United Nations Industrial Development Organization

United Nations Industrial Development Organization United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNIDO headquarters in Vienna, Austria
Organization type	autonomous organization
Abbreviation	UNIDO, ONUDI
management	General Director Li Yong since 2013 People's Republic of China
Founded	17th November 1966
Headquarters	Vienna , Austria
www.unido.org

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization , ( English: United Nations Industrial Development Organization ; UNIDO , French / Spanish acronym UNIDO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations with the aim of industrial development in developing countries and transition countries sustainably promote.

tasks

The main focuses or service modules of UNIDO are

• Industrial governance and statistics
• Investment and technology funding
• Promoting trade and competitiveness
• Private sector development
• Agro-industries
• Sustainable energy industry and climate change
• Montreal Protocol

facts and figures

The UNIDO was founded on November 17, 1966 as a program of the United Nations and in 1985 transformed into an independent specialized agency of the UN.

The head office is in the UNO-City (Vienna International Center) in Vienna .

The organization has 170 member states (as of April 1, 2019). UNIDO has 47 regional and country offices and employs a total of around 650 people. In addition, more than 1800 international and national experts work on UNIDO projects every year.

UNIDO implemented projects worth a total of 174.7 million US dollars in 2015.

It is currently the only UN organization budgeting in euros , and this change is also under way at the International Atomic Energy Agency .

Executive and General Directors

UNIDO Executive Directors
1967-1974	Ibrahim Helmi Abdel-Rahman ( Egypt )
1975-1985	Abd-El Rahman Khane ( Algeria )
UNIDO Directors General
1985-1992	Domingo L. Siazon Jr. ( Philippines )
1993-1997	Mauricio de Maria y Campos ( Mexico )
1998-2005	Carlos Alfredo Magariños ( Argentina )
2005-2013	Kandeh K. Yumkella ( Sierra Leone )
2013–	Li Yong ( People's Republic of China )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.unido.org/who-we-are-structure-director-general/biography accessed on July 7, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} UNIDO, Geschichte: History ( Memento of the original dated February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
3. ↑ UNIDO, Member States : Member States ( Memento from October 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
4. ↑ UNIDO annual report 2015, http://www.unido.org/fileadmin/user_media_upgrade/Resources/Publications/Annual_Report/16-06-8_UNIDO_AR2015_eBook_web.pdf