Stories
Bringing fresh thinking to development challenges through partner consultations
21 April 2022 | By: UNIDO
Tackling these urgent development challenges in an era of rising global instability will demand ever more innovative and collaborative solutions. This means fresh thinking, and more flexible, ...
16 April 2022 | By: Mashrou3i
Imen Jabli is a female leader in a traditionally male-dominated industry who is promoting more effective climate action
SDG 9 gets a push in Latin America with new UNIDO industrialization Accelerator
15 April 2022
A new United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) accelerator aims to speed action on Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG 9) in Latin America’s middle-income countries, many of which ...
Investment in clean energy via UNIDO's Brazil biogas project
11 March 2022 | By: Charles Arthur
The Kist and Froelich farm was one of seven biogas plants selected as innovative models to demonstrate the merits of biogas.
Teacher’s journey in promoting renewable energy-related research and development
05 March 2022 | By: Sovannary Ky
As a female teacher in the domain of science and technology, Vong Pisey is so content and proud to work in this field. She has always had the strong desire to support and encourage more women to get ...
16 February 2022
In order to remain competitive and participate in global value chains, SMEs should seize opportunities to collaborate and adopt sustainable water management practices, which would otherwise be cost ...
With UNIDO's help, China stops production of hazardous chemical
31 January 2022 | By: Charles Arthur
China ends the production, use, import and export of HBCD, an organic compound containing bromine used as a flame retardant in external thermal insulation foam.
Leveraging 4IR to “formalize” the informal economy - the COVID-19 imperative
28 January 2022
COVID-19 has opened up new perspectives for leveraging 4IR, in particular linking the informal with the formal sector as well as last mile delivery.
UNIDO: Leveraging GEF investment to achieve global environmental benefits
26 January 2022 | By: Stephan Sicars
The UNIDO-GEF partnership is unique within the global action agenda. Within its mandate for inclusive and sustainable industrial development, UNIDO utilizes the GEF financing to achieve GEBs by ...
Uday Pride: bringing quality to thinking, work and systems in India's automotive component sector
13 January 2022 | By: Charles Arthur and Sophie Nedlin
Albert Einstein once said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
With their own businesses and as workers, Egypt’s women can be winners
12 January 2022 | By: Charles Arthur and Navjot Kaur
Apprenticeship schemes to support post-COVID employment recovery in Africa’s manufacturing sector
06 January 2022 | By: Abiodun Egbetokun, Science Policy and Innovation Studies Department, National Centre for Technology Management, Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Nigeria
COVID-induced income and job losses in Africa are high, especially in the manufacturing sector and among young people. Formal apprenticeship may represent a viable tool for post-COVID employment ...
Intelligent industry and narrowing the gender gap
04 January 2022 | By: Cecilia Ugaz Estrada
There is a risk that intelligent technologies and smart intelligent products could perpetuate or even amplify inequalities if they are not designed in a way that takes account of the different ...
COVID-19 in Iran: safe disposal of medical waste
10 December 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, the number of hospital patients has increased significantly, as in other countries, and the generated medical waste has put an extra burden on ...
06 December 2021 | By: Lorena Lamas, Manuel Albaladejo and Paula Mirazo
Major transitions should leave no one behind, and the transition to renewable energy should be no exception.
06 December 2021
As the global climate gets hotter, there is an ever greater need for refrigeration. But the more we chill food and drinks in fridges and cool our rooms with air-conditioning, the hotter the air ...
South Africa's capacity to deploy Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies post-COVID-19
20 November 2021
Despite South Africa’s declared interest in taking a lead role in the implementation of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies on the continent, an analysis of the country’s innovation system and ...
What is an energy management system?
09 November 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
An energy management system (EnMS) is a framework for energy consumers, including industrial, commercial and public sector organizations, to manage their energy use.
Women promoting agro-product safety along the value chain in rural China
08 November 2021 | By: Charles ARTHUR
As part of the Improving agro-industrial practice and capacity for poverty alleviation in Quannan project, which began in early 2019, UNIDO has transformed the rapid-testing rooms in Quannan’s farmers ...
