INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is the specialised agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalisation and environmental sustainability. For more info, please visit www.ctc-n.org and www.unido.org.
“Empowering women is empowering humanity. Gender equality and women’s empowerment is central to UNIDO’s work as it is not only a matter of human rights, but also a precondition for sustainable development and economic growth, which are drivers of poverty reduction and social integration. When women and men are more equal, economies grow faster, more people are lifted out of poverty and the overall well-being of societies is enhanced.”
GENDER EQUALITY The importance of gender equality and women’s empowerment, particularly women’s economic empowerment, is at the core of UNIDO’s mandate. Enhancing the role of women as drivers of poverty reduction, promoting female investors and entrepreneurs, and recognising the link between gender equality and safeguarding the environment all promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization.
Li Yong, UNIDO Director General, International Gender Champion
TECHNOLOGY MATCHMAKER IN COPENHAGEN UNIDO, together with UN Environment, hosts the Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN), located in Copenhagen’s UN City. The CTCN promotes the accelerated development and transfer of climate technologies for energy-efficient, low-carbon and climate-resilient development. The centre utilises the expertise of a network of nearly 400 technology companies and organisations around the world to deliver technology solutions at the request of developing countries in sectors ranging from agriculture and energy to industry and transportation. The CTCN technology platform (www.ctc-n.org) provides descriptions of hundreds of clean technologies along with examples of their use around the world. It also offers over 14,000 other technology publications and webinars organised by country and technology sector, including a Gender and Technology hub.
MIGRATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL ACTIVITIES IOM’s mission and vision are reflected in our work with the complex and ever-changing migration landscape in the world of today. IOM delivers its services to migrants and governments through a diverse range of programmes and activities such as migration policy and governance, resettlement, integration, labour migration, counter-trafficking, Assisted Voluntary Returns, and many more. IOM activities world-wide aim to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Central African Republic - N’dele. Socio-cultural activities organised by IOM in Djamassinda as a part of social cohesion initiatives. Photo: Amanda Nero, IOM
IOM will be the co-ordinator of the UN Network on Migration to be established in connection with the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in December 2018.
MISSION AND VISION The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the UN Migration Agency.
Locally and globally, through logistic assistance and humanitarian aid delivered by more than 9,000 staff in over 100 countries, IOM tracks, protects and provides direct assistance to millions of migrants every year.
IOM works with its partners to advance the understanding of migration issues, to encourage social and economic development through migration, and to uphold the dignity and well-being of migrants.
IOM is an organisation with a high operational capacity, delivering in close proximity to the migrants, governments and partners we work with around the globe.
IOM’s vision is for a world in which migration is driven by choice and not by desperate necessity. Where migration is managed in a safe, smart and orderly manner, and where migrants’ lives and rights are protected.
IOM AT UN CITY The IOM office in Denmark was opened in 2009. In Denmark, IOM works with migrants in partnership with Danish authorities and other actors.