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AFRI CONVERSE2025#4 - Africa Taking off with AI: When the Fastest-growing Continent Adopts the Potential of AI

AFRI CONVERSE2025#4 on the topic "Africa Taking off with AI: When the Fastest-growing Continent Adopts the Potential of AI"

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Advancing the rights of intersex persons in Africa

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Equity Group Foundation and UNDP Partner to Advance Innovation and Inclusive Growth for African Youth

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Reshaping Africa’s Development Story: Inside UNDP’s Media Clinic in Addis Ababa

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AfYWL: The 4th cohort fellows are onboard

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What we do

UNDP Africa supports 46 countries in accelerating achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, expediting structural economic transformation for sustainable development, building resilience to shocks, and promoting sound governance, peace and security throughout the continent.

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Beyond stoves: unlocking the clean cooking economy

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Join the timbuktoo Pan African Incubator Network

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Building Resilience from the Ground Up: Namibia’s Homegrown Adaptation

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Reshaping Africa’s Development Story: Inside UNDP’s Media Clinic in Addis Ababa

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COP30: Listening to the Earth Before It Falls Silent

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Namibia’s Road to COP30: How Transparency and Ambition Are Powering Africa’s Climate Leadership

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Waves of Change: How Local Media Are Rewriting Stories of Peace in West Africa

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AfYWL: The 4th cohort fellows are onboard

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Uncelebrated Victories: Highlighting Sex Worker-Led Decriminalization Efforts in Africa

This report documents concrete progress made by sex worker-led organizations across sub-Saharan Africa toward decriminalizing adult sex work—an essential step…

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Position paper: Africa’s climate leadership in action: from ACS 1 and 2 to COP 30

Africa’s leadership on climate action is becoming more visible and coordinated. From the first Africa Climate Summit (ACS1) in Nairobi in 2023 to the second …

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Regional Programme for Africa | 2024 Annual Report

The report provides an overview of progress across the four pillars of the Regional Programme—People, Prosperity, Planet and Peace—as well as the flagship…

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Advancing the Health & Human Rights of Intersex Persons in Africa: Policy Guidance

Across Africa, intersex persons face significant discrimination, violence and other human rights violations, including socio-cultural stigma, economic exclusion…

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From the ground up: Community-based social protection in Africa.

This report offers a fresh perspective on Africa’s most enduring systems of support—community-based social protection organizations (CBSPOs). Rooted in…

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