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"Intergovernmental negotiations for the post-2015 development agenda are still ongoing in the run up to its adoption at the United Nations Summit in September. Despite this fact, there seems to be an overarching consensus that poverty eradication is imperative and that it can only be achieved through sustainable development, an area where UNIDO has a significant role to play."
Partnerships are key for implementing the post-2015 development agenda.
Addis Ababa, 14 July 2015
Third ISID Forum to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 14 July 2015.
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World Investment Conference supports inclusive and sustainable industrialization.
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Over the past few years, the international community has made a quantum leap in advancing new approaches to accelerate progress and pave the way for a more ambitious, inclusive and universal development framework beyond 2015. While industrialization was not factored into the Millennium Development Goals framework, inclusive and sustainable industrialization now features strongly in the post-2015 development discourse.
The UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has proposed as goal 9 “Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”. This confirms the provisions of the Lima Declaration and the relevance of ISID for the new global development architecture.
ISID is credited with promoting value addition, realizing productivity gains and returns to scale, creating jobs and income, enhancing international competitiveness and trade, building efficient and effective productive capacity, supporting economic diversification, and building green industries. This structural transformation unleashes an enormous development potential as it features close linkages to infrastructure development, innovation and the efficient and sustainable use of resources, as well as to a wider range of other sustainable development priorities.
During the 15th session of UNIDO's General Conference in Lima, Peru, the Member States renewed their commitment to inclusive and sustainable industrial development and to strengthen cooperation among regions, including South-South cooperation. The commitment was underlined in a political declaration - the Lima Declaration.
Following Member States’ endorsement of the Lima Declaration in December 2013, which gave UNIDO a new mandate to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID), the first ISID Forum engaged Member States in a strategic dialogue on how to formulate strategies and policies that promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development.
In line with the post-2015 development agenda, the second Forum aimed to pilot the development of innovative partnership “business models” to implement ISID strategies. The main thrust behind the partnership business model is the mobilization of external partners and resources to extend the impact of UNIDO’s technical cooperation. UNIDO, through partnerships with governments, development finance institutions, UN agencies, multi-and bilateral development agencies, civil society and the private sector, will have a much larger impact on the ground when its technical expertise is applied according to the needs of the government and combined with the financing strength of financial institutions and the private sector.
The Third ISID forum will be held as a side event of the third International Conference on Financing for Development. It is co-organized with the Governments of Ethiopia and Senegal, and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). It will take place at the ECA’s Africa Hall.
The objective of the special event is to demonstrate concretely how multi-stakeholder partnerships can mobilize and up-scale financing for industrial infrastructure and industrial projects of various scales.
In order to operationalize the partnership approach, UNIDO developed a new type of assistance package for its Member States: the Programme for Country Partnership (PCP). The PCP is not a static template, but a custom-built partnership formula with each beneficiary country maintaining ownership of the complete process by defining its needs and required support, and finally ensuring the success of its delivery. Each PCP is aligned with the national industrialization priorities and national development plans of the beneficiary country. At the same time, PCP countries need to be fully aligned with ISID objectives and demonstrate full ownership of the Programme. They need to embed the PCP into their national resource mobilization strategies and remain open to partnerships to upscale technical cooperation services.
UNIDO's partnership approach calls for collective actions and catalyzes local and international development partners to provide the necessary support, knowledge and financial resources needed for ISID. Aside from its technical cooperation activities, UNIDO’s role is to bring the various actors together and coordinate partnership activities – under the leadership and ownership of the host government – to build a solid foundation for sustainable economic growth.
Through partnerships with governments, development finance institutions (DFIs), UN agencies, multilateral and bilateral development agencies, civil society and the private sector, UNIDO will have a much larger impact on the ground. The Organization’s technical expertise can be applied according to priorities set by governments of recipient countries, who will also benefit from additional resources leveraged from financial institutions and private industry.
