Regional Innovation Analyst

2 weeks ago

Pretoria, South Africa United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Full time

**Background**

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UNDP’s Strategic Plan 2022-2025 is grounded in UNDP’s continued commitment to eradicating poverty, accompanying countries in their pathways towards the SDGs and working towards the Paris Agreement. It envisions bold goals, making a difference to millions of lives through Six Signature Solutions, namely: 1. Poverty and inequality; 2. Governance; 3. Resilience; 4. Environment; 5. Energy; and 6. Gender Equality. These six signature solutions are powered by digitalization, innovation, and development financing. The Renewed Strategic Offer in Africa by UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa (RBA) is organized around six strategic impact areas, namely Structural economic transformation, Peace and security, Natural resource governance, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Women and youth empowerment, and Affordable sustainable energy. These rely on six foundational enablers, namely 1) governance of things; 2) digital transformation; 3) sustainable/innovative financing; 4) strategic communication and partnerships; 5) South-South cooperation; and 6) development intelligence.

Around the world access to technology has increased and the costs of starting and running a business have declined increasing the number of and the speed of growth of tech and tech-enabled start-ups across the world. Start-ups, distinguished from traditional micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), are defined as ventures that are innovation-based, tech enabled and scalable, with potential for high impact in terms of job creation and positive disruption of traditional ways of doing things. As the world transitions from the industrial age to the information age, start-ups are penetrating and reinventing every aspect of human activity. These range from government, finance, defence, media and culture, to communication, health and even education, agriculture, energy and fashion. Start-ups generate employment. Among the insights generated by a Kauffman Foundation study was the finding that start-ups were responsible for all net new jobs created in the United States between 1986 and 2014. In South Africa, the National Development Plan predicts that by 2030, 11 million new jobs will be generated by small businesses. Some of the companies that will drive the global economy by 2035 may not even exist today. Against this backdrop, a global start-up revolution has begun and UNDP seeks to support this sector’s growth by enhancing the support ecosystem for innovative entrepreneurs.

Africa in particular has witnessed a surge of interest in entrepreneurship over the past five years. Across the continent, there has been a proliferation of start-up hubs, incubators and accelerators, business-pitch competitions and other efforts as governments, donors and private actors have rightly focused on the entrepreneurship challenge. However, a pervasive challenge seems to be creating significant traction; and transitioning from idea or early start-up stage to scale-up. The stakes for Africa’s emerging innovation economy are high. Africa is the world’s youngest continent and home to half the world’s mobile money users. It is also the most entrepreneurial continent. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 22% of the population were engaged in their own businesses. Thus, Africa’s youth start-ups have massive potential to transform livelihoods, create jobs, positively impact the environment and generate economic value. The spirit of innovation is alive and well in Africa, but in order for it to scale and create transformational movements, the necessary elements should be in place within a conducive ecosystem. These include seed and growth-phase financing, university research labs, service providers, corporate engagement and more.

UNDP has launched several programmes in the recent years to support innovation entrepreneurship across the world, including its accelerator programme and the timbuktoo programme. The timbuktoo initiative in particular aims to directly advance the achievement of the SDGs through the results of its “technology for good” offer in Africa. Of particular relevance in this regard is the potential for supporting innovations at scale in fintech, agritech, health tech, climate and energy, waste, logistics, commerce, trade, smart cities, mobility, tourism, the creative industry, mine tech and education. Timbuktoo seeks to provide a

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