UNIDO’s Director Basic Gerd Müller visited the Individuals’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to increase the cooperation between UNIDO and Algeria with a particular deal with decarbonization, inexperienced hydrogen, round economic system, meals safety, entrepreneurship, abilities growth and South-South cooperation.
The Director Basic met with the President of the Individuals’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on the Presidential Palace of El Mouradia in Algiers, and mentioned methods to strengthen UNIDO-Algeria cooperation and to collectively contribute to advance industrial growth in Africa.
Müller counseled the reforms launched by the President by way of his nationwide motion plan 2020-2024, pressured Algeria’s main function within the vitality sector and strategic significance for Africa: “Algeria just isn’t solely the biggest nation in Africa, but additionally one in all its main economies with nice potential for sustainable industrialization, and an vital companion for different African international locations, Europe and the world. That is the start of a brand new high quality of cooperation between UNIDO and Algeria. We are going to enhance our efforts to assist financial diversification, native worth addition in strategic sectors and creating jobs for the massive younger inhabitants, in addition to supporting regional commerce integration through the African Continental Free Commerce Space.”
The Director Basic additionally met with Ahmed Attaf, Minister of International Affairs, who expressed his dedication to UNIDO’s mandate and pressured that industrial growth is important to driving financial progress and job creation in Africa. Müller highlighted Algeria’s strategic function for your complete African continent in vitality entry and regional integration and pressured that UNIDO will enhance its assist to assist the nation notice its full potential as a task mannequin for different African international locations by way of native processing. Müller and Attaf additionally mentioned the necessity to mobilize extra investments for sustainable industrial growth in Africa. UNIDO is organizing within the fourth quarter of 2024 two high-level conferences devoted to mobilizing such investments. The Director Basic invited the Minister to take part in these conferences, noting that Algeria can operate as a bridge to different African international locations for investments, expertise and data switch.
A joint declaration signed between the Director Basic and Ali Aoun, Minister of Business and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing underscored the dedication to increase the cooperation between UNIDO and Algeria.
Ali Aoun stated: ”UNIDO interventions are very profitable. We wish to increase our cooperation with the Group and profit from its expertise and experience to speed up the sustainable industrial growth”.
Director Basic Müller thanked the Minister for the continued profitable cooperation and highlighted that the joint declaration provides a brand new dynamism to the cooperation: “We are going to provoke new tasks in precedence areas for Algeria together with the decarbonization of heavily-emitting sectors equivalent to cement and the modernization of infrastructure, vocational coaching, new applied sciences and the native pharmaceutical business.”
Power was additionally an vital matter of the Director Basic’s mission to Algeria. He was briefed by Mohamed Arkab, Minister of Power and Mining, on Algeria’s plans to speed up its vitality transition and enhance the share of renewable vitality in its vitality combine. UNIDO is already supporting the nation’s efforts to change into a key participant in inexperienced hydrogen, and Müller and Arkab furthermore mentioned increasing UNIDO’s challenge portfolio to assist Algeria enhance native worth addition of crucial minerals for the worldwide vitality transition, and to work collectively through South-South cooperation to assist vitality entry all through Africa
Müller’s assembly with Fazia Dahlab, Minister of Setting and Renewable Power, centered on increasing UNIDO’s current challenge portfolio with concrete new tasks in cleantech, round economic system, inexperienced hydrogen and for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol. Minister Dahlab counseled the continued cooperation with UNIDO specifically for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol and the ECOVERTEC challenge, funded by the EU, which is introducing useful resource effectivity, cleaner manufacturing in addition to new clear applied sciences to greater than 250 industries within the nation.
Throughout his go to to Algeria Enterprise, the primary state-owned begin up for entrepreneurs and innovation, along with Yacine Oualid, Minister of Data Financial system, Begin-ups and Micro-enterprises, Director Basic Müller agreed to spice up cooperation and promote clear tech start-ups, AI, round economic system and innovation to create jobs for youth.
Müller additionally held a gathering with Toufik Bouras, Appearing Director Basic of the Algerian Company for Worldwide Cooperation in Solidarity (AACISD). Discussions centered on potential cooperation between UNIDO and AACISD to implement tasks in African international locations, notably LDCs, with a deal with capability constructing andvocational coaching, local weather resilience and safeguarding the surroundings
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of United Nations Industrial Growth Group (UNIDO).