22st session of the UNECE Working Party on Regulatory Cooperation

and Standardization Policies

Brief Introduction to UNIDO

UNIDO activities for education and training in the

field of standards, and standards-related issues

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Presentation Overview:

Part I: UNIDO Research Institute

Part II: UNIDO TCB Approach

Part III: TCB projects

Part IV: TCB global forum activities

Part V: TCB training programme in Central Asia,

Caucasus and Western CIS

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is a

specialized agency of the United Nations, whose mandate is:

i. to promote and accelerate sustainable industrial development in developing

countries and economies in transition;

ii. to work towards improving living conditions in the world’s poorest countries by

drawing on its combined global resources and expertise.

In recent years, UNIDO has assumed an enhanced role in the global development

agenda by focusing its activities on three thematic priorities:

1) POVERTY REDUCTION THROUGH PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES

2) TRADE CAPACITY BUILDING

3) ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Overview of UNIDO

UNIDO was established in 1966

It has 173 Member States

Algeria

Cameroon

China

Colombia

Côte d'Ivoire

Egypt

Ethiopia

Ghana

Guinea

India

Indonesia

Iran

Kenya

Lebanon

Afghanistan

Angola

Armenia

Bolivia

Burkina Faso

Cambodia

Ecuador

Eritrea

Madagascar

Mexico

Morocco

Nigeria

Pakistan

Philippines

Senegal

South Africa

Sudan

Thailand

Tunisia

Tanzania

Turkey

Uruguay

Viet Nam

UNIDO FIELD OFFICES UNIDO DESK OFFICES

Jordan

Kyrgyzstan Laos

Mali

Mozambique

Nicaragua

Rwanda

Sierra Leone

Zimbabwe

NATIONAL CLEANER

PRODUCTION CENTRES

INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

PROMOTION OFFICES

Bahrain

China (Beijing &

Shanghai)

France (Paris &

Marseille)

Greece

Italy

Japan

Republic of Korea

Russian

Federation

Mexico

United Kingdom

Walloon region of

Belgium

UNIDO’s Global Presence

UNIDO’s Services

UNIDO’s core functions:

Global Forum Facilitator – We produce and disseminate knowledge relating to industrial development. We act as a forum for various actors in the public and private sectors, civil society organizations and the policy-making community to establish dialogue and develop partnerships.

Technology Cooperation Agency – We design and implement programmes to support, in cooperation with our partners, sustainable industrial development efforts.

UNIDO services

Industrial Governance and Statistics

Investment and Technology Promotion

Industrial Competitiveness and Trade

Private Sector Development

Agro-Industries

Sustainable Energy and Climate Change

Montreal Protocol

Environmental Management

The UNIDO Institute for Capacity Development

• The UNIDO Institute for Capacity Development was established to respond effectively to the industrial development challenges being faced by UNIDO Member States.

• The overall aim of the Institute is to strengthen UNIDO's academic partnership, networking efforts, capacity-building and training activities.

• It provides training on key issues pertaining to sustainable industrial development.

• It serves as a platform for knowledge creation, knowledge sharing and as a catalyst for innovative solutions and ideas for addressing specific policy challenges for achieving more inclusive and sustainable patterns of globalization.

Selected Activities 2012 - 2013

• Summer School “Green Industry: Pathways Towards the Industry of the Future” (Hungary)

• Executive Training “The Future of Manufacturing” (Austria)

• Training Programme “Regional Trade Capacity Building: Central Asia” (Kyrgyzstan) and “Building Quality Infrastructure” (Poland)

• UNIDO e-learning academy

COMPETITIVENESS CONFORMITY

CONNECTIVITY

Succeeding Global Trade Participation: UNIDO 3Cs Approach

Quality Infrastructure

To achieve sustainable development and to participate in international trade, countries need the following quality-technical infrastructure:

•Metrology – to ensure traceability of measurements and calibration of measuring instruments

•Standards – national position, international promotion, national implementation

•Accreditation & peer assessment – ensure that claims of conformity are credible and internationally recognised

Strategic

Partnerships for

Trade Capacity Building

Funding over US$ 110 Million (2007-2012)

European Union Bangladesh, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Nepal, Pakistan, ECOWAS, UEMOA

Norway East Africa, Mekong, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh; SAARC, Zambia, Uganda, Malawi, GLOBAL FORUM

Switzerland Vietnam, Tanzania, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Lebanon, Egypt

Italy Egypt, Iraq

Sweden Trade Trust Fund, AIDMO, Iraq

Poland Ukraine, Moldova

Korea Mongolia, South-South Metrology Centre

India South-South Lab Testing Centre, Timor-Leste

Finland Trade Trust Fund

Spain China, Egypt

China Food Quality Safety and Testing Training Facility, Dali

TCB Geo-presence 2012

Volume 1: 25 UN Agencies 5 Regional Dev.

Banks Volume 2:

All 24 OECD DAC Members

OECD

TCB RESOURCE GUIDE 2010

Both Volumes – Intervention Areas covered:

1. Global Advocacy

2. Trade Policy Development

3. Legal and Regulatory Framework

4. Supply Capacity

5. Compliance Support Infrastructure and

Services

6. Trade Promotion Capacity Building

7. Market and Trade Information

8. Trade Facilitation

9. Physical Trade Infrastructure

10. Trade Related Financial Services

11. Other Trade Related Activities

No.15 No.15

Building trust - The Conformity Assessment Toolbox

Fast forward - National Standards Bodies in Developing Countries

Arabic (Translation

in progress

with AIDMO)

ES (Translated by

COPANT)

FR EN

Portuguese Mongolian

EN FR ES

Trade Standards Compliance Report 2010

Partner:

Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Cooperation:

EC DG Sanco/ RASFF, US FDA, FAO, ILO, IPPC, ISO, UNEP, WTO

Chapter

I – Perspectives and emerging priorities on compliance issues

II – What do border rejections tell us about compliance capacity?

III – Big or small money – how significant are border rejections for developing countries

IV – Can developing countries detect non-compliance?

V – How can technical assistance stimulate the integration into global value chains?

VI – Towards measuring the impact of Trade Capacity-Building

Country coverage: 28 countries ECOWAS and ASEAN plus reference countries

Standards Compliance Capacity Index - Overview

Next edition:

• Expansion of country

coverage

• Expansion of variables

- along the value chain

- creation of a Trade

Performance Index

Variables in 8 domains:

Standards

Metrology

Accreditation

Testing

Inspection

Certification

Private Standards

Compliance Diplomacy

Array of compliance

capacity in country 15

• Funded by Norad & UNIDO

• Launched in cooperation with Norad and CBI Netherlands

• Further cooperation with CBI, Netherlands to develop training modules based on the Guide

Contents

• The landscape of Private Standards in the apparel, footwear and furniture sectors

• Buyer Codes of conducts

• Strategies for developing country suppliers

• Trends

Making Private Standards Work for You

A guide to private standards for suppliers in the garments, footwear and furniture sectors.

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UNIDO-VIMTA South-South

Training Facility for Testing

Laboratories

Hyderabad, India

Target beneficiaries: – Testing laboratories (Chemical, Food, Microbiology, Pharmaceutical) – National Standards bodies – Quality control laboratories for industries – Quality control labs of export houses – Import product testing laboratories

No. of trainees: 100 during 2010-2011

UNIDO Supported Training Centres

No.19

UNIDO-KRISS Training

Programme in Metrology

Daejon,

Rep. of Korea

Target beneficiaries:

- National metrology institutes - Calibration laboratories

Parameters covered:

- Mass, length, volume, pressure, temperature, force and electrical

No. of trainees:

60 during 2011-2012

UNIDO-China Food Quality

Safety and Testing Training

Facility

Dali, China

Target beneficiaries:

- Milk and Diary products testing labs

Parameters covered:

- Melamine in diary products, - Arsenic content in food and water - Linoleic acid and DHA in milk formula - Enterobacter sakazakii in milk formula Sudan Red dye in food products

No. of trainees:

40 international + 50 national during 2011-2013

Trade capacity-building training programme in Central Asia, Caucasus and Western CIS

Trade Capacity Building Training

Programme for Policy Makers

Training 1 (in Russian):

Building Quality Infrastructures Training Programme for “Quality” Professionals

Training 2 (in English):

• Architecture of the quality infrastructure

• WTO Technical Barriers to Trade / Sanitary and Phytosanitary (TBT/SPS) agreements and implications

• Case studies (national and regional trade related needs and policies)

• WTO TBT/SPS agreements and implications

• Infrastructure for quality assurance and trade

• International organizations involved in the quality infrastructure

• National standards’ bodies, scope, role and responsibilities

• Conformity Assessment, techniques, schemes and systems

• International and private standards

• TCB approach in building quality infrastructures

• Sustainability of national quality infrastructure

• Case studies

1st half of 2013 2nd half of 2013

We look for background material (in Russian and

English) for both trainings and for speakers

Trade capacity-building training programme in Central Asia, Caucasus and Western CIS

Course design:

Module 1 Module 2

A preliminary 5-week distance learning component ensures that all participants share a common knowledge concerning issues of trade capacity building. Active engagement in online discussions on four modules and the relevance and quality of case studies prepared by participants in relation to their national specificities are part of the selection process for the face-to-face component

o f t h e c o u r s e .

The 8-days residential part of the course offers a dynamic mix of lecture based and participatory teaching methods. P a r t i c i p a n t s w i l l t a k e p a r t i n a number of training sessions and develop and present thematic studies. Seminars, group works and discussions w i l l f o s t e r i n t e n s e d e b a t e s .

Thank you!

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