GiveToGain: Promoting women's economic empowerment in Southern Africa
Stories & Blogs ECA (Blog )As part of International Women's Day 2026, ECA SRO-SA joins UN Women in supporting the GiveToGain campaign which aligns with this year's global theme: Rights, Justice, Action, For ALL women and girls.
Water, sanitation, and women’s economic empowerment across the lifecycle in Africa
Stories & Blogs ECA (Blog )Across the lifecycle, inadequate WASH services impose particularly high costs on girls and women.
Powering women's economic futures: energy and opportunity in Africa's inclusive industrialization transformation
Stories & Blogs ECA (Blog )industrialization transformation 9 March, 2026 [Blog] Powering women's economic futures: energy and opportunity in Africa's inclusive industrialization transformation Share this: By Towela Ngulube and Sosson Tadadjeu In Africa, women play a crucial role
Beyond the headlines: How Africa is building a new future for migration
Stories & Blogs ECA (Blog )For too long, the global conversation about migration in Africa has been dominated by a single, crisis-driven narrative.
Zambia at a Crossroads: Turning Migration Policy into Reality
Stories & Blogs ECA (Blog )For decades, Zambia has stood at a unique crossroads. Bordering nine countries, it is a nation of origin, transit, and destination all at once.
A Strategic Tripartite Partnership to Improve Flood Forecasting in West Africa and the Sahel
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )“Through the Sahel Resilience Project, we are strengthening institutions for disaster risk reduction and adaptation, co-creating inclusive solutions, and supporting communities to better anticipate and respond to hydrometeorological hazards—while localizi
How Gen Z is Redefining Governance in Africa
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )Jide Okeke explores how by blending digital-age accountability with institutional design, youth-led movements could transform how African societies govern themselves in the twenty-first century.
Briefing remarks on the situation of women and girls in Sudan
Stories & Blogs UN-Women (Press briefing )From the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional DiUN call for the protection and prioritization of women and girls amid Sudan’s acute food insecurity.
The UN’s Next 80 Years Depend on Africa’s Next 10
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )The United Nations turns 80 this year. It should be a celebration. Instead, it feels like a reckoning. Multilateralism as we know it, is in crisis: too slow where it should be agile, too fragmented where it should be cohesive, too exclusive where it shoul