The Regional Service Centre in Johannesburg serves 22 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. These are
Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania,
Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

We provide policy advice and technical backstopping in the practice areas and cross-cutting themes identified in the UNDP Strategic Plan:

• Poverty eradication and achievement of internationally agreed development goals, including the MDGs;
• Democratic governance;
• Crisis prevention and recovery;
• Environment and sustainable development;
• Gender equality and the empowerment of women;
• Capacity building and development;
• Combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other
  diseases; and
• Knowledge Management.

We also manage regional programmes, which provide support to regional institutions and countries in the subregion. We strive to provide information on good practices by capturing, codifying and sharing experiences and good practices with our clients and partners. We host the Secretariat of the Regional Directors’ Team (RDT), recently re-named UNDG for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNDG-ESA), which supports the UN Country Teams (UNCTs) in implementing the UN Coherence Agenda.

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contact us

UNDP Regional Service Centre – Eastern & Southern Africa (RSC-ESA)
7 Naivasha Road
Sunninghill
Johannesburg 2191
Telephone: +27 11 603 5000
Fax: +27 11 603 5071
Email: registry.rsc.esa@undp.org