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Monday, 02 February 2015
UNIDO teams up with International Trade Centre to help developing countries in Africa and Asia
VIENNA, 3 February 2015 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) will intensify joint activities in support of developing countries in Africa and Asia.

This was discussed in Vienna during a meeting between LI Yong, the Director General of UNIDO, and Dorothy Tembo, ITC Deputy Executive Director, and at subsequent meetings with representatives of relevant Branches, and then formulated in a joint communique signed by Tembo and Taizo Nishikawa, the Deputy to the Director General of UNIDO.

The communique suggests that the two organizations will strengthen cooperation in the areas of trade capacity building, value chain development, investment and export promotion, industrial upgrading and enterprise competitiveness, as well as youth employment and entrepreneurship.

Enhanced collaboration is especially envisaged in Ethiopia and Senegal – within the framework of the Country Partnership Programmes aimed at fostering inclusive and sustainable industrial development – and in Sri Lanka, in the context of an initiative to strengthen the trade capacities and performance of the country’s SMEs.