The recent large-scale discovery of valuable extractive resources oil, gas and minerals in Eastern and Southern Africa presents great potential for shared economic growth and could drastically reduce poverty levels in these countries. The oil, gas and mineral value chains have important opportunities and considerations for women’s engagement, which are currently not being fully realized.
The objective of the “One UN” is to improve the impact, coherence, efficiency, effectiveness and positioning of the UN system in Kenya to enable it better assist the country to meet the MDGs and Vision 2030. This will be achieved through One Programme, One Budgetary Framework, One Office, One Leader and Communicating as One.