies, policies and programmes, and proposes recommendations for improvements and change. UNIDO’s diagnoses are then presented and discussed at policy workshops, which in turn contribute to the identification of areas for UNIDO technical assistance
Industrial statistics
UNIDO provides technical assistance to introduce best practice methodologies and software systems to monitor and assess productivity performance and use it as a guide for policy-making; and enhance the quality and consistency of the industrial statistics databases so as to provide meaningful inputs for assessing productivity and industrial performance
UNIDO Institute: Growing Knowledge for Sustainable Industrial Development
The UNIDO Institute is a center of excellence. Through joint research projects, networking and partnering, and interactive training the UI works with policy makers, academics, industrial practitioners and UNIDO staff to establish an international community of industrial development thinkers and practitioners.The UI focuses on issues related to poverty reduction through productive activities, resource-efficient and environmentally sustainable industrialization, structural transformation and industrialization and industrial diversification policy.