Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, AFO supports UNOPS operations centres throughout Africa, providing financial oversight of projects, procuring goods and services and managing human resources.
AFO helps ensure that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between projects across the entire region.
As a major regional transport hub, Johannesburg affords excellent connectivity and easy access to UNOPS partners and other important development actors in the region. These include the regional offices of many partner United Nations agencies, governments and non-governmental organizations.
UNOPS establishes operations centres and project centres wherever work volume necessitates. AFO currently supports operations and project centres in:
UNOPS also has offices in Liberia, Nigeria and Ethiopia.
Together these offices provide cost-effective services and support to projects in more than 40 countries across Africa, including in some of the world’s most challenging operational environments, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia.