Global Water Partnership Southern Africa 125d ago

The UNDP-GEF Project “Supporting Sustainable Inclusive Blue Economy Transformation in African Small Island Developing States (African SIDS), through the African Union Commission and GWPSA, participated in an IW: Learn Twinning Exchange organised as part of the Global Environment Facility International Waters (GEF IW): LEARN 5 initiatives to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing between International Waters projects across regions. The exchange activities took place in Colombia and Belize from 27 October to 4 November 2025. Under this framework, the African SIDS Blue Economy Project (implemented by GWPSA) and the PROCARIBE+ Project (implemented by UNOPS) have been formally twinned to strengthen mutual learning and build capacity for sustainable and inclusive Blue Economy development in both the African and Caribbean SIDS regions. The Africa SIDS Project is financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and led by UNDP as the GEF Implementing Agency, in partnership with GWPSA as the Executing Agency, while the African Union Commission is the focal custodian of the project implementation. It is being implemented in Cabo Verde, Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Seychelles. Here’s a short highlights video on the twinning exchange: