Community Lead – Enterprise Development

Details Mission and objectives The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN’s global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. UNDP is on the ground in some 170 countries and territories, supporting their own solutions to development challenges and developing national and local capacities that will help them achieve human development and the Sustainable Development Goals. Our work is concentrated on three main focus areas: Sustainable development; Democratic governance and peacebuilding; Climate and disaster resilience. UNDP helps countries attract and use aid effectively. In all our activities, we promote gender equality and the protection of human rights. UNDP has enhanced its support to countries to work towards the eradication of extreme poverty, enabling us to build back better and work towards innovative solutions to the complex global challenges. We have refined our service offering through six signature solutions to provide a more integrated response to the development challenges that we are all facing in this complex global environment. This includes a mix of policy advice, technical assistance, catalytic financing and innovative programmes tailored to country specific needs to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals through six our signature solutions on – poverty, governance, resilience, environment, energy, gender equality. Context Kitwe, situated at the heart of Zambia’s Copperbelt, represents a powerful industrial base with a growing urban economy increasingly driven by a dynamic and entrepreneurial youth demographic. While historically rooted in mining, the city possesses a rising hospitality and service landscape, spearheaded by young innovators responding to the need for economic diversification. Beyond its traditional industrial core, Kitwe’s economic fabric extends into pivotal sectors—including manufacturing, Inf