UNDP’s Sahel Offer – A Regeneration – is a $3.6 billion programme, which focuses on three main areas Governance, Energy and Youth, which are the collective of what will transform and sustain prosperity in the Sahel. The Offer will leverage UNDP’s new capacities in partnership with UN sister agencies – and roll out transformative interventions to break cycles of need.

The Sahel Offer focuses, among others, on young people because they hold the key to transformative development in the Sahel. UNDP already collaborates with the African Union on the YouthConnektAfrica Initiative, which is helping to open-up new opportunities for young people across the Continent. And our partnership with the Tony Elumelu Foundation to implement the Sahel Youth Entrepreneurship Programme aims to train, mentor, and financially support 100,000 young entrepreneurs. Such support is helping to ensure that young people are equipped with the skills they need for the jobs of today, and of the future. Moreover, the UNDP Accelerator Labs network, active in all ten countries of the region, will continue to surface and scale-up much-needed local development solutions.