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for a sustainable future
O YEARS

tion that offers a range of analytical,
normative, convening and technical
cooperation services, as well as in-
dustrial policy advice.

Today, UNIDO is in full gear and
ready to use its vast experience and
expertise to assist countries around
the world in eradicating poverty and
achieving environmental sustain-
ability through industrial develop-
ment.

Over the last 50 years, UNIDO has cre-
In the course of 2016, we celebrated sistance package for its Member ated opportunities for and improved
the 50th anniversary of the United States: the Programme for Country the lives of millions of people, includ-
Nations Industrial Development Partnership, a custom-built formula ing women and young people. Today,
Organization (UNIDO). This anni- for each beneficiary country. The first we have a clear mandate and a direct
versary provides an opportunity to such programmes were launched in responsibility for the achievement of
reflect on the past and to chart a new Ethiopia and Senegal, and today a the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable De-
path for a sustainable future. Today, Programme for Country Partnership velopment through inclusive and sus-
as never before, we are fully commit- is successfully developing in Peru. tainable industrialization, as reflected
ted to the job we started five decades Other Member States are eager to in Sustainable Development Goal 9.
ago: to put an end to poverty once have the same approach implement- I am confident that together -- with
and for all. ed in their country. the continued support of our Member
States and donors -- we will realise our
Looking back, we recall that on 17 Looking forward, we feel confident, dream of a sustainable future.
November 1966 UNIDO was estab- knowing that UNIDO has a proven
lished as a special organ of the United track record and a global reputation LI YONG
Nations General Assembly to assist, as a robust and pertinent organiza- UNIDO Director General
promote and accelerate the indus-
trialization of developing countries,
with a particular emphasis on man-
ufacturing. In 1985, the Organiza-
tion was converted into a specialized
agency. In 2013, at our fifteenth Gen-
eral Conference, the Lima Declara-
tion defined UNIDO's new mission:
to promote and accelerate inclusive
and sustainable industrial develop-
ment in developing countries and
economies in transition.

As a first step to realise this approach,
UNIDO developed a new type of as-

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