#Entrepreneurship & #innovation remain critical accelerators 4 sustainable devt.

#Africa ’s youth need opportunities 2start & grow businesses. Let’s continue to invest in them 2unlock opportunities 4prosperity.

My appeal 2partners at our roundtable discussion w/ The Tony Elumelu Foundation

Thanks to our partners for the support to #Chad . We must scale up & the time is now.

Let’s work together to address the root causes of fragility, tackle access to basic social services with gender-lens & build #ClimateResilience

#Chad Transition #UNGA78 ➡️bit.ly/48jd2zZ

#Partnership is crucial to advance #peace & stability.

See how international organizations & partners are rallying support for #Chad 🇹🇩in its transition context. Their support is invaluable.

#Chad Transition #UNGA78

Live- : bit.ly/48jd2zZ

🙏🏾Thank you African Development Bank Group for beefing up PNUD Centrafrique investments in creating conditions of stabilization for people in the Central African Republic.

Together w/ the Gov & MINUSCA we will build:
🏥 basic infrastructures
🌾 livelihoods
🤝 social cohesion

#Africa is unstoppable if:
✳️ Africa’s brains power Africa’s development
✳️ Africa’s resources support its people
✳️ We connect learning to earning

I was pleased to discuss this with HE Nzimande, #SouthAfrica Min of Higher Education, Science & Tech & many leaders of #HBCUs today

At #ACS2023 , Africa sends a critical signal: #ClimateChange is not just a threat, it is an opportunity for #SustDev . African nations are exploring green energy pathways & highlighting the call to co-investment in this transition. My interview in Al Jazeera English mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/gUxdISni…

Today, we presented Country Programme Documents for 10 countries across #Africa . These CDPs represent UN Development's commitment to support people & countries in shaping a better, sustainable future & #leavingnoonebehind
#UNDPEB #Impact4Africa

State fragility, characterised by weak governance and political cohesion, also intensifies the vulnerability and risk of coups Jide Martyns Okeke Fatma Ahmed accord.org.za/analysis/from-… via @accord_online UNDP Africa

🧵1/3 @AmaniAfrica convened a timely event on the #NigerCoup key highlights that emerged:

1⃣ Coups are deeply domestic events. So the window of opportunity to act must be nationally owned and driven.

A new era of development has been unfolding in #Africa . The partnership between UNDP & African countries transcends financial transactions & opens new doors for African development

Find out more in this bit.ly/3OXAnOH blog by Noura Hamladji نورة حملاجي

Development is fast transforming moving away from aid

African countries are relying on their own resources to finance their development, unleashing a new era of development & new partnership w/ UN Development

Read my blog to learn more about this major shift 👇🏽 undp.org/africa/blog/un…

Just completed very successful visit of Ajay Banga to #Ethiopia . Sincerely thank HE PM Abiy Ahmed Ali 🇪🇹, Minister of Finance Ministry of Finance - Ethiopia and Central Bank Governor Mamo Mihretu for their warm hospitality & fruitful discussions on strengthening @Worldbank Ethiopia partnership

📌 The Board of Directors of BADEA approves FCFA 94 Billion (USD 161 Million) for 8 #SocialImpact and #ClimateChange projects in Africa.

🌍 These new approvals highlight BADEA's strong commitment towards the Global #ClimateAction Agenda.

➡️ For more: bit.ly/3pSjFrD

Delighted to join African Union & partners in announcing the launch of #AFSIT - the Africa Facility to Support Inclusive Transitions, dedicated to promoting inclusive governance, sustainable progress and ensuring political transitions leave no one behind.

#InclusiveTransitions

Important signing today between the @IsDB_group & UN Development.

Together with the Ministers of Public Health & Prevention, and Economic Prospectives we are witnessing the start of a partnership that will equip 116 health facilities & impact the lives of 3 million Chadians. 📈

In Botswana, university students get paid $154 monthly to go to school.

Botswana's citizens get free land if they apply when they are above 18.

The country is so safe that even the President can walk around without security.

All citizens receive free healthcare.

AFRICA CIVILISED EUROPE TWICE

Africans civilised Europeans - twice. Watch Pan-Africanist writer John G. Jackson explain how.

First, he notes how the Greeks learned from Black Egyptians, and passed on their knowledge to the Romans. Then, after the fall of the Roman Empire,…

An extraordinary evening accompanying UNDP on the wonderful ceremony in Lagos launching the movie NGARANNAM, a powerful documentary of rebuilding lives and livelihoods on a village that had been devastated by Boko Haram! Congratulations UNDP!!! IMF Africa UNDP Nigeria Mo Yahya

The inaugural Groundwater Access Facility (GaFa) Technical Meeting took place today, hosted by IGAD Secretariat and UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre. Participants included UN agencies, government bodies, World Bank, and USAID. #WaterSecurity 💦💧 #InvestingInAfrica

Many crises can be predicted/prevented. But investing in #prevention doesn’t generate the political attractiveness of distributing emergency kits the day after a catastrophe. Shortermism dominates the game.
But I still believe that the #SDGs Agenda -despite imperfections,…