An Immersive Journey through Global Projects - UNIDO Conference Exhibition 2025

“Well, this exhibition—this UNIDO exhibition—has been conceptualized as an immersive journey where participants can learn about UNIDO's work and global impact. We showcase, for example, where we are present worldwide, and we focus on our priorities and global impact. For example, we want to showcase our work on three thematic priorities, from building sustainable supply chains to ending hunger and expanding clean energy and climate action. You can see here three alcoves where we feature several impactful projects from the organization. Here during the conference, we have launched the Fair Share programme, which is a very important initiative, but we also feature many other products that are very successful and can also be scaled up. The next alcove shows our work on ending hunger, which is a very important topic, and the next one is about clean energy access and climate action, which is of course extremely relevant, especially when we talk about industrialization. There is also a very important section in this exhibition dedicated to gender equality and women's empowerment, an important area of work for UNIDO. Women contribute to industry, they need to be part of the economy, and they are crucial in sustainable development. What you see here is just a sample of 60 women among the many women UNIDO is empowering. These 60 women are part of a campaign we are placing in communications. In total, we have 130 stories. For example, here we have Sonia Yanahi. She is an entrepreneur— a very successful one. She benefited from the EDIP programme, which is run by ITPO-Bahrain. Her dream was always to have a business in chocolate, and she established the first chocolate franchise in Bahrain. With UNIDO’s support, she is now getting a business plan approved. We are also supporting the investment approach for her to acquire a cocoa plant in Côte d'Ivoire, where she wants to employ local communities and ensure fair trade—fair share—and standards applied to the process of chocolate export. What you see here with a round shape—if you had a drone right now, you would see from above that it resembles the logo of the conference. It shows circularity; it shows three segments because this conference discusses mainly three topics: investment and partnerships, women’s empowerment, and youth as the generation of the future, and this resembles the logo of the conference. And maybe I can show you as well the area of funding partners, which is of course one of the most important areas of work for our organization. We see here China, Austria, Germany, Japan, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, but we also have important non-governmental donors, such as the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, and the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol.”


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