The UNDP Africa Borderlands Centre (ABC), in collaboration with ECOWAS, will host a partnership dialogue to deepen collaboration on development in West Africa. The dialogue, slated for July 4–5, will bring together participants drawn from the ECOWAS Commission and UNDP entities, including the Regional Service Centre for Africa (RSCA), the…
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IGAD and UNDP agree to collaborate on promoting resilience and borderlands development in the Horn of Africa
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IGAD and UNDP have agreed to collaborate closely over the coming years in promoting resilience and borderlands development in the Horn of Africa and to develop a Joint IGAD-UNDP Integrated Programme. The agreement was made at a joint workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya. Present at the workshop were over 65 participants, eight UNDP country offices from the Horn of Africa and in the IGAD region including UNDP’s regional presence in the Arab states and IGAD Senior staff members from across the regional organization. Notably, key partners of the resilience and borderlands work included the African Union, Special Envoy for the Horn, the World Bank, GIZ, Sweden, EU, Japan, UNEP and the Life and Peace Institute were represented. UNDP and IGAD convened this workshop.