The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR), the Office of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Great Lakes region and the German International Cooperation Agency (GIZ) co-organized, from 31 August to 2 September 2021, a high-level workshop on natural resources in the Great Lakes region. The three-day workshop, hosted by the Government of The Sudan in Khartoum was themed “Taking Collective Actions to Achieve Peace and Development Integration in Africa’s Great Lakes region.”