Diapositiva 1

							    UNIDO approach for reducing poverty
through sustainable industrial growth in Africa
  Special focus on UNIDO’s activities promoted by Italy




                  Rome, 25th of June 2009
      "Friends, together, we can achieve a new phase of globalization - one that creates inclusive
     and sustainable markets, builds development and enhances international cooperation. We
                     each have a responsibility in moving our agenda forward”
                       Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations


                                     TOGETHER WITH UNIDO

UNIDO is a specialized agency of the United Nations system that works towards improving the quality of life
of the world’s poor by helping countries achieve sustainable industrial development.

UNIDO views industrial development as a means of creating employment and income to overcome poverty.

UNIDO helps developing countries and economies in transition to produce goods they can trade on the
global market. It also helps provide tools, training, technology and investment to make them competitive. At
the same time, it encourages production processes that will neither harm the environment nor place too
heavy a burden on a country’s limited energy resources.
                           TOGETHER IN AFRICA

“UNIDO’s task is to
  enable African
  nations to harness
  their resources in
  order to speed up
  their industrial
  growth and
  subsequent
  integration into the
  world economy. We
  are convinced that
  industry, and
  particularly agro-
  industries, can play a
  key role in this
  process by creating
  jobs and private
  wealth”.
                                         UNIDO and Africa

In many African countries, UNIDO has helped countries to
take the first steps in their transformation from local,
small-scale, semi-artisanal producers to competitors on
the world market.

A major objective of UNIDO is to work in concert with
African governments, institutions, CBOs and the private
sector to achieve sustainable industrial development.

Special attention is given to strengthening productive
capacities and promoting the use of renewable and more
environmentally-friendly energy.


UNIDO’s database includes details of 3,956 completed projects for the African continent as a whole,
totaling over $520 million in investment. (Industrious Africa – September 2008)
                                     UNIDO NETWORK WORLDWIDE
UNIDO has 173 Member States and
 has it HQs in Vienna, Austria.

Our organization is represented by :
• designated Country or Regional
  Offices
• a Network of Investment and
  Technology Promotion Offices
  (ITPO) financed by the host
  Countries
• National     Cleaner     Production
  Centers, established jointly with the
  United     Nations      Environment
  Programme.
• International Technology Centers
• Subcontracting Exchanges (SPX)
• Special Programs/Projects
  UNIDO NETWORK WORLDWIDE
                                   Network of UNIDO ITPOs


The UNIDO ITPO Network provides a unique combination of value-added services to client institutions and
entrepreneurs from developing countries and countries with economies in transition which want to forge
new alliances in international industrial investment and technology transfer:


  • Disseminates the latest information on legal and economic conditions, investment financing and
    opportunities for industrial cooperation; Identifies and promotes specific investment opportunities;
  • Provides expert advice at all stages of the business creation cycle;
  • Facilitates business contacts between project sponsors and potential foreign investors;
  • Maintains extensive data banks of companies interested in industrial partnerships in developing and
    transition economies
   UNIDO ITPO ITALY

In 1987, UNIDO and the Italian Government signed an
agreement for the creation in Italy of the INVESTMENT AND
TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION OFFICE (ITPO) Italy aimed at
supporting industrial cooperation with companies in
developing countries, supplying an array of services along the
path of investment projects, from the scouting of industrial
partners, to the supply of technical assistance to promising
industrial projects.

The Office is especially active in the host country but also
elsewhere, through other UNIDO networks: UNIDO
Representatives, other ITPOs, National Cleaner Production
Centers, etc.

UNIDO ITPO Italy has been involved in industrial cooperation projects in many in development countries:
Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Mongolia, Mexico, Senegal, Serbia, Tunisia, Uganda, and
Uruguay, among others.
                                                          UNIDO ITPO Italy
                                                          Delegates Programme

The Delegates Programme is operational in all UNIDO
ITPO offices and represents an essential tool in carrying
out their activities and imparting knowledge of UNIDO
methodologies. Coming from public institutions, banks,
or industrial associations of developing countries, the
Delegates are hosted for short-term periods at UNIDO
ITPOs, where they experience UNIDO methodologies
and techniques at first hand. They present to a host
country enterprises a portfolio of selected investment
                      opportunities.



When delegates return home, they contribute to the creation of an international network of human resources and become an important contact for UNIDO
ITPOs                                       and                                           host-country                                     industries.

Since 1988, 45 delegates were hosted at UNIDO ITPO Italy, and the African continent was represented by delegates coming from Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory
Coast, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Uganda.
                                    UNIDO ITPO Italy and Africa
In recent years, UNIDO ITPO Italy has enhanced its support to the economic
development of Sub-Saharan Africa, a critical area for the creation of economic
partnerships and the promotion of foreign investment. It is also a priority region
for Italy, the UN System, and UNIDO itself.

In 2007/8, the intense joint promotional activities of ITPO Italy and the Delegates
from Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda allowed major
Italian business institutions to get acquainted with the new African investment
climate and orient the interest of their associated companies to a continent
offering huge investment opportunities. The promotional work in favor of
Ethiopia and Tanzania focused on agribusiness and leather and footwear; and
for Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, and Uganda, on food processing.

Regarding Senegal, 16 Senegalese SMEs grouped in three export Consortia were
assisted by ITPO Italy in the identification of potential industrial/commercial
partners in the Italian agribusiness sector.

During 2007, UNIDO ITPO Italy, in collaboration with the University of Rome- La
Sapienza, started researching on investment of Italian SMEs in Africa, as well as
an analysis of investment opportunities and constraints.
                                       UNIDO ITPO Italy
                  Projects under Promotion in Sub-Saharan Africa


             By sector                                          By country

64%
                                                   30%
                                                                                      36%



                                           8%

                                          4%

                                                                                 6%
                                 15%                      28%
             9%

      Footwear                                                     Ivory Coast
      Tanneries and leather products                               Tanzania
      Agro-Industry
      Textile                                                      Senegal
      Handicraft                                                   Ethiopia
                   Millennium Cities Initiative - UNIDO’s contribution

The Millennium Cities Initiative (MCI) is assisting selected mid-
sized cities across sub-Saharan Africa in their efforts to achieve
the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Economic growth required for eradication of poverty and the
achievement of the other associated MDGs depends on capital
accumulation (investment) and technical change going hand in
hand.

UNIDO supports the MCI by identifying, together with national
counterparts, investment opportunities using its tools and
methodologies including the project appraisal and analysis
software COMFAR III Expert - www.unido.org/comfar.

Promotion of investment opportunities is achieved through
UNIDO’s ITPO network.
                  FUTURE UNIDO ITPO NETWORK FOCUS IN AFRICA
                              Environment, Energy, Agribusiness

As to sustainability and environmental concerns,
UNIDO is collaborating with other members of UN-
Energy, the coordinating mechanism for UN system-
wide coordination, chaired by UNIDO’s Director
General, Kandeh Yumkella, in all issues dealing with
energy, from household energy to access to modern,
commercial energy for productive purposes. Many
ITPO host countries also fund environment programs
through the ITPOs.

UNIDO, as well as ITPO Italy within their Environment Programs intend also to help African countries and sub-
regional groups to access some of the major carbon-finance resources being deployed to arrest climate change,
especially in the carbon sinks/sequestration areas where a number of African countries could be major players,
in the sequel to Kyoto, namely all those with important forests or reforestation potential (Congo Basin, West-
African coastal forests/treecrops plantations, Eastern Southern Savanna countries). Finally, UNIDO further
reinforce its focus on Agri-business in Africa and proposes to collaborate with the NEPAD on matters of joint
concern.
               UNIDO ITPO NETWORK IN AFRICA
                Future Modalities of Operations
• Value Chains (National/Regional/Global)
• Multi ITPO coordinated intervention in one
  country/region
• Renewable Energy Initiatives
• Localities Initiatives (MCI and others)
• Supply Chains
• Pilot projects/Innovative business models
• Upgrading and Modernization Programs (EPA)
• Promotion of domestic investment (EDIP)
• Responsible Investments (CSR)
• SME Clustered Investments / Export Consortia
                                         Thank you for your attention




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