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Migration management: One year on from the launch of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection & Reintegration

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Voices & Views

With over 3,500 migrants rescued from the desert and 15,000 assisted in returning home from dire situations across the Central Mediterranean routes, the first year of the EU-IOM joint initiative has yielded substantive results...

Africa
Libya
Burkina Faso
+12
Côte d'Ivoire
The Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Cameroon
Chad
Humanitarian Aid
Protection
Relief co-ordination, protection and support services
+7
Migration & Forced Displacement
Smuggling of Migrants & Trafficking in human beings
Legal pathways
Migration dialogues
Migration policy
Refugees
South-South migration

Supporting Young Peacebuilders to Counter Extremism

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Voices & Views

Development gains are easily undermined by rising extremism in fragile contexts. In response, donors are keen to embed elements of CVE, or ‘combatting violent extremism’, in their cooperation programmes. Engaging young people in...

Africa
Morocco
Tunisia
+4
Asia
Lebanon
Syria
Europe
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience

Protecting Soil Fertility: Protecting Life

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Voices & Views

There is much discussion in the development arena about the struggle ahead to feed the seven plus billion, of the methods proposed towards food security, building resilience, safeguarding water resources and so on. But few stop to...

Africa
Algeria
Egypt
+4
Libya
Morocco
Tunisia
Europe
Agriculture & Rural Development
Biodiversity & Ecosystem
Climate change & disaster risks
+2
Environment & green economy
Forests

New Ways to Help Women Entrepreneurs Impact on MENA Economies

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Voices & Views

Participants at a high level panel discussion entitled, “Women Entrepreneurship to Reshape the Economy through Innovation in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA)” held during the 2012 European Development Days explored ways...

Africa
Egypt
Morocco
+5
Tunisia
Asia
Jordan
Pakistan
Europe
Capacity Development
Gender
Knowledge Management
+3
Learning
Private Sector
Trade & Economic Integration

Protecting Water Resources in the Niger River Basin

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Voices & Views

The ACP-EU Water Facility is one of the key results of the European Union Water Initiative, an international political initiative in place since 2002. Andre Liebaert, Water Policy Officer at EuropeAid, highlights important themes...

Africa
Benin
Burkina Faso
+5
Guinea
Mali
Niger
Nigeria
Cameroon
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Developing Civil Society after the ‘Arab Spring’: Lessons Learned from the EU Delegation in Tunisia

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Voices & Views

With the fall of Ben Ali’s government at the beginning of 2011, space was suddenly created for the emergence of civil society in Tunisia. In the frenetic eleven months that followed, the European Commission (EC) was able to fund...

Africa
Tunisia
Europe
Development Effectiveness
Capacity Development
Civil Society
+3
Governance & Corruption
Knowledge Management
Learning

Cyber Activism and the Tunisian Revolution – an Insiders' Testimony

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Voices & Views

Social media did not "cause" the end of Ben Ali’s reign last year, but it played a vital role in accelerating the course of events and enhancing the citizens' capacity to impact political events, according to Tunisian cyber...

Africa
Tunisia
Europe
Communicating Development Cooperation
Digitalisation