UNIDO REPORT ON SUPPPORT MEASURES TO LLDCs AT THE
AFRICAN REGIONAL REVIEW MEETING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF
THE ALMATY PROGRAMME OF ACTION
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
17 JULY 2013
UNIDO’s response: the LDC Operational Strategy
 3 pillars:
o Converting commodities into
products
o Targeting communities
o Promoting the regional dimension for
value chain (regional commodity
belts)
 1 horizontal axis:
o Women and Youth Empowerment
UNIDO’s Support To LLDCs
UNIDO SUPPORT TO
LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (LLDCs)
REGIONAL
NATIONAL
UNIDO’s Regional Support To LLDCs
Example 1: The West Africa Quality Programme
 Goals:
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Increasing trade and competitiveness.
Strengthening regional and national quality infrastructure.
Giving training programmes.
 Achievements:
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More than 150 national standards were developed in Mali.
It provided quality assessment for two large enterprises.
Training was given to more than 48 laboratory assistants in Niger.
 Beneficiary countries :
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Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso.
UNIDO is also implementing quality programmes in Afghanistan and
Zambia
 Example 2: Trade Capacity Building
 Goals:
 Cooperate with national stakeholders to improve businesses climate,
reinforce human capital development.
 Assist in national standards, norms, metrology and regular testing.
 Assist in installing new facilities for testing and calibration activities.
 Advising and assisting the Governments in improving the national
quality infrastructure.
 Achievements:
 UNIDO interventions benefits small and medium enterprises.
 UNIDO supports the design of a regulatory frameworks for fostering
trade.
 UNIDIO assists in development of a laboratory accreditation plan.
 Organizing training workshops on calibration and traceability.
 Beneficiary countries:
Malawi, Mongolia, Bolivia, South Sudan
 Example 3: Energy and Environment
 Goals:
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Providing reliable energy for LLDCs in line with APoA’s objectives.
Help governments with evaluation and recommendations.
Deliver technical assistance and feasibility studies.
 Achievements:
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A 100kW Shiwang’andu small hydro-power was established by UNIDO
in Zambia.
This hydro-power mini grid provides renewable energy to communities
and small businesses.
UNIDO also provided a solar-mini grid which supplies the Mpanta
community with 60kW.
In Chad, four solar mini-grids are under construction.
 Beneficiary countries :
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Chad, Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia.
Selected Global Forum Activities
Regular
 Conference of the African Ministers of
Industry
(CAMI)
- Accelerated Industrial Development
of Africa (AIDA)
 LDC Ministerial Conferences
- UNIDO LDCs strategy
Selected Global Forum Activities
Others
AU-UNIDO Conference on Economic Diversification and Manufacturing in Africa
(2012)
-Promotion of economic diversification and South-South cooperation
for agribusiness and pharmaceutical sectors
-Development of a business-to-business platform to link stakeholders
High-level Conference on the development of agribusiness and agro-industry in
Africa (2010)
- African Agribusiness and Agro-industries Initiative (3ADI)
 International Conference on Renewable Energy in Africa (2008)
Africa
- Plan of Action for Scaling Up Renewable Energy Development in
Funds Mobilization and Partnerships
 LDCs:
o Reliance on
Technical cooperation activities: proportion of project
expenditure in 2012 in Africa by source
Regular Budget
international donors
community (ODA)
Industrial Development Fund
Global Environmental Facility
(GEF)
1% 3%
20%
8%
15%
Montreal Protocol
4%
8%
Self-financed trust funds
13%
28%
Third party- financed trust funds
European Union
UNDP core funds and UNDP
administered trust funds
other sources
Funds Mobilization and Partnerships
 African Union (CAMI 20, AFRIPANET, PMPA Action Plan, 3ADI)
 NEPAD Secretariat (Industry, Trade and Market Access Cluster)
 Regional Economic Communities (ECREEE, EACCREE, Industrial
Upgrading and Modernization Programme SADC, Trade Capacity in Agro
Industry EAC)
 Global Environment Facility
 Montreal Protocol Multilateral Fund
 European Union
 Japan
 United Nations Trust Funds
 Public Private Partnerships
Partnerships
○ Institutions
 Poverty reduction through
productive activities: UNDP, FAO,
IFAD, etc.
 Trade capacity building:
European Commission, WTO,
UNCTAD, UNECA, etc.
 Energy and environment: UNEP, Global Environment
Facility (GEF), Multilateral Fund for the implementation of
the Montreal Protocol, UN Energy.
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Example of institutional cooperation: 3ADI, a joint UNIDO-FAO-IFAD
initiative to enhance food security through the development of
agribusiness
Partnerships
○ Examples of Business partnerships
 HP:
→ equipping African young professionals and entrepreneurs with IT skills through
the HP Learning Initiative for Entrepreneurs (HP Life).
→ trainings held in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa since 2008.
 Chevron:
→ supporting UNIDO’s efforts to develop and integrate an entrepreneurship
curriculum
→ programme implemented in 40 secondary schools in 9 provinces of Angola
Future programmatic outlook
 Objectives for post- 2015:
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Focusing on structural transformation and economic diversification
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Shifting from poverty reduction to social and inclusive development (post MDGs)
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Strengthening relationships and mainstreaming with the UN system, partner UN
agencies, DaO engagement
 Implications of the post- 2015 goals on the industrial development of LLDCs.
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Taking advantage of the African Green Growth Initiative and Sustainable Energy
for All Initiative
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Agribusiness and Mineral Beneficiation to enhance Value Addition and Job
Creation
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Partnerships with private sector
 Way forward: UNIDO delivers targeted assistance to accelerate industrial
development for inclusive growth
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LLDCs: accompanying the emergence of industrial sector
Thank you for your kind attention.