Our mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the well-being of people in the Sahel & West Africa. The Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) is an independent, international platform. Its Secretariat is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people in the Sahel and West Africa. Its objectives are to: •Improve the regional governance of food and nutrition security; •Improve the understanding of ongoing transformations in the region and their policy implications through regional, spatial and forward-looking analyses. …

Sectors: International development

Official account of the United Nations. For peace, dignity & equality on a healthy planet. Founded at the end of the Second World War, the United Nations is an international organization made up of 193 Member States committed to maintaining international peace and security. Every day the UN works to tackle global challenges and deliver results for those most in need. Giving life-saving support to populations hit by humanitarian crises, helping build and keep the peace in conflict-ridden areas, supporting governments and their citizens to advance development and fight poverty, and promoting human rights worldwide are the core pillars of …

Sectors: International development

Building the future of finance at the #HomeofFinTech. Rise, created by Barclays is a global fintech ecosystem made up of cutting-edge start-ups and scale-ups. At Rise, we have created an environment for innovation and growth in financial services through our physical locations in New York and London, and our virtual community in India. Our ecosystem has access to Barclays' network of industry experts, mentors, investors and partners to help founders scale at pace. Onsite and virtually we offer events and mentoring sessions on the topics of all things fintech. We also have the Rise Academies, digital fintech programmes designed to …