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Software and Tools
COMFAR III Expert is a computer software that permits the user to simulate the short- and long-term financial and economic situation of investment projects. The software permits the analysis of industrial as well as non-industrial projects, whether new investments, rehabilitations, expansions, joint venture or privatization projects.
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REAP (Responsible Entrepreneurs Achievement Programme) is a CSR-based management and reporting tool that supports Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in implementing CSR concepts, thereby aligning economic, social and environmental aspects of business (also referred to as “Triple Bottom Line Approach”).
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FIT, which is short for "Financial Improvement Toolkit", is the software product developed for those managers who want to establish their own Strategic Management Assistant and Adviser.
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BEST, which is short for "Business Environment Strategic Toolkit", is the software product developed for those managers who want to establish their own Enterprise Management Assistant and Adviser. The software allows the transformation of the company's strategic objectives into a coherent set of performance measures, meeting the managers' needs in a market economy. The primary enterprise monitoring instrument is a set of 25 indicators, i.e. arithmetic expressions which combine business oriented variables and parameters into easily interpreted information.
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PHAROS Business Navigator is a simple and easy to use however comprehensive software package for managing, measuring and benchmarking of enterprise business performance.
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MCCT, which is short for Measurement Control Chart Toolkit, is a software package helping managers and engineers in their routine activities related to monitoring/handling measurement devices and stations at the enterprise. The software provides effective support to the implementation of the ISO 9000 series of Quality standards.
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Publications & Documents
UNIDO IPU Jordan Practical Guidelines for the Organization of an Investment and Trade Forum in Jordan
The document provides a set of guidelines issued from a practical case of IPU Jordan organizing "Growing Business in Jordan", an Investment and Trade Forum, which took place in Amman in June 2006. It provides practical insights of various steps and outcomes, which should be planned when an Investment Forum is organized in the MENA or other developing Regions.
UNIDO Programme on Cleaner Industrial Production, UNIDO Secretariat
The document describes the UNIDO programme on cleaner industrial production with particular emphasis on the joint UNIDO/UNEP programme of National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs), its objectives and implementation approach. It draws attention to the need for worldwide implementation of cleaner production and emphasizes the importance of international networking in the promotion of the concept.
The Role of Industrial Business Associations in Cleaner Industrial Production and in Support of Cleaner Production Activities, UNIDO and the International Network for Environmental Management
The International Network for Environmental Management (INEM) aims to minimize the environmental impacts of industrial activities and to help industry and business reconcile the imperatives of development and environment.
INEM draws on the concrete experience of members to show how to implement pro-active environmental policies that are compatible with market success.
INEM actively promotes the concept of cleaner industrial production both directly and indirectly through the enabling environment it fosters, and through the motivation of management it creates all over the world.
The Role of Environmental NGOs in Cleaner Industrial Production, UNIDO and Greenpeace International
This document draws attention on the view and action of Greenpeace International concerning cleaner production related to environmental issues.
Greenpeace International involvement in clean production includes the organization of a campaign against toxic trade in Central and Eastern Europe, mainly in Poland, tracking foreign aid and investment, exposing waste trade schemes, the transfer of misguided western technologies and unwanted products. Greenpeace International campaigns for the adoption of clean production by highlighting the opportunities for clean production that exist especially in countries with economies in transition.
Investment Project Preparation and Appraisal - Teaching Material
The Investment Project Preparation and Appraisal teaching materials cover analysis and appraisal of new and expansion investment projects from the point of view of direct stakeholders such as investors, financiers, guarantors and suppliers and also a project's impact on the regional or national economy.
The view of investment analysis is comprehensive, linking the commercial and larger external environment in which a project is to function.
This set of teaching materials can be applied to in a variety of training applications. Participants can be investors and entrepreneurs, bankers, consultants, project planners, project managers, staff members of regulatory and licensing authorities. If the group is homogeneous the materials can be presented selectively.
The teaching materials are organized in 7 Modules:
- Module 1 Overview
- Module 2 Market Analysis and Marketing
- Module 3 Technical Analysis
- Module 4 Financial Analysis
- Module 5 Economic Analysis
- Module 6 Expansion/Modernization Projects
- Module 7 Project Appraisal
Sector of renewable energy sources in Tunisia
Since the early 1990’s, the energy sector in Tunisia has been characterised by a great tendency towards an imbalance of energy sources. In the coming years, the gap between domestic offer and local demand is going to widen up.
Aware of this situation, the Tunisian government is trying to make the most of every single opportunity likely to contribute to face this tendency. The development of renewable energy sources represents one of the opportunities that may give an answer to the three concerns.
This report has been drawn up within the framework of sectoral activities regarding “Environment and Energy” of the Investment Promotion Unit of UNIDO, with the purpose of:
• introducing the sector to foreign operators and investors interested in the Tunisian market,
• Promoting industrial partnerships between foreign and Tunisian companies in this sector.
Support to SMEs in the Arab region: Case of Tunisia
This report provides an analysis, constraints and challenges faced by Tunisian SME sector.
It has been realized by a research team based at UNIDO ITPO in Italy in collaboration with IPU in Tunisia.
