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As the UN's global development organization, UNDP has a normative global mission, as a pro-poor development agency, to promote human rights, gender and the MDGs. As a cornerstone of its work, UNDP connects partner countries to knowledge, experience and resource networks that build capacity for pro-poor growth and human development. Further, as part of the UN Reforms process, UNDP has a mandate to lead the UN in system-wide coordination.

31/08/2026

From the innovators, traders and strategists who came before us to a new generation developing globally competitive ideas, Africa’s legacy of innovation continues. 🎙️

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Africa has the minerals. But how do we make sure the opportunities stay and grow here too? That means looking beyond ext...
28/08/2026

Africa has the minerals. But how do we make sure the opportunities stay and grow here too?

That means looking beyond extraction — to what happens next: adding value locally, building skills, creating jobs and using technologies like AI to open up new possibilities across the critical minerals value chain.

At the 4th African Critical Minerals Summit, UNDP’s Nokutula Mhene joined Leanne Manas for a conversation on beneficiation, AI and what it will take to ensure Africa’s mineral wealth creates opportunities that reach its people.

Because the real value of Africa’s critical minerals should also be measured by the opportunities they create for Africans.

South Africa’s transition to a low-carbon economy is about more than reducing emissions. It is also about what we protec...
28/08/2026

South Africa’s transition to a low-carbon economy is about more than reducing emissions. It is also about what we protect, how industries evolve, where investment flows and who benefits from the change
 
Through our 2026-2030 Country Programme, we will work alongside government, communities and partners to protect biodiversity, advance a just energy transition, support greener industries and mobilize climate finance.
 
🔗Learn more through the link in our bio.

25/08/2026

Beyond the Desk with Kie Inoue!

Meet Kie, an Innovation and Enterprise Support Officer at UNDP South Africa. Through timbuktoo Africa, she works with young entrepreneurs, animators and ecosystem partners to strengthen Africa’s creative ecosystem and amplify African stories.

Beyond her work, Kie loves travelling solo and discovering new people, places and stories along the way.

🎥 Watch to find out what drives her both at and beyond the desk.

South Africa’s transition to a low-carbon economy is about more than reducing emissions. It is also about what we protec...
25/08/2026

South Africa’s transition to a low-carbon economy is about more than reducing emissions. It is also about what we protect, how industries evolve, where investment flows and who benefits from the change.

Through our 2026–2030 Country Programme, we will work alongside government, communities and partners to protect biodiversity, advance a just energy transition, support greener industries and mobilise climate finance.

🔗 Learn more through the link in our bio.

What happens when biodiversity and business come together? Traditional leaders, women-led enterprises, agricultural stak...
24/08/2026

What happens when biodiversity and business come together?

Traditional leaders, women-led enterprises, agricultural stakeholders and government representatives came together at the Implementation of Agriculture Hub to explore how nature-positive approaches can support sustainable enterprise development.

Through UNDP ’s Nature Intelligence for Business Challenge, Green Tree Market Agents and Mcebo Unlimited are examining how their businesses depend on and impact nature while identifying nature-related risks and opportunities.

The engagement also created space to share biodiversity finance resources and strengthen dialogue on the role of women-led enterprises and local communities in building a nature-positive economy.

Because protecting nature and strengthening local economies can go hand in hand.

21/08/2026

What makes you want to tell a story?

For Althea Jarvis, the answer is personal.

Her own experiences have shaped the stories she wants to tell and the perspectives she hopes to bring to the screen.

Through animation, she’s finding a creative way to share stories inspired by life, experience and the world around her.

🎥 Meet Althea, part of the UNDP Africa timbuktooafrica Creatives Hub, and hear what inspires her storytelling.

What does inclusive growth mean in practice? It means creating more opportunities for more people to participate in Sout...
20/08/2026

What does inclusive growth mean in practice?

It means creating more opportunities for more people to participate in South Africa’s economy.

Over the next five years, we are working to help SMEs, township and rural businesses grow, while connecting young people and women to the skills, jobs and markets they need to move forward.

It also means expanding digital access and supporting public services and institutions that are accountable and work for people.

Because growth matters most when more people can benefit from it.

🔗 Learn more through the link in our bio.

Today, we honour humanitarian workers who dedicate themselves to supporting people and communities in some of the world’...
19/08/2026

Today, we honour humanitarian workers who dedicate themselves to supporting people and communities in some of the world’s most difficult circumstances.

Serving humanity takes many forms.

Here in South Africa, United Nations Volunteers bring their skills, expertise and perspectives to UNDP’s development work, contributing to initiatives that strengthen communities and expand opportunities across the country.

This , we celebrate the spirit of service that brings people together to make a difference.

Healthy land supports more than nature. It supports people, livelihoods and opportunity. Across South Africa, UNDP is wo...
17/08/2026

Healthy land supports more than nature. It supports people, livelihoods and opportunity.

Across South Africa, UNDP is working with communities to restore ecosystems while creating opportunities from the natural resources they live alongside and depend on.

From restoring indigenous medicinal plants in Limpopo to protecting the unique biodiversity of the Succulent Karoo in the Northern Cape, communities are at the heart of turning restoration into sustainable livelihoods.

As global conversations continue at , we’re putting land restoration into action here at home.
Because restoring land can also mean restoring opportunity. 💚
🔗 Read more via the link in bio.

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