As a follow-up to the First ISID Forum held in June, the second Forum aimed to pilot the development of innovative partnership business models to implement inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) strategies.

The event brought together around 440 participants from 93 countries, including Heads of State and Government, ministers, representatives of bilateral and multilateral development partners, the United Nations system, the private sector, non-governmental organizations and academia.

The Forum presented UNIDO's partnership approach as a means to leverage resources from various stakeholders for the advancement of ISID. It also showcased a new type of assistance package for UNIDO Member States, the Programme for Country Partnership (PCP). Two pilot countries - Ethiopia and Senegal - were presented.

This served as an example to demonstrate the concrete potential of multi-stakeholder partnerships, and to define modalities of collaboration between Governments, stakeholders and UNIDO to scale up investment for ISID. The Forum welcomed the PCP approach, and following the examples of Ethiopia and Senegal, several countries requested to become the next tier of PCP pilot countries.