UNDP Botswana in partnership with the Embassy of 🇯🇵 in 🇧🇼, are supporting vulnerable communities with climate-smart agricultural technologies & access to water solutions to boost resilience to ongoing El Nino influenced drought
#Cleanwater #FutureSmartUNDP #reducedinequalities

Do you have a proposal for an innovative & far-reaching community-driven project aimed at creating a more inclusive digital future? 🙋‍♀️

Apply for Int’l Telecommunication Union & Huawei's #GenerationConnect Young Leadership Programme & make your idea a reality 🤩🔗 itu.int/generationconn…

Driving towards a greener future! Today's steering committee meeting, led by PS Patrick Karera from Ministry of Environment - Rwanda & Varsha Redkar Palepu, our Dep. Rep for the Strengthening Capacities of Environment & Natural Resources Sector programme celebrated milestones & strategies towards a green…

Great news that Oxfam are dropping Barclays. Photo below from Christian Climate Action visit to Oxfam HQ in Oxford last Friday.

#DropBarclays

“How poor are the poor?”
Our Res Rep, Balazs Horvath, hosted a Brown Bag Lunch Session with key strategic partners on the #MPI
Organized by UNDP in collaboration with the National Planning Commission to discuss national policies & strategies undertaken with the support of UNDP

𝐖𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 - Meet entrepreneur, Rre Fane Mojalefa Mpheye (54), the owner of FANMOJ Enterprises, a dynamic waste collection & recycling company based in Maun #FundedByCEDA .

On a recent visit, we were captivated by the remarkable strides of FANMOJ Enterprises.

Don't forget to register to VOTE! ✊🏽 Registration runs until February 3rd, 2024. You must 18 years and above, be a citizen and have a valid OMANG.
#YourVoteYourVoice
#BotswanaElects2024

Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, which incl rituals, expressions, traditions, practices, knowledge & skills that are transmitted through generations, & is deeply ingrained in the identity of communities & groups. In BW- Kgatleng Pottery, Dikopelo music, Sepuru dance.

I'm the UN Secretary General's Rep in #Botswana . I'm here with the UN Botswana family to support the people of Botswana achieve their development goals. Sometimes I talk about things some folks don't want to hear. I'm always happy to debate. Remember this. I deeply❤️ Botswana.

Happening today:
Opening of the 75th-anniversary campaign for 🇧🇼s #UDHRs
Activities include Launch the Human Rights & #SDGs E-Learning Course supported by the UNDP Botswana & @UN Human Rights Southern Africa

Save the date for a unique UNESCO event, coming up on 9 November!

Join historian Dipesh Chakrabarty & other selected thinkers, Heads of State and civil society leaders as they gather at UNESCO HQ to explore how to protect humanity's common goods faced with major disruptions such…

Botswana's first solar power plants supplying 4Mw of electricity to the BPC grid. Developed by Sturdee Energy with construction support from local company Sustainable Energy Botswana. This consortium's next project will be a 6Mw plant for the University of Botswana expected in early 2024.

'As we move forward with the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework ( #GBF ), the work of the SGP will become even more important,' Haoliang Xu 30th anniversary event at #GEFassembly2023 .

We're here to help move from #AgreementToAction : ow.ly/bwFq50PMvJr

The first ever Local Council of Youth to be hosted in Botswana,please do register here to participate:
bit.ly/LCOYBotswanaZo…

Millions of people depend on wildlife for food, particularly Indigenous & rural communities.

#IndigenousPeoples are the guardians of biodiversity and their rights must be at the heart of wildlife management 👉bit.ly/3jNbl4v

Via Food and Agriculture Organization

Minister Lavrov exposing the ‘Empire of Lies!’ We need more and more courageous anti-imperialist forces in all corners of the world.

1/ The synthesis report of the technical phase of the #GlobalStocktake is out.

Over the past 1.5y, States & non-State actors discussed progress in implementing the #ParisAgreement .

This report captures those discussions & will feed into the #GST outcomes at #COP28 .

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Its on Maun Lodge , #Botswana the 1st meeting of AEWA Slaty Egret International Working Group, African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) . Looking forward to a productive 3days of engagements...Botswana Government , #DWNP , BirdlifeBotswana , The Wild Bird Trust , #BWBT .Working to support government in conservation efforts..

Interesting presentations from #SergeyDereliev and #EvelynMoloko from the AEWA Secretariat, African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement (AEWA) , shared on the AEWA strategic action plan 2019-2027 and discussed on advancing implementating AEWA initiatives in #Africa , linking the plans to the Sustainable Development Goals.. Super exciting...

I will be speaking at World Green Building Week 2023

To emphasise the pivotal role of youth in propelling the transition to a circular economy.

Join this event on 14/09/2023 10:00 - 14:00 CAT

#WGBW23 #BuildingTheTransition #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #YouthLeadership