About UNIDO’s work in Laboratory Infrastructure Development UNIDO is a specialized agency of the United Nations with a unique mandate to promote, dynamize and accelerate industrial development. UNIDO’s mandate is reflected in Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9: “Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”, but its activities contribute to all the SDGs.

For more than 40 years, UNIDO has been the largest multilateral player in quality infrastructure development and a preferred partner of many developing countries. UNIDO’s technical cooperation projects span in Asia, African, Europe and Latin America, aiming to support its Member States in developing upgrading their national and regional quality infrastructure systems for economic prosperity, environment protection and public well-being.

Resulting from its technical cooperation, UNIDO has developed and modernized over 400 laboratories worldwide through various interventions at policy, institutional and technical levels. Noting that usually policy intervention is necessary for sustainable transformation, UNIDO developed a publication”LABORATORY POLICY-A GUIDE TO DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION” in collaboration with INetQI, a network of 15 international organizations promoting quality infrastructure development. The guide aims to assist developing countries in steering their laboratory infrastructure development meeting national development strategies and market needs, given that usually they face several technical and financial constraints.