From 🎶 to 🎥 to 🧥, Sierra Leone’s youth are trained as enumerators to map the creative economy. With #UniPod, Nallo Jr Arts Academy & timbuktooAfrica, UNDP in Sierra Leone is equipping youth with skills to turn creativity into sustainable livelihoods. #CreativeEconomy

#UNDP60 | When crisis strikes, we stay and deliver. We maintain operations in the world's most challenging contexts. Our work on crisis prevention builds resilience so countries can withstand economic, social and environmental shocks. #UNDPEB

This September in Ethiopia: 🔹 #ClimateWeek2025 | 1 – 6 Sept 🔹 Africa Climate Summit (#ACS2) | 8 – 10 Sept These pivotal events will amplify African leadership, unlock solutions and shape Africa’s contribution to global climate action. 👉 Learn more: unfccc.int/topics/climate…..

Le DG pi, M. Henri Songoti, et des experts d’AGRHYMET ont reçu, le 27 août, une délégation de la Coopération Suisse au #Niger Les échanges ont porté principalement sur les perspectives d’une collaboration renforcée en faveur de la résilience climatique

"We must [be able to] anticipate storms, heatwaves, floods & drought," António Guterres United Nations Secretary-General calls for investment in both adaptation AND resilience. Discover the GAR - the United Nations flagship report on #DisasterRiskReduction👉 ow.ly/Mm1j50Ug1Q3 #StopTheSpiral

🙏to #UNDPEB partners for endorsing UN Development's Strategic Plan 2026–2029. We greatly appreciate the vote of confidence in UNDP. The Plan has a clear focus: accelerate human development while easing 🌍pressures. strategicplan.undp.org What's inside 🧵

Access to clean water builds resilience. With over $60M in co-financing mobilized by the Gov't of #Comoros & partners, Global Environment Facility (GEF) approved $8.9M from the Least Developed Countries Fund to provide safe, climate-resilient drinking water to 75,000 people. ➡️go.undp.org/wWz

We are celebrating a major step forward for resilient African cities🌆! The Africa Urban Resilience Programme, developed by the 🌍African Union Commission (#AUC) with support from 🇸🇪Sweden through UNDP's Sahel Resilience Project, has launched its #governance structure. This

📍 Addis Ababa | 4–10 Sept 🌱 #ClimateWeek2025 and #ACS25 will gather leaders in Addis Ababa to drive solutions for a resilient, green future. UN Development will spotlight scalable African-led action, climate finance & innovation. 🔗 More: bit.ly/4mQAeg2

Join AU Agriculture, RuralDev't BlueEconomy Environment, UNDRR Africa, ICPAC, and UN Land and Drought to Anticipate Drought, accelerate early warning, and get Africa ready for the next and future droughts on 9 September 2025 at the 2nd Africa Climate Summit. The event will take place from 11:30 to 13:00 in Plenary Room 71.

⚡️ Africa needs energy solutions that are reliable and sustainable. 🇿🇲 By expanding climate-resilient energy sources, Zambia shows how the region can secure energy access while building long-term climate resilience. 👉 Learn more: go.undp.org/UZW 🌍 #ClimateWeek2025

Join us at #ACS2 for the launch of the Community Recovery & Resilience Facility (CRRF)—an African Union & UNDP initiative to accelerate recovery and climate resilience across Africa. 📅 9 Sept, 2025 📍Africa Pavilion, AICC, Addis Ababa #Agenda2063 #CRRF

At the #BakuClimatePeace Forum during #AfricaClimateWeek, I highlighted the growing recognition of the climate–security link. Integrating peace considerations into climate strategies is essential for building resilience, stability and sustainable development. Through UNDP

We joined the African Union today to launch the Community Recovery & Resilience Facility. As @AhunnaEziakonwa noted at the launch, the facility is not just a response tool; it’s a shift in how Africa builds resilience. 🔹 60M+ people targeted 🔹 $225B in #resilience financing

Earlier today in Addis Ababa, we officially launched the Community Recovery and Resilience Facility (CRRF) in partnership with the African Union on the margins of the #AfricaClimateSummit—marking a major step to help communities recover stronger and build lasting resilience.

We’re proud to launch the Community Recovery & Resilience Facility (CRRF) with African Union. Supported by 🇱🇺🇰🇷🇩🇰, through the UNDP Funding Windows, we are investing in resilience for Africa’s communities. 🌍 Watch how CRRF helps communities recover stronger ⬇️

This week, UNDP Africa & UNDP Ghana organized a National Workshop on Sovereign Credit Ratings. Almost 30 officials from Ministry of Finance, Ghana & other key institutions discussed strategies to strengthen Ghana’s engagement with rating agencies and advance fairer credit rating assessments.

🌍📘Our report “Practical Solutions at the Intersection of Climate Action, Peace, and Security in the Liptako-Gourma Region” is out. Learn how climate efforts can also build peace & security — with actionable insights from the ground. 📥 → Read it here: go.undp.org/wEG

Informal cross-border trade fuels livelihoods, food security & growth in Africa’s Great Lakes region. Our new #PolicyBrief calls for policies that empower women traders & turn borderlands into corridors of opportunity. 🔗 go.undp.org/i4k

From the land of Toumaï 🇹🇩, the youth of the #Sahel are showing the way: a path of courage, creativity & unity. #YouthConnektSahel2025 embodies the promise of a Sahel built by & for its young people 💪 Proud to see this generation coming together. #ThrivingSahel #YCS25