Established in Nairobi, in 2019, the UNDP Resilience Hub for Africa is the only thematic hub of its kind with a mandate on integrated resilience, covering 46 UNDP Regional Bureau for Africa countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It supports UNDP country offices in mainstreaming resilience throughout their programme cycle and provides technical policy and programme support to country offices to apply a resilience building approach at the national and local level. It also delivers resilience at the margins by leading and supporting the development of regional initiatives to reach the most vulnerable in geographical hotspots and in particularly fragile contexts. 

The Resilience Hub focuses its support on three key thematic areas: Disaster risk reduction and recovery for building resilience (DRT); governance and peacebuilding; and human mobility. Innovation and technology, especially digital technology, lie at the heart of the Resilience Hub’s work to accelerate resilience building across the continent. Its flagship regional initiative: the “Africa Leading the 4th Industrial Revolution (AL4IR),” builds resiliency of digital technology. It supports African countries to embrace this new revolution - leaving no one behind and putting technology at the heart of national development strategies.  

The Resilience Hub contributes to building some of the core enablers of Africa’s Promise and to cementing gains made towards the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063.