Elderly rural women, supported by UNDP Global Environment Facility Small Grant Programme, are electrifying off-grid communities in the Upper West region of Ghana. Salamatu, Dakota, and Afia, all in their 60s live in Dupari and Zukpuri in the Upper West region of Ghana. The women, popularly called the ‘solar grandmothers’, are the first solar…
The Swedish Energy Agency and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) today announced a transformative $28.2 million agreement to support the reduction of global carbon emissions and boost poverty reduction efforts in African countries. The new UNDP/ Swedish Energy Agency initiative “Climate Ambition Raising Through Article 6 (CARTA)” will indirectly underwrite climate mitigation projects…
In a united effort to address the escalating challenges of violent extremism and arms proliferation in West Africa, the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), trained security personnel and civil society actors. This is to strengthen their roles in preventing and countering terrorism, violent extremism,…
