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Serie Global Gateway: Educación digital en África Oriental

Article
Voices & Views

La educación digital puede ser un poderoso proveedor de igualdad, desarrollo personal y paz, especialmente en las regiones en conflicto. Entrevistamos a los equipos que hay detrás de dos programas de cooperación internacional con...

Africa
Burundi
Comoros
+17
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Children and Youth
Education
ICT in education
+3
Inclusive education
Quality of education
Employment & VET

Global Gateway Series : L'éducation numérique en Afrique de l'Est

Article
Voices & Views

L'éducation numérique peut être un puissant vecteur d'égalité, de développement personnel et de paix, notamment dans les régions en conflit. Nous avons interviewé les équipes à l'origine de deux programmes de coopération...

Africa
Burundi
Comoros
+17
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Children and Youth
Education
ICT in education
+3
Inclusive education
Quality of education
Employment & VET

Global Gateway Series: Digital education in East Africa

Article
Voices & Views

Digital education can be a powerful purveyor of equality, personal development and peace, especially in conflict regions. We interviewed the teams behind two international cooperation programmes with impressive achievements in e...

Africa
Burundi
Comoros
+17
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Uganda
Tanzania
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Children and Youth
Education
ICT in education
+3
Inclusive education
Quality of education
Employment & VET

COVID-19. How EU Delegations are responding to the pandemic: the case of Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria

Article
Voices & Views

EU Delegations' efforts to assist developing countries to fight the COVID-19 virus and its consequences have been a priority since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. The Heads of Cooperation in Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria are...

Africa
Nigeria
Asia
+1
Kyrgyzstan
Development Effectiveness
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Social Protection and Inclusion
Women in Nigeria

Shifting institutional culture in Nigeria to address the needs of women

Article
Voices & Views

In Nigeria, addressing the question of gender equality and gender issues requires long-term structured engagement. A sense of ownership of the process to implementers and beneficiaries can help drive this process and create a...

Africa
Nigeria
Agriculture & Rural Development
Gender
Gender equality - women's rights
+3
Women's empowerment
Women's organisations
Human Rights

Resilient… but to what?

Article
Voices & Views

There was a question posed more than once at this year’s European Development Days in Brussels. Most participants agreed the concept of “resilience” has been widely embraced since a 2012 EU communication on the topic, but many...

Worldwide
Africa
Nigeria
+4
Asia
Bangladesh
Nepal
Pakistan
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Comprehensive approach
Resilience

EU Mobile Labs: Part of the Solution to Tackle the Ebola Outbreak

Article
Voices & Views

The Ebola outbreak has already taken many lives in Western Africa, and the long-term economic consequences for affected countries are likely to be dramatic. Such crises can easily spiral out of control and affect other parts of...

Africa
Guinea
Liberia
+1
Nigeria
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Health

Working with Opportunity and Risk: Insight to EU Operations in Myanmar

Article
Voices & Views

The government-initiated reforms in Myanmar over the past three years have provided great opportunity for increased development engagement, but the context continues to require sensitive assessments of opportunities and risks. In...

Asia
Myanmar
Democracy
Governance & Corruption
Human Rights

Civil Society Shares Their Experience of the VPA Process at FLEGT Week 2013

Article
Voices & Views

The European Union’s Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) initiative calls on the involvement of civil society in the negotiation and implementation of their Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPA) with timber...

Africa
Ghana
Asia
+2
Indonesia
Myanmar
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Civil Society
Environment & green economy
+1
Forests

How to apply the Communication on Resilience – EC Humanitarian Office's experience from Ethiopia

Article
Voices & Views

At the recent EU Development Days, EuropeAid’s Director of Human and Society Development, Kristian Schmidt underlined that promoting the concept of Resilience will not only save lives, it will save money. But success for...

Africa
Ethiopia
Food & Nutrition Security
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience