A workshop on developing effective communication strategies and interventions to alter the impact of prevalent narratives encouraging violent extremism in Sub Saharan Africa has ended in Accra-Ghana assembling Civil Society Organisation CSOs from the sub region. UNDP Mobile App Launch Accra Ghana Organised by the United Nations Development Programme UNDP in partnership with Albany Associates, the workshop from the 16 - 21 st of April had the approval and launching of a Mobile Application to help design campaigns to prevent violent extremism as the major outcome. Speaking at the workshop, Lamin Manneh, Director, UNDP Regional Service Centre for Africa, stated, “We contribute to the prevention of violent extremism by supporting development solutions that target the root causes and structural drivers of violent extremism. From 2011 to 2016, it caused 33,300 fatalities as well as widespread displacement, creating situations of pronounced and critical humanitarian need.”