Mar-04-2020
The Global Quality and Standards Programme (GQSP) is an innovative programme that helps small producers to enhance the quality of their products, meet international standards and export right around t...
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Mar-02-2020
Since early 2017 UNIDO has been collaborating with the West African Health Organization (WAHO) to support the upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry in the ECOWAS region. One key result of this coll...
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Feb-28-2020
The twenty-first century has presented mankind with a number of major challenges that threaten the sustainable development of civilization. In order to overcome these challenges, new approaches to dev...
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Feb-26-2020
Bush encroachment is a serious problem in Namibia, it hampers agricultural productivity and therewith threatens the livelihood of the local population. Currently, 26-30 million hectares of Namibian ra...
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Feb-24-2020
What do SMEs in emerging economies, and countries in transition have to do in order to compete in a global marketplace? They have to significantly improve their approach to manufacturing. UNIDO introd...
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Feb-17-2020
Industrial processes are exposed to dangers such as natural hazards, political instability (sabotage), and cyber-attacks. These can cause massive damage to industry, workers and the environment. Inter...
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Feb-11-2020
The official website of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme Ghana (WACOMP Ghana) as well as its first newsletter edition have been released! UNIDO is implementing this programme within the f...
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Jan-23-2020
Typical food products or “terroir products” are deeply rooted in their territory of origin, which is granting them unique characteristics. Over the past decade, UNIDO has been working on mapping, bran...
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Jan-21-2020
UNIDO launched a new publication entitled, “Rebooting Quality Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future”. The publication conveys a call for action for rethinking and adapting QIs to achieve SDGs (Plane...
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Jan-08-2020
UNIDO has published a new edition of the Agro-Industry Investment Opportunities Directory: Ethiopia. It features summaries of 126 investment opportunities in Ethiopia’s agro-industrial sectors. It is ...
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Dec-20-2019
UNIDO is providing training in the field of agro-processing, food safety and entrepreneurship development to women and young internally displaced persons (IDPs) in South Sudan through the project, “En...
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Dec-19-2019
Since 2001, the UEMOA and ECOWAS Commissions trusted UNIDO, through Quality Programmes financed by the European Union, to support the growth of local accreditation bodies (AB) in West Africa. One of t...
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