UNIDO INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION UNIDO NETWORK OF INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION OFFICES OFFICE (ITPO) in GERMANY GERMANY PROGRESS REPORT AS OF 31.12.2017 1 1 UNIDO INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION UNIDO NETWORK OF INVESTMENT AND TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION OFFICES OFFICE (ITPO) in GERMANY GERMANY PROGRESS REPORT AS OF 31.12.2017 4 4 Foreword Dear Stakeholders, and job creation has been clearly established in many national development strategies. It is my great pleasure to greet you as the Head of UNIDO The worldwide dimension of environmental problems has ITPO Germany, since my appointment in April 2017 and the become, in the meantime, recognized and undisputed. inauguration of the Office in May 2017. The incentives for cooperation in terms of environmental The ITPO was established with the support of the Federal protection, as well as in terms of economic developments, Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the will grow in the coming years. Worldwide, new environmental Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ITPO Germany, located on awareness has taken root, with new environmental standards the UN-Campus in Bonn, was founded under an agreement being established almost daily, not only in industrialized concluded between UNIDO and the Government of Germany countries, but also in many developing nations as well. and is one of nine ITPOs worldwide. Environmental protection laws, which companies have ignored for years, are being enforced more stringently. Since the inception phase began, many contacts have been Governments are coming to the realization that pollution, established by ITPO Germany with German SMEs and relevant deforestation and other byproducts of unregulated economic business and industrial associations. The Office also helped activity are creating more problems than progress. As with organize a Sino-German Forum on “New partnerships for most problems, the best solution is prevention. sustainable development: Sino-German trilateral and private sector cooperation”. Although three decades of rapid industrialization and growth have left many countries with huge pollution problems, they For 2017 and the following years, Germany has placed a also have substantial cash reserves to invest in solutions. special focus on Africa. One priority on the Agenda for the Environmental restrictions and costs are inevitable. G20 Presidency was a “Compact with Africa”. The Federal Companies that are not prepared will not be able to meet Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, Mr. these regulations and their businesses will suffer. But Gerd Mueller, has presented a proposal: the “Marshall often, firms are too small to invest in the anti-pollution Plan with Africa”, which provides a new outline for an measures now required. We must address the question integrated overall approach to Germany’s cooperation with of how industrialized countries can best help developing the continent. The document presents the way forward in countries cope with their own environmental problems. Such developing this new partnership – politically, culturally, assistance must be aimed at supporting self-help efforts by economically and in terms of peace and security. the developing world to strike a balance between economic Africa is a continent of opportunity and growth. By 2035, development and environmental protection. However, Africa will have the largest potential workforce in the world. developing countries are expected to have difficulties As many as 400 million Africans are already part of the dealing with these problems – difficulties that may be middle-class. However, Germany has 400,000 companies, more serious than those encountered by industrial nations. and less than 1,000 of them are active in Africa! Germany’s It is essential that environment-related aid be included in trade with the African continent only accounts for two per economic assistance and industrialization support. It is very cent of foreign trade. Direct investment on a larger scale only important that environmental aid projects be executed in goes to 13 countries. This accounts for about one per cent such a way that they produce substantive results. of German foreign direct investment. That has to change! Companies in Germany and other industrialized countries We need a paradigm shift, a new dimension of cooperation can provide much-needed expertise and technology to firms – the African Union has already realized this. In its Agenda in developing countries to tackle some of these issues. 2063, it has presented an ambitious vision: good governance, The prevention of air pollution, the treatment of drinking efforts against corruption, investment in education, and water, the purification of waste water, the protection of empowerment of women. water, the sanitation of the soil, the eradication of waste, During the coming years, ITPO Germany will encourage noise abatement, rational and environmentally conciliatory German companies to actively participate in sharing their generation of energy alternative technologies, measuring and technologies and processes to improve the know-how and regulating technology for environmental protection system, learning capabilities of industrialists in Africa, within the nature conservation, environmental consultation – these are context of the “Compact with Africa”. Africa needs jobs for its the spheres of business and experience of the numerous, lager- young generation. And for their jobs, we need more private sized, medium-sized and small-sized enterprises of Germany. investments. German technologies for preventing new pollution and cleaning up existing problems could certainly be of great use. Goal 9 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – a key priority of UNIDO and of ITPO Germany – recognizes the My main duty as Head of ITPO Germany is to capitalize on centrality of industrialization for development. For many UNIDO’s worldwide Network of ITPOs to open up opportunities in Asia, Africa and Latin America, industrial policies and for small-and medium-sized companies in Germany, helping strategies play a key role in their long term visions to become them to find potential partners in developing countries and emerging economies and tackle the creation of decent jobs emerging countries. and shared prosperity. The linkage between Industrialization Peter Failer 5 5 Disclaimer This document has been produced without formal United Nations editing. 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CONTENTS UNIDO and ITPO Germany UNIDO AT A GLANCE ............................................................................................ 9 1 UNIDO NETWORK OF ITPOS ................................................................................... 10 BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................... 12 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ITPO ............................................................................... 14 STAFFING ........................................................................................................... 14 HIGHLIGHTS 2017 ........................................................................16 2 34 3 WAY FORWARD ............................................................................ 33 UNIDO and 1 ITPO Germany 8 8 UNIDO at a glance The United Nations Industrial Development Organization Each of these programmatic fields of activity contains a (UNIDO) is the specialized agency of the United Nations number of individual programmes, which are implemented in that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, a holistic manner to achieve effective outcomes and impacts inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. through UNIDO’s four enabling functions: The mission of UNIDO, as described in the Lima Declaration adopted at the fifteenth session of the UNIDO General Conference in 2013, is to promote and accelerate inclusive (i) technical cooperation; and sustainable industrial development (ISID) in Member States. The relevance of ISID as an integrated approach to all three pillars of sustainable development is recognized by the (ii) analytical and research functions and policy recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development advisory services; and the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will frame United Nations and country efforts towards sustainable development in the next fifteen years. UNIDO’s mandate is fully recognized in SDG-9, which calls to “Build (iii) normative functions and standards and resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable quality-related activities; and industrialization and foster innovation.”