Abstract

This chapter discusses the history and structure of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The origins of UNIDO can be traced to a series of studies on a program of rapid industrialization of developing States that the UN Secretariat carried out during the early 1950s at the request of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, which had been stimulated by a resolution that the United Nations General Assembly adopted in 1951 at its sixth session. The studies culminated in a program of work on industrialization and productivity prepared by the United Nations Secretary General in 1956, and endorsed the next year by ECOSOC and the General Assembly. The basic instrument of the original UNIDO is section II of UN General Assembly Resolution 2152 of November 17, 1966, which specifies the purpose, functions, organs, and financial arrangements of UNIDO and the methods of its interaction with other organs and organizations. It also makes transitional arrangements regarding the earlier UN organs active in this field and prescriptions for future institutional relations.

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