United
Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has committed to support
Nepal in its drive for inclusive and sustainable industrial development and
assured to engage with Nepal on fullest possible scale through various projects
to be worked out jointly through a programme mission to be fielded soon by
UNIDO.
Speaking
with trade secretary Krishna Gyawali, today morning, director general of UNIDO
Li Yong – at the sidelines of the general conference of UNIDO, promised to
continue the UNIDO support for Nepal.
Gyawali had
asked him to 'reactivate UNIDO’s support to Nepal which has gone slack for some
time'.
Gyawali has particularly
requested for UNIDO support in four areas enhancing industrial energy
efficiency in manufacturing industries that largely consume fossil fuel,
installing online industries registration system in order for moving them eventually to
‘single registration system’, statistical improvement in industry census and
developing Integrated Industrial Information Management System (IIIMS) in the ministry
and departments, and supporting trade facilitation and capacity development
measures through developing well-equipped, quality labs for product testing and
certification and creating accreditation body for accrediting those labs as per
the accepted international standard.
Li – a high-level
Chinese technocrat, who recently took over from Kandeh Yumkella of Sierra Leone
– also thanked the secretary for his active participation in the conference.
Gyawali also
met with the chief of the Technical Programme Development and Technical
Cooperation Division and acting managing director Philippe Scholtes and
discussed in detail about how and in which areas Nepal and UNIDO should restart
working together.
Meanwhile, Nepal
took part in the 15th general session of UNIDO in the Peruvian
capital of Lima on December 2-6.
Gyawali, who
headed the Nepali delegation, addressing the plenary session of the conference,
praised the current theme of the conference that focuses ‘sustainable and
inclusive industrial development’.
"The
organisation should support Least Developed Countries (LDCs) like Nepal through
'sufficient technical and knowledge intervention'," he said, stressing
that Nepal needs to undertake a two-prong strategy of industrial development
that appropriately focuses developing large-scale, growth-contributing
manufacturing industries to jump start the economy as well as Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) for poverty alleviation. "While the government
needs to work as promoter and facilitator for achieving the first task, it
needs to primarily invest its resources for meeting the other."
Gyawali, on
the occasion, also highlighted the importance of private sector development
through creating a common platform like Nepal Business Forum (NBF) that is
being successfully launched in Nepal.
Seeking the
organisation’s assistance in developing renewable energy resources for what he
termed 'greening the brown sector', meaning industries in modern times must be
clean, green and climate-smart, he suggested the need for developing and
disseminating the green technology that is affordable, cost-effective and
reliable.
The general conference is
the apex body of UNIDO and it convenes in every two years. The conference this
year also adopted Lima Declaration highlighting the agenda of industrial
development linking it with sustainable development goals beyond 2015.
1 comment:
great to hear that..UNIDO has done a great help to Nepal by providing support..
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