Actions undertaken included Apprenticeship investments Increased funding of apprenticeships to 2007 2008 to support increased participation Investments in a pre apprenticeship training initiative to help prepare individuals for careers in the skilled trades and Investments in the Apprenticeship Enhancement Fund Program, which provides funding to the Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology, to acquire up to date equipment, update facilities and to support increased apprenticeship placements.

An industrial capacity building programme was in preparation.

The Women in Skilled Trades program provides pre apprenticeship training geared to increase the number of women qualified for high demand skilled trades and technology jobs.

The number of indigenous women completing new apprenticeships has increased by 19 per cent in the 12 months to March 2005 (to 1,580) (source NCVER statistics collection).

(c) The right to free choice of profession and employment, the right to promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service and the right to receive vocational training and retraining, including apprenticeships, advanced vocational training and recurrent training

The programme review on industrial statistics has provided a broad overview of the industrial statistical system, highlighting its current practices, progress and challenges.

(c) The right to free choice of profession and employment, the right to promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service and the right to receive vocational training and retraining, including apprenticeships, advanced vocational training and recurrent training

The right to free choice of profession and employment, the right to promotion, job security and all benefits and conditions of service and the right to receive vocational training and retraining, including apprenticeships, advanced vocational training and recurrent training.

UNIDO is in the process of shifting its INDSTAT database series and industrial statistics database to a client server platform.

UNIDO UNEP cleaner production centres

The number of women completing new apprenticeships increased by 10 per cent in the 12 months to March 2005 (to 62,100, compared with 56,300 in the 12 months to March 2004).

The UNIDO cleaner production programme focuses on reconciling industrial development and environmental concerns.

In addition, please provide information on any evaluation of the National Women's Vocational and Educational Training Strategy (1996) and the New Apprenticeship Reforms (paras. 223 224), focusing on how indigenous women have benefited from these programmes.

Parents are obliged to have their children educated from the ages of 5 to 16 (with legislation passed to raise this to 18), and can continue education free of charge in the form of A Levels, vocational training or apprenticeship to age 18.

In addition, please provide information on any evaluation of the National Women's Vocational and Educational Training Strategy (1996) and the New Apprenticeship Reforms (paras. 223 224), focusing on how indigenous women have benefited from these programmes.

It includes the implementation of the MTPF research programme and the production of the series of Industrial Development Reports.

This assistance is delivered primarily through four implementing agencies (UNEP, UNDP, UNIDO and the World Bank) and bilateral agencies.

1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa A 57 175.

A 10 year industrial policy program called Pro álcool was crucial in the development of the industry.

The Kingdom of Swaziland believes that the Doha Development Agenda needs to be seriously advanced, with industrialized countries addressing the needs of developing countries.

The national cleaner production centre director and local UNIDO UNEP representatives are included.

They are the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank).

1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary General on the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (1993 2002) A 56 139.

The expert group meeting endorsed the view that the revision on industrial statistics should be undertaken within a broad economic statistics programme.

This Programme covers the activities of Service Module 1 Industrial Governance and Statistics, and of the research programme for the medium term programme framework, 2004 2007 (MTPF).

With funding for 2004 2005, 104 women will be enrolled in six pre apprenticeship training programs, including specialized programs for Aboriginal women.

14. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty seventh session under an item entitled United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa , a sub item entitled Implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa

The Brazilian National Economic and Social Development Bank had begun implementation of a programme for the modernization of industrial machinery in SMEs, to which funds totalling 900 million had been allocated.

The report has been included in the JIU programme of work on the basis of formal proposals by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and UNIDO.

Within the framework of the collaboration between UNODC and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), a programme of international surveys on the impact of crime and corruption on businesses and industries was initiated.

UNDP, WFP, UNOPS and UNIDO procure mostly for their field projects.

16. Also welcomes the focus of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization both on the strengthening of industrial capacities and on cleaner and sustainable industrial development, in the context of its new programme orientation, as well as its cooperation with the relevant bodies and organizations of the United Nations system, in particular the United Nations Environment Programme

1 This programme review on industrial statistics focuses on the manufacturing industry although, conventionally, industrial statistics comprise mining and quarrying, manufacturing, gas, water and electricity and construction, as defined by ISIC, Rev.3.1.

For instance, at UNIDO, three databases on industrial statistics in the INDSTAT series are maintained.

The UNIDO UNEP National Cleaner Production Centre Programme aims at building national cleaner production capacities, fostering dialogue between industry and Government and enhancing investments for transfer and development of environmentally sound technologies.

Additional information would be sought from Chile, China, Finland, Japan, Kenya, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

Also, the Integrated Industrial Capital Allowance (IICA) allows companies to claim capital allowances for approved expenditure on plant and equipment used in overseas subsidiaries.

In Lithuania, a cleaner production programme is being implemented with support from the Norwegian Government to improve environmental performance, competitiveness and regulatory compliance of industry.

Industrial Strength Africa

Making Industrial Policy Work

The Next Industrial Revolution

The Return of Industrial Policy

Existing standards on industrial statistics have addressed industrial activities in terms of the creation of economic value added.

Greening the New Industrial Revolution

National security and industrial secrets