Session 4 of the African Forum on Green Economy, Natural Capital in Development Finance, will bring together a panel of major African development finance institutions to share their interests and ambitions for integrating natural capital into investments.
Session 3 of the African Forum on Green Economy, Digging into Agriculture, will discuss cutting-edge examples on how to approach agriculture in an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable way.
This policy brief recommends focusing stimulus investment on resilient infrastructure and food security to overcome the COVID-climate crisis. It proposes a set of policy recommendations that bring multiple benefits, a “triple dividend”, to African countries.
This policy brief takes a snapshot of immediate impacts of the pandemic on health, economies, peace, security, human rights, and humanitarian assistance in Africa.
As the technical lead for the socio-economic response, UNDP and its country offices worldwide are working to assess the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on economies and communities. This report contains the preliminary findings of the socio-economic assessment conducted for Ethiopia.
This report provides the results from a study assessing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the activity of formal businesses in Cote d'Ivoire. The results of the study show an overall loss of activity of more than 26 percent, with the consequence of destroying more than 130,000 salaried jobs at the end of December 2020 if the situation continues. Faced with the negative effects of this crisis on the economy, the government has announced a number of measures to help businesses.