About UNIDO Pakistan

UNIDO’s Mission
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is the specialized agency of the United Nations dedicated to promoting Sustainable Industrial Development in developing economies. UNIDO acts as a catalyst to help generate national economic wealth and raise industrial capacity through our roles as a worldwide forum for industrial development and as a provider of technical cooperation services. As such, we harness the joint forces of government and private sector to foster competitive industrial production, develop international industrial partnerships and promote socially equitable and environmentally friendly industrial production.

UNIDO In Pakistan, An Introduction
Pakistan is one of the countries hosting a UNIDO Country Office. Established in 1968 and located in the capital city, Islamabad, the UNIDO Representative office in Pakistan has extensive and successful experience in industrial development cooperation. This experience has been gained through a continuous interaction with the public and private sectors, and by implementing over 50 projects covering many industrial sectors. A general feature of all these projects was and still is, that they are aimed at building indigenous (human and/or institutional) capacity to enhance the industrialization process of Pakistan in a sustainable way. As of today, strong needs for UNIDO’s services persist, which shows a number of on-going projects and an ever-increasing flow of new requests for UNIDO’s services from both public and private sector. Requested services concern technical assistance through projects, but also fellowships, industrial information on investment opportunities, new emerging technologies, statistics, potential industrial partners and so forth.. Since UNIDO is a technical implementing agency and as such does not administer project funds, granting these requests does not always lie within the direct control of UNIDO. However, UNIDO will always strive to provide (or facilitate the provision of) the requested services to the maximum of its abilities.
To ensure the most effective fulfillment of its mandate to support sustainable industrial development in Pakistan, UNIDO will have to focus its activities to the most pressing needs of Pakistan’s industrialization process. In this connection two focus programmed areas are being distinguished: Direct Technical Assistance and Investment & Technology Transfer.
Simultaneously, UNIDO Pakistan will have to adhere to a global restructuring process, which aims to enhance the overall effectiveness of UNIDO. One of the main features of this restructuring process, which has a direct bearing on all country offices, is the increased physical and programmatic emphasis on Regional & Inter-agency cooperation.