Accelerating the Ratification and Domestication of African Union Treaties

The joint AU-UNDP project, ‘Accelerating the Ratification and Domestication of African Union Treaties’, is a three-year multi-country and regional initiative supported by the Government of Sweden. This project is anchored in UNDP’s Regional...

Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Africa

This project contributes to closing gender gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa through supporting the AU and RECs to promote women leadership, representation and participation in decision making, promote women’s economic empowerment, and improve responses...

Africa Borderlands Centre

The Africa Borderlands Centre aims to ensure a coordinated and sustainable approach to borderlands development efforts, promote innovative borderlands programmes in Africa designed through consultative processes, and provide technical support to new...

Africa Election Fund

The Africa Election Fund, launched by the GFFO and UNDP, aims to strengthen democracy in Africa through innovative and timely support to electoral processes. With an initial commitment of €3 million, the fund supports early phases of electoral...

Africa Facility for Inclusive Political Transitions

The Africa Facility to Support Inclusive Transitions (AFSIT) is a collaborative initiative by the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide integrated programmatic support to countries in...

Africa’s Emergence: Promoting structural economic transformation and human development

The International Conference on the Emergence of Africa (ICAE) was launched in this context as a platform to discuss the structural changes taking place in the continent and how to accelerate them in an inclusive and sustainable way. Its first...

African Mining Governance Project

This project intends to help with transparency, equity and optimal development of mineral resources to underpin broad-based sustainable growth and socioeconomic development in Africa. It also promotes a sustainable and well-governed minerals sector...

African Mining Governance Project

The project is written in collaboration with its major implementing partner, the African Union Commission (AUC). It aims to support member states through: 1) strengthening the capacity of the AU to advance the African Mining Vision (AMV) agenda; 2)...

African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme

The African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme is a partnership between the African Union Commission (AUC) and UNDP. The Programme seeks to build a new generation of young African women leaders and experts to serve Africa and the world in...

Conflict Prevention and Early Action (Support to the AUC)

Conflict/peacebuilding - AU support

​​​​​​This project aims to help strengthen the existing capacities of AU member states and institutions to analyses, anticipate, prevent and respond to conflicts across the continent. It is aligned with the joint operating framework of...

COVID-19 Response

UNDP is working with the AU and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in its overall response to COVID-19 to support the AU and RECs in implementing activities across five programmatic strands: regional coordination and...

Digital Transformation - Africa Leading 4IR

The AL4IR initiative aspires to influence the development and use of technology based on a sound, inclusive and resilient foundation. As the youngest continent globally, Africa’s youth are drivers and creators of innovations and, as a result,...

Empowering West African Women Small and Medium Enterprises in Rice Value Chains (EMASWE)

This 7 months Project Initiation Plan aims to lay the groundwork for a full-fledged UNDP/IsDB initiative entitled “Empowering West African Women Small and Medium Enterprises in Rice Value Chains (EWASME) 2022-2025 in Guinea, Niger, Senegal and...

Energy4Sahel Project

Engagement and Initiations

Governance and Peacebuilding Framework for Africa

Supporting various meeting platforms; the Sahel project and the the new initiative of supporting inclusive transitions.

Great Lakes Region

This project is designed to address the underlying governance gaps related to coordinating regional responses to natural resource management in the Lake Victoria basin. It aims to investigate the opportunities for unlocking domestic infrastructure...

Human Mobility

Implementation of the Regional Programme Document for Africa

The implementation of the Regional Programme requires a robust roll out and strengthened oversight of the Regional Programme for Africa Document (RPD) 2022-2025, learning and applying key lessons from implementation of RPD (2017-2021), and contribute...

Initiating Solar for Health Programme

Solar for Health Programme: Enabling the provision of sustainable low-carbon energy services to public health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa

Integrated Approach Pilot Programme for Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa (IFAD/GEF)

The main objective of the Integrated Approach Programme (IAP) on Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa is to advance sustainability and resilience by effectively managing the essential natural resources that support food and nutrition security,...

Joint Programme UNS - Liptako Gourma Authority

Lake Chad Stabilization Facility

The Regional Stabilization Facility for the Lake Chad is intended to provide a new approach, calibrated to respond to the challenges of governance, insecurity, rule of law, human security and livelihood in the Lake Chad Basin region. It responds to...

Liptako Gourma Regional Stabilization Facility

Liptako Gourma, i.e. the borderlands between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, have become a hotspot of terrorist attacks and community violence over the past years. Building on its experiences in the Middle East and the Lake Chad Basin, UNDP is...

Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) in Africa: A Development Approach

In response to the growing threat of violent extremism in Africa, UNDP aims to strengthen development responses and mitigate the growth of violent extremism in Africa. While a security-centered approach to violent extremism is necessary, it needs to...

Preventing Violent Extremism: A Development Offer

Promoting Inclusive Intra-African trade through the AfCFTA to accelerate structural transformation and sustainable development in Africa

RBA Senior Economist Programme

The Economist Programme is one of RBA’s most valued initiatives in enhancing policy support and capacity in our programme countries. It is particularly more relevant now that the 2030 development agenda and the African Union Agenda (Agenda 2063)...

Regional Portfolio on Inclusive Growth

We support country-led development efforts to implement inclusive growth policies and strategies towards increasing financial inclusion and reaching out to the poor. Working with governments and the private sector, we help strengthen business...

Regional Project for Youth Empowerment – the Sahel

The Sahel programme 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...

Scale-up Climate Change Adaptation in Africa via the Africa Adaptation Initiative

Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) aims to strengthen collaboration on adaptation across the continent through high-level pan-African and regional dialogues, adaptation action on the ground, and addressing the adaptation financing gap. It is designed...

SDG Financing

The African Finance Hub, based in Pretoria, provides opportunities for dialogue and collaboration on innovative finance and private sector finance, such as Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFFs). In partnership with the EU and UN DESA, UNDP...

SECCCI Support for Effective Coordination of Cross-border Initiatives in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia

Co-funded by the European Union and implemented in partnership with IGAD and UNEP, the project addresses the drivers of vulnerability, conflict and instability, irregular migration and displacement, building resilience in 3 cross-border clusters in...

Social Protection for Sustainable Development in Africa (SP4SD Africa)

SP4SD Africa has the overall objective to strengthen regional, sub-regional and national capacities to deliver on social protection systems. In line with that, the team is running projects on knowledge production on social protection, expanding...

South-South Cooperation

SSC is an essential tool for implementing the SDGs on a country, regional and global level and sharing experiences and lessons learned across countries on implementing INFFs and SDG taxation frameworks. UNDP is supporting a new remittances pipeline...

Strategic Analysis and Research for Africa (Regional SDGs)

Strengthening Africa’s resilience and capacities for adaptation and disaster risk reduction

This programme will contribute to the operationalization of the SDGs Agenda 2030, Sendai Framework for DRR, and the Paris Climate Agreement at the global level, and various regional strategies such as the RIASCO resilience strategy, SADC, ECOWAS and...

Strengthening capacities for Disaster Risk Reduction and Adaptation for Resilience in the Sahel Region

Strengthening Climate Change Governance in Africa

This programme led by Ministries of Finance aims at supporting the capacity development of African Governments to redirect national plans and budgets towards a low emission and climate resilient development pathway. It will build a culture of...

Support for Addressing the HIV Epidemic through UNAIDS’ UBRAF mechanism

This project aims to provide assistance and resources to combat the HIV epidemic in Africa. It is implemented in collaboration with UNAIDS within the UBRAF Framework.

Support for Effective Coordination of Cross-border Initiatives in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia

SECCI aims to address cooperation and coordination approaches to management and utilization of cross-border resources to enhance ecosystem and community resilience as well as create wealth and employment opportunities in the cross-border areas of the...

Support for rural electrification by renewable energy systems in the Liptako-Gourma region - Pilot phase

Support to implementation of the AfCFTA

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is an instrument to forge an African market for goods and services, foster regulatory coherence and enable institutional cooperation on trade and investment related issues. Through collaboration with...

Supporting Inclusive Political Transitions

The new Supporting Inclusive Transitions in Africa (SITA) Facility seeks to revitalize UNDP’s engagement on the effective management of countries undergoing transition.

Supporting Informal Enterprises Transition Towards Sustainable Growth and Formalization in the African, Caribbean and Pacific Regions

This project aims to facilitate the growth and formalization of informal enterprises. Working together with UNDP, the ILO’s Social Finance and SME units will create an enabling regulatory environment for informal enterprises, reduce regulatory...

The Sahel Offer: Governance Promise

The offer aims to bolster governance systems given that extending state presence in neglected border areas and supporting local and national institutions is a precondition to foster stability and resilience. It will also help to create the space for...

The Sahel Offer: Rural electrification in Liptako-Gourma Region

Given that two-thirds of people in the region lack access to energy, UNDP will deploy its longstanding expertise in renewable energy to create decent green jobs & livelihoods. UNDP’s new Energy Compact pledges to work with partners to provide...

The Sahel Offer: Youth Empowerment

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...

Transforming the development cooperation landscape in Africa to implement the SDGs | South-South Cooperation

The project aims to promote development leadership and the south-south provider role of African countries in the Global arena. The core work in these countries is focusing on creating the SSC ecosystem at national levels, either through the...