1. 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

2. 3 pillars: Converting commodities into products Targeting communities Promoting the regional dimension for value chain (regional commodity belts) 1 horizontal axis: Women and Youth Empowerment UNIDO’s response: the LDC Operational Strategy

3. UNIDO’s Support To LLDCs

4. UNIDO’s Regional Support To LLDCs Example 1: The West Africa Quality Programme • Goals: • Increasing trade and competitiveness. • Strengthening regional and national quality infrastructure. • Giving training programmes. • Achievements: • 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 : • Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. • UNIDO is also implementing quality programmes in Afghanistan and Zambia

5. 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

6. Example 3: Energy and Environment • Goals: • Providing reliable energy for LLDCs in line with APoA’s objectives. • Help governments with evaluation and recommendations. • Deliver technical assistance and feasibility studies. • Achievements: • 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 : • Chad, Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia.

7. 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

8. 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) - Plan of Action for Scaling Up Renewable Energy Development in Africa

9. Funds Mobilization and Partnerships • LDCs: • Reliance on international donors community (ODA)

10. 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

11. 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. • Example of institutional cooperation: 3ADI, a joint UNIDO-FAO-IFAD initiative to enhance food security through the development of agribusiness

12. Partnerships ○Examples ofBusiness 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

13. Future programmatic outlook • Objectives for post- 2015: • Focusing on structural transformation and economic diversification • Shifting from poverty reduction to social and inclusive development (post MDGs) • 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. • Taking advantage of the African Green Growth Initiative and Sustainable Energy for All Initiative • Agribusiness and Mineral Beneficiation to enhance Value Addition and Job Creation • Partnerships with private sector • Way forward: UNIDO delivers targeted assistance to accelerate industrial development for inclusive growth • LLDCs: accompanying the emergence of industrial sector

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