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at integrating good governance in industrial development to ultimately strengthen inclusive
and sustainable industrial development based on human rights principles, such as gender
equality and the empowerment of women, and to operationalize the Sustainable
Development Goals.
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The Strategic Industrial Intelligence and Governance programme exemplified these
efforts by providing States with advice, capacity-building and facilitation services on
industrial policymaking. The programme has resulted in a network of intelligence
competitiveness units that use UNIDO methodologies and standard publications to drive the
industrial policy debate at the global level.
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Another example was the Country Partnership Programme, which provided support
by aligning national industrialization priorities and development plans supporting critical
capacity-building and technology transfer and conducting feasibility studies for industrial
projects. Technology and skill-upgrading programmes and environmental sustainability
interventions have been found to be essential to ensure adequate and equitable wage levels
and benefits.
30.
Through National Cleaner Production Centres, UNIDO, together with the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), provides support for professionalization and
institutionalization, as well as services to businesses, Governments and other national
stakeholders for the promotion and implementation of resource efficient and cleaner
production methods, practices, technologies and policies. The centres are expected to
become increasingly independent of UNIDO-UNEP funding and support, aiming to provide
nationally recognized organizations with managerial, administrative and financial
independence and organizational and institutional stability and sustainability.
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United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime
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UNODC works in four areas relevant to the role of good governance in the
promotion and protection of human rights: (a) crime prevention and criminal justice; (b)
anti-corruption; (c) terrorism prevention; and (d) combating organized crime and human
trafficking.
32.
UNODC contributes to good governance and the rule of law by supporting fair,
effective and humane criminal justice systems that are transparent, provide for oversight
and accountability, and reduce impunity.
33.
By focusing on crime prevention, UNODC supports efforts to reduce all forms of
violence and related death rates everywhere. In particular, it is increasing its efforts to assist
States in the prevention of youth crime by developing the life skills of marginalized and atrisk youth. Together with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), UNODC is
implementing a global programme on violence against children. UNODC has also
supported legislative development and training in the area of juvenile justice. It uses
international standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice to develop
effective, accountable and transparent institutions within the criminal justice sector.
UNODC is prioritizing activities addressing global prison challenges in order to reduce the
scope of imprisonment, improve prison management and prison conditions, and to support
the social reintegration of offenders upon release.
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UNODC also promotes gender equality in criminal justice systems through work on
preventing and responding to violence against women. In 2015, under the lead of UNODC,
a United Nations inter-agency task force finalized a set of integrated technical guidance
notes on transnational organized crime and security sector reform, with the aim of
providing practitioners with effective recommendations in the implementation of security
sector reform.
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