DeltasUNite is a multi-stakeholder platform led by African Centre for Climate Actions and Rural Development Initiative (ACCARD), composed of local communities, academia, governments, civil societies, private sector and other delta communities and interest groups. With a common goal to find sustainable solutions to the growing challenges in our coastal and marine environment globally, particularly river facing- ocean deltas resulting in food insecurity, pollution, livelihood and biodiversity losses, forced migration, displacement and conflict through actionable and inclusive solutions.

DeltasUNite stakeholders approached the United Nations (UN) at the 2023 International Water Week in New York to request a United Nations Convention for the Conservation of River Deltas, and was unveiled at COP28 in Dubai by stakeholders led by His Excellency, Senator Duoye Diri, the Governor of Nigeria’s Bayelsa State and a large delegation from other countries including Pakistan and United States. The United Nations Convention for Conserving River Deltas (UNCCRD), when operationalised, will be a game-changer as the first bottom-up UN convention, equal seat for local communities to promotes active participation of indigenous peoples and local communities in local-to-global policy and decision-making processes, and citizen science.