🗣️ Join the Regional Consultations on Meaningful Youth Engagement in NDCs, organized by YOUNGO & IIYFCC, hosted by UN Development on @Youth4Climate_ platform! 📅 Starting 20 March 2025 🔗 Join now: community.youth4climate.info/group/regional… #Youth4Climate #NDCs #ClimateAction

📢 African youth, your voice matters! 📢 UNDP is shaping its 2026–2029 Africa Regional Programme,and we want to hear from YOU!🗣️✨ Share your priorities,challenges & ideas in this quick Youth Snapshot Survey and help set the agenda for the next 5y 🔗 bit.ly/4l7SiBO

🔹 AI, digitalization & youth peacebuilding in Africa 🔹 How can new technologies support conflict prevention while addressing risks like bias & misinformation? Join #GPWMeetsAddis for this critical conversation! 📅 April 8 📍 Addis Ababa & online 🔗 genevapeaceweek.ch/en/gpw-meets-a…

🌍 Join us for an inspiring dialogue: “Young Women at the Forefront on Climate Action, Peace and Security: Major Challenges Ahead” 🔵 10 April at 10 AM EST/ 2PM UTC 🔗 RSVP: undp.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #Youth2030 #youth4climate #youth4peace #GCYPS

Connect for the Children and Youth's Pre Event, co-organized by UNDP Africa, ECA and the Government of Uganda on Job Creation and the Realization of the SDGs on 8 April in person (Sheena and Meera rooms) or online and listen to our Director Matthias Z. Naab and many youth representatives!

🌍Community-based reintegration is central to conflict prevention in East Africa. Through KOICA Kenya Office, we’re hosting government stakeholders from Kenya, Somalia & South Sudan to discuss strengthening local capacity for sustainable reintegration & preventing violent extremism.

At #GenevaPeaceWeek meets Addis, the panel on 'Opportunities & challenges of new technologies, digitalization & AI for youth peacebuilders' discussed how these technologies can enhance youth peacebuilding efforts in Africa. w/ African Union Political Affairs Peace and Security, ISS, Inclusive Peace #YouthPeace

Jeunes pour la paix✊ +234 leaders formés, 15 projets soutenus , 3 radios universitaires relancées 1 plateforme de formation lancée L’événement national #IRFTanora a célébré l'engagement des jeunes pour un 🇲🇬 pacifique UN Peacebuilding - Madagascar Joachim OUEDRAOGO Marie Doucey #Youth4peace

🌍 In fragile regions hit by conflict & climate change, youth are stepping up as peacebuilders & climate innovators. 📘 Discover how a Youth Climate Peace Security approach boosts resilience & inclusion: go.undp.org/3js #Youth2030 #ECOSOCYouth

✔️How can we better prepare youth for the future of work and learning? ✔️How can programmes better advance youth in education, skill building & economic empowerment? JOIN US LIVE NOW to learn 🔑 lessons from 300 UN youth evaluations to advance #Youth2030 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Le projet #IRFTANORA a permis la mise en place d'une plateforme de formation pour les jeunes en matière de consolidation de la paix. Cette plateforme est 100% #gratuite et accessible sur le lien msis-tatao.org/IRF-TANORA/ UN Peacebuilding - Madagascar Joachim OUEDRAOGO Marie Doucey #Youth4Peace

Across the African continent, youth voices are leading initiatives for lasting peace. 🕊 For Hager, a 16-year-old girl from northern Ethiopia, youth leadership is key to building a stable, prosperous future for her country. 🇪🇹 Read more: bit.ly/45gGYOa

How do we connect youth agency, climate, digitalization, jobs, mental health, governance & peace into 1⃣ youth-led & responsive portfolio? At UN Development #Africa, teams & youth leaders are co-designing a #RegionalYouthPortfolio using systems thinking to shape future-ready solutions.

Closing the week, #RSCA Director Matthias Z. Naab captured the path forward in 3⃣ words: Agency. Ideation. Action. A clear direction to elevate youth leadership, structure our collective thinking & deliver long term impact

🌍 Africa’s youth are leading on peace, inclusion, and climate action. 🗣 From climate security to gender and disability inclusion, these 10 youth-driven recommendations are redefining peacebuilding across the continent: sparkblue.org/organization/y…

Youth & tech are the engines of #SmartGovernance in the #Sahel! At #SahelGovernanceForum, a youth-led panel showed how digital tools & innovation can make governance inclusive, transparent & future-ready. 💡 Youth-powered. Tech-enabled.

Across #Africa, young people are leading change, one solution & one community at a time. 🌍 Behind every local initiative lies a force multiplier: partnerships. 🤝 This #InternationalYouthDay, hear directly from 5 youth voices powering progress toward the #SDGs. ✨ #2030Agenda

To mark #InternationalYouthDay, we gathered 159+ participants from across Africa as youth from 🇧🇯, 🇸🇳, 🇱🇷 & 🇬🇲 shared on implementing Youth, Peace & Security NAPs. Let’s keep centering youth & advancing a Regional Coordination Mechanism for peace.

Excited to share that the 2025 Disarmament Toolkit is now open for registration! 🌏 Free & open to all —students, young professionals, CSOs, educators, journalists & government officials. No prior experience needed—just curiosity & eagerness to learn. 📅 Join us this September!