During 2015, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) implemented gender policy update and new gender strategy. They are fully comply with the Organization’s documentsonstrategic planning and also six basic components of the system-wide action plan United NationsGender Equalityand empowering women(UN-SWAP).
This is stated in the annual report of UNIDO for 2015.
As an example of a new gender strategy implementation, the report provides review of the International conference «Women in The Industrial and Financial Sectors: Agenda for Ukraine» that was organized by Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production Centre Ukraine and International Finance Corporation (IFC). The Conference was held on May 21, 2015in Kyiv with representatives from UNIDO, Swiss Cooperation Office (SCO), The Embassy of Austria in Ukraine, National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, Chief Scientific Expert Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ukrainian enterprises, financial institutions, public organizations and foundations.
A book «Gender equality in economic sphere: Ukraine's commitment to EU»was presented during conference., dedicated to the area of gender equality in economic sphere в економічній сфері according to the requirements of European Community.
Read the full text of report here: http://www.unido.org/resources/publications/flagship-publications/annualreport/2015.html
On October 11-14, 2015 International Resource Forum-2015 took place in Davos (Switzerland). Forum was dedicated to the 20th anniversary from the start of implementation of programs and cleaner production in the world which coincides with the 20th anniversary since signing of the Agreement in the area of industrial development between the Government of Ukraine and UNIDO (December 8, 1995). The conference was attended by more than 600 delegates from 108 countries. The representatives of national cleaner production centers and organizations that implement and promote resource-efficient and cleaner production including the representatives from the Ukrainian RECP Centre attended Forum.
The EaP GREEN Demonstration Component will be presented on Tuesday, 13 October at 16:30 at the World Resources Forum 2015 Workshop on Circular Economy in Action - Experiences of RECPnet around the World organized in Davos, Switzerland from 12 to 16 October in conjunction with the Global Network Conference on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP). Presentation on EaP GREEN Program and the UNIDO component in particular is going to be made by Ms. Carolina Gonzalez, UNIDO Project Manager, and Mr. Malkhaz Adeishvili, National Coordinator of the project in Georgia. More information is available at http://www.wrforum.org/events/wrf-2015/
Experience from RECP Clubs implementation in all six countries of the EaP GREEN Demonstration component is going to be discussed on Thursday, 15 October at Parallel Session on Capacity Development for RECP Solutions - Methods and Tools for RECP.
RECP Centre prepared and publshed the book "Gender equality in economic sector: Ukraine's commitments to the EU" (compiled by Olena Uvarova, PhD). It is dedicated to gender equality issues in the economic sector in compliance with the European Community requirements.
The book containce the EU Directives on gender equality and equql opprtunities for men and women on the lbour market (in Ukrainian). Also, the selected decision of the Court of Justice are presented to illustrate the practical implementation of the Directives.
Director General's brochure "UNIDO - Introduction to Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development" is publicized. It contains the best industrial initiatives, aimed to gain the Millenium Development Goals, eliminating poverty, gender mainstreaming and implementing of the Post-2015 agenda.
The catalogue “Raising the Resource Efficiency of Companies and Enterprises Vinnitsya and Kyiv Regions: the RECPC Best Practices” is published and disseminated in January, 2015. It provides examples of successful implementation of RECP methodology at the enterprises and organisations in these two regions.
The catalogue has been disseminated among CEOs and engineers of the companies and enterprises, relevant non-profit organizations, technical specialists, and university students, who are committed to learn more about resource efficiency and cleaner production.
Press office of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
“Assistance provided to Ukraine by the UN agencies is an important tool that helps implementing reforms in our country”, - emphasized Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Igor Prasolov during the meeting with the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Ukraine Ms. Alessandra Tisot on the 10th of October 2013 in Kyiv.
24 October 2013 - UN Family in Ukraine and national partners marked ideals and values of the United Nations at the UN Day Reception.
The United Nations Country Team hosted a reception on the 24th of October 2013 to commemorate the UN day and launch the beginning of a UN week focusing on the theme of "The Future We Want".
Mr. LI Yong, Director General of UNIDO and Chairperson of the UNIDO-UNEP Green Industry Platform, recently gave an interview to Making It magazine about the concept of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development (ISID), which was the focus of the 15th Session of the UNIDO General Conference, held in December 2013.
In outlining his vision, LI emphasized the need for cleaner and more resource-efficient means of production: “For the meaning of ‘sustainable’ in this context, we are clear that industry generates the wealth needed to address critical social and humanitarian needs. At the same time, however, it is also clear that this growth must urgently be decoupled from increased raw material use and negative environmental impacts. As a key driver of this growth, industry must play its part by becoming significantly cleaner and vastly more energy and resource efficient, to guarantee the health, prosperity and security of our peoples.”
The world is on the threshold of the biggest business opportunity in a century, rivaling both the first Industrial Revolution, which transformed labor productivity, and the second,which mobilized unprecedented amounts of capital to build cities. The new revolution centers on the third primary factor of production: natural resources.
The revolution arrives not a moment too soon. After centuries of wasteful production and consumption practices – facilitated by ever-lower commodity prices that have declined by an average of 0.7% a year in peacetime over the past century – the world is in dire need of technologies that enable producers and consumers alike to do more with less.
Центр ресурсоефективного та чистого виробництва створено в рамках проекту UNIDO з розвитку ресурсоефективного та чистого виробництва в Україні. Проект фінансується Швейцарською Конфедерацією та Республікою Австрія.
