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We worked with other UN agencies on the UN75 in Jordan

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Every year we work together with the government ministries/institutions, and non-government stakeholders to celebrate and advocate humanitarian works and workers through the World Humanitarian Day.

Initially, it was always OCHA that led the activities. Through our campaign, we managed to have the Ministry of Social Affairs to lead yearly celebration with participation of more than 50 organizations. We have reached the stage of close relationship with them where it is not OCHA who starts the campaign, but our partners.

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UN-Water is a coordination mechanism for al UN entities that work on water and sanitation plus external stakeholders. Any communications activity we do is always a joint effort to speak as one voice.

The most visible campaigns are the two observances - World Water Day and World Toilet Day. We build Task Forces to join forces to build and implement these campaigns. And we have a communicators network with communications focal points from all UN-Water Members and Partners.

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In Sudan, UNICEF works with UNFPA on the Saleema campaign to stop FGM. We do campaigns and events in this regard. Last year, we held a conference for youth who are part of a youth mechanism that works on fgm and child marriage in different states in Sudan. The conference brought them together for training, to discuss their experiences and to also consolidate a plan.

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Yes, I work on a joint programme with UNICEF to eliminate female genital mutilation and most of our advocacy campaigns are joint.

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Yes, we have worked together in initiatives such as commemorations of UN Observances in the country in which high-level guests have participated, as well as experts, journalist, students, among other groups.

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Yes, international youth day joint UN Vienna campaign to show the multifaceted work done by the UN system on youth-related issues and its openness to CSO

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I have not had yet such experience, apart from re-posting social assets from other agencies and their campaigns

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I started my UN career in 2014 at the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. As a small entity of about 130 people, and with a role to advocate for a disaster risk reduction approach both within and beyond the UN system, we constantly collaborated with other stakeholders on communications. To give one example, 2016 saw the first edition of World Tsunami Awareness Day, created the year before by a UN General Assembly Resolution. We worked with a number of UN agencies in the resilience and development space to develop key messages  that could be used by partners and re-purposed for community-level activities. And then we served as the curator of the campaign, providing a platform where a wide range of stakeholders could upload details of their activities so that they were highlighted at the global level.

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We have collaborated with many other entities and these actions are usually some of the most rewarding and enriching: you get to see how other UN agencies work but at the same time you see for yourself the power of collaborating and pushing intelligently for inevitable overlaps among the general task of the SDGs.

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Florencia S. Murphy - UNIC BA (Argentina)

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Florencia S. Murphy - UNIC BA (Argentina)

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As part of the UNIC team in Buenos Aires, we are constantly working hand-in-hand with colleagues from all the UN Agencies in Argentina to better communicate the work that the UN does in the country. We've had great experiences working in joint events or campaigns with UNICEF, WHO, IOM, OHCHR, OHCR, UNDP and other agencies, boosting the communications efforts of their particulate mandates and integrating the SDGs and the ONE UN perspective into every material.

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OCHA oPt regularly collaborates with UN and non-UN partners on public campaigns and other communications initiatives. A typical example is the annual campaigns around World Humanitarian Day, where multiple organizations come together to highlight the importance of humanitarian work. We have coordinated awareness-raising social media content, radio spots, op-eds, interviews and other means to orchestrate the campaign and better send out our messages to selected audiences.

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In Kenya, the UN Technical Working Group on Adolescents and Youth is chaired by UNFPA. Every quarter, agency comms leads collaborate to produce a newsletter that highlights what the UN is doing around youth and adolescents. I coordinate the production and dissemination of the newsletter.

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We regularly collaborate with other UN organizations on media messaging for crisis communications, and on public campaigns such as on World Humanitarian Day.

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As IOM Türkiye we have collaborated with UNICEF on Preventing Early and Child Marriages projects. Our efforts were fruitful and by joining forces we’ve reached more to our target audience compared to single agency efforts.

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UNWTO has collaborated with many different UN agencies, most notoriously, with WHO in order to design a strategy to restart tourism putting people´s safety first.

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I worked closely with other UN Agencies as part of the COVID 19 response, where WHO led the communication group on multiple initiatives. It was an excellent experience to work on correcting wrong practices among the target audience, particularly related to the pandemic. We also worked on a knowledge product, social media campaign and health workers appreciation. All were directly targeting the public.

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Recently, I've had the opportunity to collaborate with UNEP in the context of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration led by UNEP and FAO. Not only in outward looking joint events but also in internal meetings to guarantee that both staff from the UN agencies leading the Decade are aware of the goals and activities set out in this initial phase. A joint virtual townhall with all UNEP and FAO staff was held with a rich discussion via the chat. This is an example of internal communication to guarantee better external communication on the topics under the Decade.

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I had the opportunity to be the focal point for UNCG in UNHCR Egypt for two years, within this period, knowing that it was mostly during COVID-19, the group worked on the commemoration of UN75 through different task forces, coordinating the efforts of different agencies for the commemoration of other UN days and working on joint events -mostly virtual- and working on COVID-19 awareness campaigns.

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Collaboration with other UN organisations on public campaigns:
- The UN in Mozambique joined efforts for beach cleaning and tree planting. I served as photographer and shared photos with all agencies through the UN Communications Group WhatsApp group. I also created specific social media posts for the two UN agencies that I was working for. This was a positive event, demonstrating presence of the heads of several agencies, and involved government agencies as well, providing positive opportunity to demonstrate collaboration.

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Yet to collaborate on a major campaign besides the requests to retweet and to share develop joint advocacy messages...

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Certainly. As part of the RCO and of UNIC Beirut which is the UNCG Chair, I have coordinated and been part of several public campaigns, including most recently the COVID19 national campaigns on fighting and preventing contamination and vaccination. This is in addition to the national "Take A Step" campaign on the SDGs that contextualizes the SDGs in Lebanon and moves people to care about these goals and take action through simple and daily actions, not to mention the recent campaign on hate speech, which was observed for the first time this year.

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We collaborate with UNICEF for Giga initiative, work quite often with UN Women for the gender related projects. We have many initiatives, reports and campaigns with WHO and smart agriculture reports with FAO.

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Manuel Mabuiangue; IOM Mozambique; Maputo

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Manuel Mabuiangue; IOM Mozambique; Maputo

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yes i have and continue to do so as IOM is the lead agency on displacement

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Yes i have during my time in Congo but i have to admit that on each occasion, it was like pulling teeth. Getting sister agencies to collaborate is quite a challenge.

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We very frequently work with other sister agencies on a number of signature campaigns or events such as: 16 days against gender based violence campaign, healthy diets week campaign, breastfeeding week and many more.

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UNDP collaborated with UNMAS and other agencies working on mine action to mark Mine Action Day in 2022. It also marked 30 years of UNDP work in mine action. It was an important moment for UNDP and being part of an agency-wide communications campaign meant we had significantly wider impact for our comms effort and we were able to demonstrate our strong partnerships.

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Coordinating UNCG, UNIC Rio always plans and implements joint activities for UN Day, 16 days of activism against violence against women, Youth Days and other activities. In 2022 we invited several UNCG members to joint SDG´s activities with some of our partners, including Rock in Rio.

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I worked as communications officer for RCO Viet Nam organizing many interagency events and campaigns. Along with the UN Reform, "Communicating as One UN" was a critical strategy for the work of UN in Viet Nam. However, due to different systems and competing priorities among agencies, on top of lack of budget to resource joint communications activity, it was very challenging to work together. Also, everyone was already very stretched to support individual agencies' work as such joint activities were planned on needs basis and was extra work.

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At UNDP, we continue to collaborate both with the UNCG and individual agencies on common thematic areas, and this is a part of our workplan for the year as well. An example of an excellent collaboration was for World Gastronomy Day last year. While UNDP is not usually associated with the day, we took the chance in working together with both FAO and WFP in creating a dedicated episode on a popular Sri Lankan Food YouTube channel to highlight the importance of preparing healthy and nutritious curries, with minimum wastage using renewable or sustainable energy. Each agency played to its strengths and provided input on their expertise. From UNDP, a biogas cooker which had been introduced to the market through a flagship project was used in the preparation of the dish. Comms focal points worked together from inception phase, identifying and liaising with the YouTuber, providing key messages we required to be covered, and thereafter promoting the video among staff and networks.
The video received great reviews and has more than 22K views, while providing audiences with the knowledge and information on purchasing their own biogas cookers from the market.

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I have collaborated with a number of UN organizations on comms campaigns including for Intl Mine Awareness Days and Intl Day of Indigenous Peoples. I've had pretty encouraging experiences, especially when planned in advance to get buy-in/agreement from partners. Comms teams are eager for new well designed content and for higher level campaigns, once the orgs principals sign off, you have solid top cover to promote all down the chain and across the teams (use of logos, various languages, etc.).

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I can think of two examples of the UN working together as one in the context of the United Arab Emirates.
First, is collaborating together to showcase our agencies at DIHAD, which is an annual humanitarian conference organized in Dubai. We come together to exhibit in one booth with the presence of each agency. We work together on design aspects and coordinate high-level meetings and with partners.
The second example is collaborating at the UN Hub in Expo Dubai 2020. All agencies alternated on utilizing the hub's space to organize exhibitions and events that highlight the mandates and work of each agency, in a collaborative manner that reflects the overarching umbrella of the UN Sustainable Goals.

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The UNCG in Lebanon has been promoting an integrated communication campaign entitled #TakeAStep to promote the SDGs and the UN Strategic Framework with Lebanon. This campaign involves all UN agencies and its taskforce includes 13 UN agencies, funds, programmes and missions. #TakeAStep is mostly an online social media campaign, but includes multiple activations, including on-ground activities that are reproduced in videos and PR stunts, TV and radio spots, animated videos, songs, social media polls, visuals etc.. The joint work of all agencies proved very successful in leading the narrative as one UN and addressing the public as one by engaging with them and inviting them to take simple actions that could lead to big changes.

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Jeshta Connery, Communications Officer, RCO, Mauritius

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Jeshta Connery, Communications Officer, RCO, Mauritius

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Our UNCG group is less than a year old. At the moment we are working on building buy-in for communicating together. Individual agencies certainly work together effectively and coherently on joint programming and different initiatives but joint communications at the moment is more of an add-on and happens on an ad hoc basis. We are currently in the process of finalising our Joint UNCT Communications Strategy.

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I have not so far worked on any campaigns- but I have worked with colleagues in other agencies around a joint event. We worked together to develop messaging, products and coordination.

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I am a member of the UNCG in Somalia and we continue to work together on several internal and public communication initiatives. A recent one was the organization of a media visit by international journalists to Somalia to cover the impact of the ongoing severe drought conditions in the country.
We started by developing a joint drought advocacy strategy highlighting a harmonized understanding of the context, based on the Key messages that we developed jointly on the drought situation. We also agreed on the areas most affected hence requiring media attention and also hon the support needed by each agency.
We held several planning meetings and also agreed on the division of responsibilities and sharing of expenses.
The mission was successful, conducted in the context of the "One UN Approach" and it helped raised attention and visibility to the crisis, which subsequently resulted in additional resources for the emergency-not sufficient but a good start.
Working together with one voice is indeed critical in ensuring that the response is well understood and that coordination of the efforts is done in a strategic way to avoid the pitfalls of duplication and wastage of resources. The needs of the community were highlighted and we continue to use this platform to call for additional assistance in this regard.

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Together with UN RCO and UN Women, we have organized a great exhibition for 16 Days of Activism. Our joint comms efforts allowed for:
- mobilization of more funds (we chipped in together and also mobilized some funds from a donor);
- joined our efforts to amplify the message;
- organized a great launch where HoAs and RC were present, which allowed for better visibility in the media;
- exercised a 'One UN' approach and spoke with one voice;
- joined our human capital, which allowed for greater creativity and the division of labour

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I have been chairing UNCG Libya for almost 2 years now. We had a joint UN75 campaign in 2020 which was a huge success. We have envisioned ourselves as UN in Libya and have our social media pages. We have communicated on the issues of communications around CVOID-19 and also became a strong voice for UN while celebrating various international days. We developed various joint articles, and other communication products in Libya

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I as Comms focal of UNFPA Myanmar, we usually work with UN Women for the International Women Day, UNOCHA for World Humanitarian Day, and again with UNWOMEN and UNDP for 16 Days of Activism on Gender-based Violence. Working with partners create more impact on the public campaign and have better inclusion on diverse groups.

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Recently I worked closely with UNHCR on a a press and PR initiative to inform people fleeing the war on safe options for transmitting Moldova and into the EU. It proved the adage that "if you want to go fast travel alone, if you want to go far, travel together" and appropriately my counterpart on this was an African comms colleague! By agreeing our field perspective we were able to steer our mini-campaign through the choppy seas of HQ in record time, and we also go considerable media pickup. Furthermore, it allowed us to address the difficult topic of counter-trafficking and people-smuggling.

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Each year, OCHA organizes something called World Humanitarian Day. In Iraq, we use this as an opportunity to engage the rest of the UN Country Team on issues related to the importance of reminding the public and other actors that humanitarian workers are "Not a Target." We produce Trello boards an key messaging and disseminate widely for everyone's use.

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I fortunately work closely with UNCG and UNIC being part of the COP27 Communication taskforce.
Our joint collaborations contributes to the COP27 preparations and its agenda.
The Comms. Taskforce are working on the  engagement plan on COP27 and most importantly on the key messages that need to be drawn and disseminated jointly on COP27, sharing success stories to be showcased at the COP27 side events,
and work closely with the government of Egypt to ensure alignment with the government plans and timely engagement of the UN agencies in the COP27 preparations events.

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Our Field Office implements a few projects in partnerships with other agencies, such as the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE), which involves several UN Agencies with different roles.

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Lenka Ctvrteckova, UNICEF Czech Republic

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Lenka Ctvrteckova, UNICEF Czech Republic

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I have not so far, however, I will hope that an opportunity emerges soon.

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I am overjoyed to see that my direct team and brilliant supervisor, Khetam, featured in Case Study #3 of the UNCG Jordan. I have learned so much from her on the power of joint communications initiatives, but one of my favorite joint initiatives which I actively work on has to be our UN Jordan joint Quarterly newsletter. At the end of each quarter of the year, I reach out to the UNCG Jordan to call for contributions of their highlights of activities under a common theme which we designate.

Once the Newsletter is produced, it is wonderful to see how all the individual stories come together under one theme, and end up creating a cohesive story that is greater than the sum of its part, because it really puts into perspective all the great work that the UN is doing in one country. Many times, we also find stories amongst this newsletter that forms, and we have contributed many to the Global UNSDG website.

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In Somalia, the UNCG works with all agencies, funds and programs including regional players in the Horn of Africa. We have successfully carried out various campaigns in partnership, particularly during Covid and now with raising awareness on the drought situation in Somalia.

The UNCG team has been critical in sharing factual information as well as in showing what the UN is doing directly and through implementing partners.

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I haven't actively cooperated with other UN agencies, however, I try to at least tag respective agencies when publishing content highlighting UN International Days.

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I have not so far

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I have had the opportunity to collaborate with all UN agencies in Rwanda on campaigns to celebrate UN Day 2021. It was an eventful day, we started with a run and also gave an opportunity to UN staff, their families and partners donated blood. This was during the COVID19 so it gave an opportunity to staff to exercise and give back through blood donations while reinforcing the UN's role of giving hope. I also collaborated with other agencies during the 16days of activism in November 2021. This is a campaign led by UN Women so the solidarity walk helped to galvanize the public to learn and understand their role to end GBV in all its forms.

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UN Women CO collaborated with all the UN Agencies to host 2021's UN Day. It was a unique and very enriching opportunity to get to know the amazing work all the UN agencies are doing while at the same time collectively giving the message of hope and strengthening the 'One UN'

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The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence is a public campaign led by UNFPA in Lao PDR in cooperation with UN agencies and other stakeholders. The campaign is very popular and is implemented yearly. Working as the Comms person for RCO, I work closely with UNFPA and encourage UNCG in the country to support the campaign. We run the campaign through videos and photos on Facebook which is the most popular social media channels in Laos. We organized talks at large and small scales. We invite KoLs and leaders to join the campaign and share their views through videos. We work with media to spread the campaign messages through op-eds and articles.

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Unfortunately, I haven't participated in any other UN organisation Yet, hope to do so in the near future especially after what I learned from the course.

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I have collaborated with a range of UN organizations on public-facing campaigns. My experiences have been varied and have run the gamut from seamless collaboration to very fractured messaging. I have found that the communicators all tend to get along well, but that other organizational issues - such as differing policy stances, interagency politics - can be an impediment.

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As PIO to the DSRSG/RC/HC and UNCG coordinator, I organized with UN Women and UNFPA, a training session for women journalists of Tanganyika province in DR Congo. The main focus was:

Women Leadership in the newsroom
Dealing with victims of sexual violence
Transition process of UN Mission in DR Congo.

We also had the opportunity to do a focus group with the SRSG (head of mission) on the challenges women journalists face in their work in the context of redeployment of UN mission in the province.

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In Somalia, while working with the Information support team ( AUUNIST) I had the opportunity to work with UNSOM, UNSOS and AMISOM on different campaigns. In Somalia, women are only allowed to acquire 30% of the seats in the parliament. In order to achieve this, there was a collaborative call to action by all stakeholders to achieve the 30% quota.  There was tailored social media campaign, several events, focus group meetings and media events to encourage leaders to act and influence young women to be part of the solutions. The most important campaigns require a working partnerships by different stakeholders to deliver key messages and influence action or change of behaviour.

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The UNDP Gender Team has collaborated with UN Women on a number of global communications initiatives, such as the launch of the COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker, which monitors governments' gender-sensitive responses to the pandemic. Working together we can better amplify the findings of our research and reach a wider audience, as well as complement the skill sets of those on our teams.

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Agnes Kante, UNAIDS Liaison Office to the AU and ECA, Addis Ababa 

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Agnes Kante, UNAIDS Liaison Office to the AU and ECA, Addis Ababa 

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At the UNAIDS Liaison Office, we collaborate with multiple stakeholders which include the African Union to position HIV on the continental political agenda which also requires to engage other UN agencies based on their respective mandate for the biggest impact. For example, we partnered with WHO, UNFPA, UNWOMEN and UNESCO on a campaign on sexual health for AGYW (1millionYouthVoices) and to end SGBV, but also on "FreetoShine campaign" on eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission and pediatric AIDS along with the African First Ladies for Development ongoing since 2018.

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The UNCG in Mali works together to communicate jointly, especially, when international days and UN’s flagship activities requiring ONE UN communication.

One of the campaigns I participated in as a Communication Officer at the RCO with other UN agencies was on March 8, 2021, giving coverage and expanding the dissemination of the messages proposed by UN Women through ONU au Mali social media. Furthermore, at the regional level, they selected our tweets as an example to create a great mosaic from all over Africa about what was disseminated on social media that day in the accounts of the United Nations or RCs around women's day.

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In the Caribbean UNAIDS collaborated with PAHO/WHO on the "In Your Hands" campaign which advocated for HIV self-testing to be implemented nationally. The strategy had two branches. First, to make the case with governments (Health Ministries, AIDS programmes) directly about using this approach to offset declines in testing uptake during COVID-19. Secondly, we helped increase demand among civil society organizations in the region so they could advocate themselves for this policy and programmatic shift.

The beauty of collaborating with PAHO and other key organizations is that beyond advocacy, the coalition could offer hands-on support with policy development, pilot roll-out, transition from pilots to national programmes, procurement etc.

So far, two additional countries in the region have begun offering HIV self-testing at national level and others are in the pipeline.

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When UNAIDS' Executive Director visited Zambia two weeks ago, we made use of the UN Information Centre (UNIC) in our country, who leads the UNCG and has well-established networks and contacts within the media and press. The result was one of the most successful country missions that our ED has ever been on! We had over 20 articles written and published online and in print over five days, were headlined on the radio and tv news daily, and even managed to snag two high-profile televised interviews with our ED. We got the UNAIDS message out to all key decision makers (incl. President and key ministers), the public and the rest of the world.

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Through a number of social media campaigns, we have collaborated with other UN agencies - both to promote events and to have a unified voice on International Days. The latter has been quite effective. Through the sharing of resources developed by the lead agency e.g. UN Women for International Day of the Girl, allows us to amplify the incredible work being done by that agency while demonstrating unity as one UN.

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In Namibia, the UNCG plays a big role especially on commemorating international days.

Some campaigns that I have collaborated with other UN agencies include the Covid-19 misinformation campaign which was between UNDP, WHO and UNIC.

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In Ecuador, I have had the opportunity to collaborate the last 3 years in two campaigns against xenophobia, a coordinated work between IOM, UNHCR, OCR and UN Women and although the four agencies decide on the content, many other agencies share in their social networks and join our campaign.
I invite you to visit https://humano.ec/

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Last year, I proposed and implemented the communication initiative "Climate Action Stories" to promote and highlight the UN-partnered CSOs/NGOs' action stories globally. There was initially a huge challenge; the types of climate action and civil society networks are so diverse that outreach has to be strategic to represent different voices globally. So I called for cooperation through facilitating an inter-agency meeting of UN system CSO focal points from 17 different UN offices/entities. Then I collaborated extensively with different agencies/offices especially with DESA and UNEP to conduct targeted outreach to ECOSOC-accredited and UNEP accredited entities in addition to our department's network of DGC-associated entities. This inter-agency outreach enabled action stories submitted from over 200 entities from 80 countries, also achieving a large number of around 50,000 social media engagements.

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The Stop Rape Now (STR) campaign is run by the UN Action Against Sexual Violence in Conflict, a network of 21 UN entities that work together to eliminate the scourge of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV). The Chair of UN Action is the SRSG-SVC. The STR campaign was launched over 10 years ago and it was endorsed and supported by celebrities like Nicole Kidman and others. The strength of this campaign is indeed the coordination of the 21 UN entities that bring to the table their own expertise in addressing CRSV.

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During the last 12 months I worked as communications focal point in RCO Burkina Faso . Therefore i worked with all the comms colleagues within the system on various initiatives and activities .

First i managed the whole process on implementing the new UN Burkina Website started two years ago . It has been challenging when it comes in gathering all the necessary information from colleagues who were sometimes not collaborative .

Secondly we celebrated UN75 with all the UN agencies by really working together. We organized an intergenerational panel with young people that has been beneficial for everyone in terms of listening and understanding youth concerns and expectations .

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As coordinator of comms in the UNCT Morocco, the UNIC Rabat assists to inter agency campaigns in Morocco.
In this regard, I had the pleasure to take part to the recent #NotoHate campaign, as the UNIC was leading the way for this first celebration of the International Day for countering Hate Speech (adopted by the UNGA on proposal of the Kingdom of Morocco).
This campaign in social media has been shared by the UN Agencies in Morocco (in their respective platforms). A media and press campaign has been organized by the UNIC in several moroccan media.
I collaborate also with several other UN organizations in support to their campaign as for example the 16 days of activism for violence against women: Lead UNWomen, endorsed by the whole UNCG Morocco.

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Having worked with our director at WHO-HQ who was focal for the global HCG, I have had the opportunity to collaborate with partner UN agencies on several high-level Pledging Events for humanitarian countries. These events allowed me not only to engage with these sister agencies' super-talented and relentlessly dedicated comms colleagues in developing or contributing to One UN messaging approach; it gave me a chance to highlight our work at WHO (particularly on the health-specific aspects of the campaigns) to the broader UN advocacy and pledging events.

My reflection from this experience is one that we already know: when we collaborate more strongly, it really brings out a more credible UN (system) in any campaign we take part in -- especially when we face immense doubt and pressure from outside the system. Having a unified message also brings about the solidarity that we speak about tirelessly; and makes for a better investment case to our donor Member States.

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In my previous assignment at OHCHR, we used to collaborate and coordinate with other UN agencies in field offices to support the activities of the Human Rights Day.

Many aspects of human rights are common values shared with other entities; migration, health, education, etc
From headquarters we created the core messages, for instance, the theme for each year was decided. Then, field offices suggested activities linked to that celebration, depending on the priorities for each region/country. Other international Organisations, such as the European Union, or NGOs that were also invited to collaborate in the programmes.

From Headquarters we also evaluated the proposals to contribute with budget to the organisation of the activities or to channel other entities' contributions.

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OCHA leads the Communications Group that is attached to to the Humanitarian Country Team in CAR. We have a joint annual strategy and work plan and one of the major campaigns is the World Humanitarian Day campaign, which includes a variety of elements from social media sub-campaigns, public outreach, influencers, radio spots and round tables, media outreach etc. In addition to UN organizations, the Group also contains NGO Comms colleagues (from individual NGOs and from their overarching coordination forum). The work in the group allows us to align humanitarian messaging, amplify each other's communications efforts and exchange and benefit from each other's experiences and knowledge.

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When COVID 19 hit no one in Zimbabwe was prepared. The lockdown meant it was difficult to go about normal business. Access to contraceptives was difficult for marginalized communities. WFP with its largest footprint in Zimbabwe was still giving support. A joint campaign with UNFP and WFP was implemented to allow us to teach communities on COVID 19, and Sexual Reproductive Health at the same time distributing food. When UN agencies come together to deliver as one it always leaves a lasting positive impact.

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I worked with UNAIDs, UNDP and WHO to work on campaigns for raising awareness on HIV and scaling up programmatic intervention for responding to surge in HIV cases. It was a good experience to work in unison and synergize and create an impact.

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UNFPA and UNDP in The Gambia collaborated to advocate for increased representation of women in leadership and decision making processes. Through this campaign dubbed #AskAWoman2Run, both traditional and social media platforms were used to disseminate the message of the campaign and as a result, the country recorded an increased number of women (19) vying for parliamentary seats in April parliamentary elections.

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As head of UNCG France (very small group), we have co lead with UNESCO the organisation of several UNdays celebration in Paris at UNESCO, open to students. Each year we choose a different topic (Climate change, human rights, sustainable cities). Each UN entities was holding a stand, we organised a conference  with UN experts and also offered to students conferences abot UN careers. Due to Covid, we have suspended the event. We also face funding issues.
Unric France also worked with OHCHR Geneva to support a Mobile film Festival edition on Human rights. etc

We are also collaborating with UN agencies in Brussels to organise  CINE ONU, cross promote campaigns in Europe etc, bring support to big events like the European development days (EDD)

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I have had the opportunity to collaborate with other UN organizations in DR on communications initiatives such as "Girl Day" and interagency projects to end early pregnancies and unions. It has definitely been an honor and certainly better results are obtained when we work together.