Programme Planning and Partnerships Division - Selected Memorandums of Understanding

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Selected Memorandums of
Understanding between ESCAP
and its partners

Name of partner	Abbreviation	Date of signature
Regional and subregional organisations
Asian Development Bank	ADB	16 May 2004
Asian Institute of Technology	AIT	24 September 2009
Association of Southeast Asian Nations	ASEAN	2 January 2002
Department of Trade Negotiations of the Ministry of Commerce, Thailand and International Institute for Trade and Development, Thailand	DTN and ITD	30 March 2012
Economic Cooperation Organization	ECO	7 July 1993
Economic Cooperation Organization and the Islamic Development Bank	ECO and IDB	9 March 2009
Integration Committee of the Eurasian Economic Community (Secretariat of)	EurAsEC	23 May 2007
Forum Secretariat	FS	9 June 1994
Shanghai Cooperation Organization	SCO	21 August 2012
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation	SAARC	4 February 1994
South Pacific Commission	SPC	22 December 1994

Other UN Agencies
Department of International Economic and Social Affairs	DIESA	19 January 1989
Economic Commission for Europe and the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea	ECE and IFAS	15 October 2010
International Labour Organization	ILO	9 January 2009
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights	OHCHR	28 February 2001
United Nations Centre for Human Settlements	UN Habitat	26 February 2004
United Nations Development Programme (Strategic Compact for Collaboration between UNDP and the United Nations Regional Commissions)	UNDP	24 October 2007 (superseded by the MoU signed on 24 October 2007)
United Nations Development Programme (Cooperation Framework between the Regional Commissions and UNDP)	UNDP	24 October 2007
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and Urban Design Lab for Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University	ECLAC and UDL	26 January 2010
United Nations Environment Programme	UNEP	15 April 2009
United Nations Industrial Development Organization	UNIDO	4 November 2009
World Meteorological Organization	WMO	16 July 2003
World Trade Organization	WTO	2 March 2010 (amendment 4 signed on 12 Apr 12)

Donor Agencies
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency	JAXA	12 December 2008 (amendment signed on 7 December 2010)

Other International Agencies
Asian Institute for Transport Development	AITD	3 November 1997
Convention on Biological Diversity (Secretariat of)	CBD	25 October 2007
Global Green Growth Institute	GGGI	22 September 2010
Infrastructure Development Institute, Japan	IDI	1 October 2008
Intergovernmental Commission of the Transport Corridor Europe- the Caucasus- Asia on Transport Development	ICG TRACECA	16 June 2009