Industrial Development Cooperation

A/RES/65/175View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 24b Industrial development cooperation, published in 2011.

What other versions does this mandate have?

23 versions · 1979–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/222

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/79/222	Industrial development cooperation	5,956	76%Compare
2022	A/RES/77/180	Industrial development cooperation	5,419	80%Compare
2020	A/RES/75/231	Industrial development cooperation	4,738	87%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/247	Industrial development cooperation	4,298	68%Compare
2017	A/RES/71/242	Industrial development cooperation	3,640	46%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2012

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2012	A/67/329/Add.1	Composition of the Secretariat : gratis personnel, retired staff and consultants and individual contractors report of the Secretary-General : addendum		A/RES/57/243

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization;⁷

⁷See A/65/220.

Reaffirms the importance of the creation of wealth for poverty reduction and support for actions in favour of more vulnerable communities, especially with regard to women, through the development and strengthening of productive capacities in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, including through the development of the private sector and entrepreneurship, small and medium-sized enterprises and the promotion of agro-industry, enterprise upgrading, training, education and skills enhancement and an enabling environment for the transfer of technology on mutually agreed terms, the flow of investments and participation in global supply chains;

Also reaffirms the essential contribution of industrial development to the achievement of the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals, and that industrial development is a key driver of sustained, inclusive and equitable economic growth as well as sustainable development, poverty eradication, income generation, greater access to education and health care, and productive employment opportunities in developing countries;

Emphasizes the need to promote, in the context of industrial development, gender equality and the empowerment of women at all levels and in decision-making processes;

Stresses the importance of access to modern forms of energy and renewable energy, advanced energy technology, including cleaner fossil fuel technologies, and the promotion of energy efficiency for advancing industrial development and achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals;

Emphasizes that, in order to create the right environment for sustainable industrial development, the international community and the private sector should accelerate measures to facilitate the development, transfer and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies, on mutually agreed terms, to developing countries, as appropriate;

Also emphasizes that each country must take primary responsibility for its own industrial development and that national efforts should be supported by development partners, as appropriate, and need to be complemented by a rules-based multilateral trading system that facilitates trade and provides opportunities for developing countries to expand their export product mix, by strengthening their capacities and facilitating the structural transformation and diversification of their economies, which can help to promote economic growth and development;

Calls for the continuing use of official development assistance for sustainable industrial development, the achievement of greater efficiency and effectiveness of official development assistance resources and industrial development cooperation between developing countries and with countries with economies in transition;

Underlines the importance of mobilizing resources for sustainable industrial development at the country level;

Calls for the continuing use of all other resources, including private and public resources and foreign and domestic resources, for industrial development in developing countries and countries with economies in transition;

Underlines the importance of promoting the creation and development of small and medium-sized enterprises as a strategy to achieve industrial development, economic dynamism and poverty eradication, including through the mobilization of resources and measures to foster social inclusion and to enable cooperatives to effectively compete in their markets, on equal terms with other forms of enterprise, in order to strengthen their positive role and their ability to act as vehicles for building or increasing small and medium-sized enterprises;

Recognizes the key role of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in promoting sustainable industrial development and in industrial development cooperation, and welcomes its clear programmatic focus on three thematic priorities, namely, poverty reduction through productive activities, trade capacity-building, and environment and energy;

Calls upon the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to play an active role in implementing General Assembly resolution 62/208 of 19 December 2007 on the triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system and Assembly resolution 64/289 of 2 July 2010 on system-wide coherence;

Welcomes the increased cooperation of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the regional commissions, and invites the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to continue to build and strengthen its partnership with other United Nations organizations having complementary mandates and activities, as well as with other entities, including in the private sector, with a view to achieving greater effectiveness and development impact and promoting increased coherence within the United Nations system;

Notes the importance placed by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization on South-South cooperation and triangular cooperation, inter alia, through its centres for South-South industrial cooperation and through the promotion of various forms of public and private partnerships and the exchange of experience in private sector development, at the global, regional, subregional and country levels;

Welcomes the continued support of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development,⁸ the African Agribusiness and Agro-industries Development Initiative and other programmes of the African Union aimed at further strengthening the industrialization process in Africa through, inter alia, its role as the convener of the industry, trade and market access cluster of the regional consultation meetings led by the Economic Commission for Africa;

⁸A/57/304, annex.

Recognizes the importance of industrial development in post-conflict countries, particularly through employment-generating activities and energy access, and encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to assist in these efforts within its mandate, including, where applicable, by providing assistance in the implementation of the integrated peacebuilding strategies of the Peacebuilding Commission;

Encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to continue to assist developing countries and countries with economies in transition in participating in productive activities, including in the agro-industrial sector, as well as to strengthen their capacity to engage in international trade through small and medium-sized enterprise development and to help them to meet international product and process standards;

Also encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to continue to promote environmentally sound and sustainable production, including through its programmes on cleaner production, industrial water management, industrial energy efficiency and the utilization of efficient, modern and affordable forms of energy for productive use, especially in rural areas, as well as through cooperation with United Nations organizations and other organizations to promote global goals on access to modern forms of energy and on energy efficiency;

Further encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to strengthen its delivery of sustainable development and poverty eradication by assisting developing countries and countries with economies in transition, inter alia, by making use of its network of centres, in developing sustainable human and institutional capacities and enhancing international competitiveness;

Encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to strengthen its delivery of sustainable development and poverty eradication and to promote the development of competitive industries in the least developed countries, and in this regard encourages that Organization to assist such countries in building human and institutional capacities, enhancing international competitiveness, promoting investments and technology transfer on mutually agreed terms and developing the agro-industrial, renewable energy, energy efficiency and pharmaceutical sectors;

Also encourages the United Nations Industrial Development Organization to continue to develop its effectiveness in each of its four capacities of technical cooperation, research and analysis, normative assistance and global forum activities, with the aim of enhancing the quality of the services it provides to developing countries and countries with economies in transition;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session a report on the implementation of the present resolution.

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