UNIDO joins the response efforts of the international community, including the G20, and the United Nations system in particular. As a specialized agency of the UN system, UNIDO’s mandate is to promote inclusive and sustainable industrial development. UNIDO’s response framework is to prepare and contain, respond and adapt, and recover and transform, taking into account that we are not an organization mandated to provide humanitarian or emergency response.

Our approach over the next 12 to 18 months is based on mutually inclusive pillars, namely partnerships to accelerate the global response, integrated service packages tailored to each Member State’s particular situation and needs, capacity building and knowledge exchange based on lessons learned, best practices and best available technologies. These packages aim at supporting countries with comprehensive socio-economic recovery approaches, geared towards ISID results at scale.

https://www.unido.org/sites/default/files/files/2020-05/UNIDO_COVID19_External_Position_Paper.pdf