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Call for Applications - Digital for Youth-Led Enterprise: A Design Thinking Sprint for Young Innovators in Nigeria
The Digital for Youth-Led Enterprise programme is a national 5-day in-person design thinking sprint taking place in Abuja, Nigeria, from 10–14 November 2025.
It will b ... read more and apply
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The timbuktoo ManuTech Hub is the first African platform dedicated to African manufacturing startups. Located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the hub delivers hybrid world?class resources, mentorship, labs, and equity?free funding to help founders build scalable, tech?driven solutions that upgrade the con ... read more and apply
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The National Insurance Commission (NIC), in collaboration with the UNDP Insurance and Risk Finance Facility (IRFF), presents the Inclusive Insurance Innovation Challenge for Ghana (3IC) — a nationwide call to disrupt, innovate, and drive real impact in underserved markets. ... read more and apply
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Implemented by the Craft and Design Institute (CDI), this pioneering accelerator programme is designed to help 15 high-potential creative businesses thrive in 2025.
As part of the global UNDP timbuktoo initiative, the Creatives Lab is a unique acceleration programme that blend ... read more and apply
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The Give1Project, Concordia University, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are searching for 150 young people from across West and Central Africa to join the second cohort of the Regional Cybersecurity Training programme.
The initiative, first launched in 2023 with a pilot g ... read more and apply
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UNDP’s Insurance and Risk Finance Facility is creating an Insurance Innovation Challenge (IIC) to help tackle these major issues through advances within the insurance industry, by facilitating and incentivizing the development and launch of a set of transformative and innovative insurance prod ... read more and apply
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The Timbuktoo GreenTech Hub in Kenya is seeking visionary GreenTech entrepreneurs with scalable, impact-driven solutions to address Africa’s energy challenges. The Energy Accelerator Program focuses on innovative renewable energy technologies that improve energy access and sustainability acros ... read more and apply
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Under the flagship of the timbuktoo Greentech hub, the Energy Accelerator Programme has launched the call for applications and will focus on renewable energy technologies that can provide sustainable, accessible and decentralized solutions, reducing dependence on fossil fuels and improving ... read more and apply
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Unit of Information and Technology Management (ITM) in Copenhagen is responsible for supporting UNDP Country Offices around the world with ICT and Green Energy solutions.
UNDP is the development arm of the United Nations. Present in 170 countries wi ... read more and apply
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Are you a visionary HealthTech entrepreneur/innovator with a groundbreaking idea to transform healthcare in Africa and committed to leveraging innovation to contribute towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? Do you have a scalable, defendable solution with clear monetization strategies?&nb ... read more and apply
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The AI Hub for Sustainable Development is a new collaborative initiative for steering private sector collective action to accelerate sustainable development in local AI ecosystems. By focusing on three critical pillars - data pipelines, green computational power, and talent - the AI Hub seeks to sup ... read more and apply
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Are you a technology-driven startup, passionate about leveraging innovations in the financial services sector to solve Africa’s most complex development challenges? Do you have a scalable solution with a defensible position and clear monetization strategy?
The timbuktoo Fintech Startu ... read more and apply
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The Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA) is responsible for positioning UNDP as the world’s leading global development network, promoting its global authority and thought leadership on sustainable development and the interconnected issues of poverty, inequality, and ... read more and apply
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The SCALA Private Sector Engagement Facility was launched at the COP26 by the programme to foster stronger partnerships and dialogue between public and private sector actors through demand-led approaches based on countries’ national agriculture and land use sector priorit ... read more and apply
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For the African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Programme, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is looking for young, talented African women to lead the sustainable development agenda If you are an African Union citizen, apply to the African Young Women Leaders Fellowship Program.
Do ... read more and apply
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The Growth Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV) programme identifies through a highly competitive process enterprises from developing countries that have developed at-scale products and services that contribute to the SDGs while achieving commercial success and are committed to embed impact considerations i ... read more and apply
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Applications open for Africa Youth in Trade Innovation Challenge by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) held in Partnership with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).
This initiative prioritizes Entrepreneurship, Expo ... read more and apply
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UNDP and Toyota Libya F.Z.C. continue their partnership to provide car maintenance training courses for 20 young Libyans for 12 weeks to develop their skills and improve their chances of finding a job.
The programme includes car maintenance, computer skills, English language and Reporting. ... read more and apply
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The United Nations Development Programme Sub-Regional Hub for West and Central Africa (UNDP WACA) has launched this Challenge calling for young entrepreneurs and innovators with impactful solutions in West and Central Africa.
The UNDP WACA Youth Innovation Challenge is an initiative designed to i ... read more and apply
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NDP is the development arm of the United Nations. Present in 170 countries with over 17,000 people, UNDP works on the world’s biggest problems: extreme poverty, climate change, good governance, renewable energy, crisis prevention, and women’s empowerment, among others.
The recently ap ... read more and apply
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About United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to achieve the eradication of poverty, and the reduction of inequalities and exclusion. We help countries to develop policies, leadership skills, partnering abilities, institutional capabilities and build resilience in order to sustain development results.
This is a critical time for the world. At UNDP, we see this period as a huge opportunity to advance the global sustainable development agenda. In September 2015, world leaders adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. UNDP is working to strengthen new frameworks for development, disaster risk reduction and climate change. We support countries' efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, or Global Goals, which will guide global development priorities through 2030.
UNDP's Strategic Plan (2018-2021) has been designed to be responsive to the wide diversity of the countries we serve. The diversity is reflected in three broad development contexts:
Eradicate poverty in all its forms and dimensions
Accelerate structural transformations
Build resilience to shocks and crises
To respond to these issues, and better focus its resources and expertise to deliver on the 2030 Agenda, UNDP has identified a set of approaches that we call our Signature Solutions:
Keeping people out of POVERTY
GOVERNANCE for peaceful, just, and inclusive societies
Crisis prevention and increased RESILIENCE
ENVIRONMENT: nature-based solutions for development
Clean, affordable ENERGY
Women's empowerment and GENDER equality
In all our activities, we encourage the protection of human rights and the empowerment of women, minorities and the poorest and most vulnerable.
The annual Human Development Report, commissioned by UNDP, focuses the global debate on key development issues, providing new measurement tools, innovative analysis and often controversial policy proposals. The global Report's analytical framework and inclusive approach carry over into regional, national and local Human Development Reports, also supported by UNDP.
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