| Overview : The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) facilitates access to public and private capital for the poorest populations in the world's 46 least developed countries (LDCs). As part of its mandate to provide capital and investment instruments, UNCDF offers "last mile" financing models to unlock public and private resources, including at the national level, to reduce poverty and encourage local economic development. UNCDF's financing models operate through three axes, namely: 1) inclusive digital economies, which connect individuals, households and small businesses to financial ecosystems that catalyze participation in the local economy and provide tools to overcome poverty and manage their financial lives; 2) financing for local development, which enables municipalities to boost local economic expansion and sustainable development through fiscal decentralization, innovative municipal financing and structured project finance; and 3) investment finance, which provides catalytic financial structuring, risk reduction and deployment of investments to foster the impact of the SDGs and resource mobilization at the national level. UNCDF's digital strategy aims to leave no one out of the digital age. UNCDF supports the promotion of inclusive digital economies at national and regional levels, in close coordination with governments, regulators, the private sector and academia. Particular attention is paid to the development of appropriate services to bridge the digital divide and empower key customer segments (youth, women, migrants, refugees, and micro-small and medium-sized enterprises). The approach is organized into four areas: policies and regulations, open digital payment ecosystem, inclusive innovation and customer empowerment: https://www.uncdf.org/article/4931/global-strategy-leaving-no-one-behind-in-the-digital-era . UNCDF is implementing its inclusive digital economy strategy that leaves no one out of Burkina Faso. UNCDF supports Burkina Faso in the implementation of its development priorities through several projects. Nowadays, digital technology plays a very important role in the process of structural transformation of the economy, the acceleration of economic and social development and the achievement of the SDGs. Therefore, Burkina Faso intends to turn resolutely to digital technology to accompany and support the development of priority sectors. To this end, the establishment of digitalized community centers is one of the actions that can contribute to it. A community center or multimedia center is a room grouping a set of computer equipment that promotes, popularizes the use of digital technology. It can be assimilated to a point of accessibility to the Internet connection and to information and communication technologies open to young people and the various socio-economic actors. Seen as digital mini-technopoles, these centers will be spaces for incubation, acceleration and co-working of young people. UNCDF, in the continuity of its support to the Government, plans to accompany the development of a project document for the digitalization of community centers that is part of the National Strategy for the Development of the Digital Economy 2018 – 2027, to support the development process of the inclusive digital economy in Burkina Faso. This project will allow the digitization of community or multimedia centers through the pilot technopole that will be tested in Ouagadougou and amplified in the thirteen (13) regions of Burkina Faso. For further details, please click this link: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?job_id=102496 | 
