United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
http://www.unido.org
Primary Contact
Steffen Kaeser
UNIDO is the United Nations’ specialized industrial agency, mandated to promote industrial development and international industrial cooperation. UNIDO ’s mission is to contribute to the achievement of a considerable increase in share, volume and amount of the Manufacturing Value Added (MVA) and exports of developing countries and LDC’s. UNIDO ´s Trade Capacity Building Initiative helps developing countries with technical assistance for the construction of commercial infrastructure and competitive productive capacities, in order to overcome tariff as well as non-tariff trade barriers. For “Trade related technical assistance” to be meaningful, developing countries need to have competitive higher value-added products to export in addition to having infrastructures, customs procedures and competencies for trade negotiation. UNIDO 's aim is to enable developing countries to rapidly establish the necessary physical and institutional infrastructure to satisfy the technical requirements of the Multilateral Trading System.