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VIENNA, 8 May 2020 - The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has organized a webinar on ensuring industrial safety and security in times of COVID-19 and beyond.
NAIROBI, 8 May 2020 - The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has launched a two-month food safety awareness campaign to sensitize people in Kenya about food safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
VIENNA, 4 May, 2020 - Due to the COVID-19 emergency, this year, the UNCTAD’s E-commerce Week was conducted over Webex videoconferencing from 27 April-1 May 2020. The conference convened stakeholders from different sectors to discuss the role e-commerce can play in supporting communities in addressing various challenges in these unprecedented times.
5 May 2020 – In late April, more than 60 members of Indonesia’s Tropical Seaweed Innovation Network (TSIN) held a virtual consultation on the state of the seaweed industry in relation to the COVID-19 epidemic.
VIENNA, 23 April 2020 - UNIDO and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) have unveilled a large-scale new programmatic framework, the Global Market Access Programme (GMAP).
ULAANBAATAR, 20 April 2020 - In spite of the COVID-19 lockdown and the need for physical distancing, UNIDO is continuing to work and carry out its mission to help member states achieve inclusive and sustainable industrial development. In the case of the training components of capacity-building projects, in order to help flatten the curve of COVID-19 infection rates, UNIDO is working with beneficiaries to make use of e-learning tools and online training webinars.
VIENNA, 20 April - The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of quality infrastructure (QI) in order to meet essential societal needs: maintaining reliable standards in laboratory testing of samples; ensuring safely manufactured medical supplies and personal protective equipment; and continuing trading within essential value chains.
CAIRO, 9 April 2020 – Experts from the Arab Network of Food Risk Analysis (AFRANet) have issued a technical review of the latest scientific knowledge on COVID-19 and the associated virus SARS-CoV-2 in relation to the implications on food safety and food business operations. AFRANet’s review, which is in Arabic, was organized by way of virtual meetings and email exchanges involving eight experts representing seven Arab countries.
9 April 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted and impacted the daily lives of people and hampered economic activities in many countries across the world. The coronavirus’s continuing spread requires global stakeholders to collaborate, support each other and find innovative solutions together in order to address the core challenges that countries are experiencing.
Arab region issues-based coalition on economic management to be co-convened by UNIDO, UNDP and ESCWA
VIENNA, 6 April 2020 – The regional chapter of the UN reform keeps moving forward steadily. The Arab region’s Regional Collaborative Platform (RCP) met last week virtually to reach agreement in the final configuration of the so-called "issues-based coalitions" (IBCs). The final design served to include a sub-group on economic management which will be co-convened by UNIDO’s Arab Regional Division.