IFAD calls for more partnerships and investments to scale up jobs programme for youth in Africa.
Stories & Blogs IFADOct 16, 2025(News )Youth leaders, policymakers, development practitioners, and partners from across Africa called for further partnerships and new investments in the Agribusiness Hubs (ABH).
Opening Remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Ms. Diene Keita at the World Health Summit Keynote Session: Women’s Health – Global Wealth: Catalyzing Returns on Bold Investments.
Stories & Blogs UNFPAOct 14, 2025(Speech )Every single day, over 700 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. That’s one woman lost every two minutes – needlessly.
Africa’s Blue Economy: The next frontier for economic resilience beyond natural treasures.
Stories & Blogs UNDP - AfricaSep 23, 2025(Press Release )"The Africa Blue Economy Week 2025 reminds and encourages us to work collaboratively towards pooling finances and maximising the potential of the Blue Economy in Africa,” stated Dr Jihane El Gaouzi, Head of the Sustainable Environment Division at the Afri
IFAD President: "Rural youth need investment to build their own future" – Africa Food Systems Forum.
Stories & Blogs IFADSep 01, 2025(Press Release )International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is stressing that investing in rural development and transforming food systems is essential to ending hunger, reducing poverty, and building long-term resilience to any type of shocks.
From Landlocked to Land-Linked: Unlocking Africa’s Inland Economic Powerhouses
Stories & Blogs UNDP - AfricaAug 07, 2025(Press Release )Reframing Africa’s landlocked nations as strategic “land-linked” economies driving trade, innovation, and integration across the continent.
At UN Ocean Conference, IFAD advocates to boost innovative finance for coastal communities to protect the world’s oceans.
Stories & Blogs IFADJun 09, 2025(News )Governments, multilateral organizations and private sector actors must urgently scale-up innovative ways to drive finance to small-scale fishermen and coastal communities.
“I witnessed unimaginable horrors”: Sexual violence used as weapon of terror against women and girls across Sudan
Stories & Blogs UNFPAApr 02, 2025(News )There are alarming reports of sexual violence being used as a weapon of terror across Sudan. Over 12 million women and girls – and increasingly men and boys – are estimated to be at risk of assault.