Harnessing innovation in the global fight against COVID-19
Apr-29-2020
The global response to the challenges and the adverse social, economic and financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic require innovative ideas and technologies. Developing countries and economies in tr...
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Using high-tech in the fight against COVID-19
Apr-28-2020
Amid the COVID-19 period, new technologies and products spring up in China, which have made unique contributions to the fight against the pandemic. Under the stringent lockdown measures in Wuhan and o...
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Standards play an important role in mitigating the effects of the coronavirus pandemic
Apr-27-2020
As in many industrial sectors, the elaboration of standards and quality infrastructure is crucial for maintaining the highest quality of medical products and services. Failure to observe rules on metr...
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Tajik textile enterprises diversify production to help prevent the spread of COVID-19
Apr-24-2020
As of 14 April, with the authorities having taken drastic measures to help keep the coronavirus at bay, Tajikistan had no confirmed COVID-19 cases. To further help avoid a health crisis, several natio...
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UNIDO Special Webinar Series: Upcoming Events
Apr-24-2020
UNIDO’s Department of Trade, Investment and Innovation (TII) announces new events within its special series of webinars on “Quality and Standards in the fight against COVID-19”, hosted as part of the ...
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Webinar discusses relevance of standards and testing in fighting COVID-19
Apr-21-2020
The first ever virtual panel organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), entitled ‘Standards and Testing in the Fight Against COVID-19’, was a full success. The w...
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Strengthening regional accreditation in Africa
Apr-20-2020
The SADC Regional Laboratory Association (SRLA), which is a “Non Profit Company” (NPC) whose goal is to improve the reliability of testing and calibration results supplied by conformity assessment bod...
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Webinars on the UNIDO guidelines for re-activation of the Colombian auto industry
Apr-16-2020
This webinar series introduce the UNIDO guidelines developed for the Colombian automotive industry to ensure that companies, which will restart production, do so by applying all possible measures...
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Webinar on organizational resilience (ISO 2231:2017) in times of COVID-19
Apr-16-2020
In the first of an interactive webinar series, titled “Organizational Resilience in times of COVID-19”, Mr. Osama Elmeligy, UNIDO international expert in standards and integrated management systems, p...
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TRADE, INVESTMENT AND INNOVATION TRAINING ACADEMY
Apr-14-2020
The spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the unpredictable developments certainly present special challenges to all of us. At the same time, modern technologies enable us to stay occ...
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STAY HOME, STAY SAFE and STAY MOTIVATED!
Apr-11-2020
Keeping team members motivated amid unprecedented times such as the COVID-19 crisis is indeed a challenge. For example, people may miss the joy of problem-solving with a colleague, or the ease of maki...
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QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19
Apr-09-2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is primarily a global health crisis, but it also has far-reaching economic consequences. Worldwide, it is already disrupting millions of people’s livelihoods, with disproportiona...
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