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Euroclima, as part of the Global Gateway strategy, builds partnerships between the European Union (EU) and the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) regions to drive a green and just transition. Through bilateral dialogues and regional collaboration, the programme engages with 33 partner countries and key regional organisations to identify priorities and translate them into concrete actions, fostering long-term environmental and climate resilience. By creating the right conditions and supporting key initiatives in priority sectors, Euroclima helps establish a solid foundation for a sustainable transition. The programme also facilitates the mobilisation of climate and green financing, addressing urgent environmental challenges.

The Regional Teachers Initiative for Africa supports teacher professional development and teacher governance in Sub-Saharan Africa to ensure that schools have enough skilled and motivated teachers to deliver quality education. The initiative will contribute to regional and national objectives by supporting and complementing national education and teacher reforms, offering opportunities for countries to work together, supporting partnerships and peer learning for teachers in the region, and also to work with Europe. Within the RTIA, the Regional Facility for Teachers in Africa, supports regional and national initiatives aimed at providing quality education by operating through a multifaceted approach, which includes three complementary components. The RTIA Facility is supported by France, Finland and Belgium. It complements the other two components of the RTIA, which focus on enhancing teacher professional development, support, and collaboration across Africa, and facilitating policy research, exchange and peer learning to ensure consistency between global, regional, and national efforts and are which are led by the African Union Commission and UNESCO respectively.

The NaturAfrica West Africa regional programme supports a network of key transboundary landscapes for conservation and development in West Africa, with the aim of sustainably managing wildlife and stimulating local economic growth, supporting ecosystems and ensuring resilience in the face of increasing external pressure.

El Programa Amazonia+, financiado por la Unión Europea y lanzado en julio de 2023 en Leticia, Colombia, abarca los ocho países amazónicos: Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Perú, Surinam y Venezuela. Los socios estratégicos a nivel regional incluyen la Organización del Tratado de Cooperación Amazónica (OTCA) y la Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA). El programa tiene como objetivo fortalecer las capacidades de los gobiernos y comunidades amazónicos para reducir y prevenir la deforestación mediante una cooperación regional reforzada. El programa es implementado por las agencias de cooperación italiana (AICS), francesa (Expertise France) y española (FIAP), así como por el Centro Común de Investigación de la Unión Europea.

Co-funded by the European Union under the European Commission’s new Thematic Framework Partnership Agreement for Human Rights and Democracy, AGILE supports independent media in countries where media freedom is under acute attack.

The Africa-Europe Youth Academy is one of the flagships of the Youth Action Plan in European Union external action (YAP) and part of the Global Gateway Africa-Europe Investment Package under the ‘Youth Mobility for Africa Flagship’.

O RETFOP é concebido como um mecanismo para apoiar e facilitar a política pública de ETFP, dando resposta sistémica aos problemas identificados através de uma combinação entre Estudos, Assessoria a Política Pública, Capacitação e

EvalVoices is a space for evaluators, by evaluators—a platform driven by voices from the field to advance how we talk about and practise evaluation. Anchored in the EU’s commitment to an “evaluate first” culture, as highlighted in the EU Evaluation Policy and the Better Regulation Guidelines, the EvalVoices initiative serves as an inclusive platform to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and insights amongst evaluation professionals and thought leaders. It explores what works, and what doesn’t under which circumstances – while sharing cutting-edge tools, methods and approaches that shape relevant, context sensitive, inclusive, and successful evaluation practices.

The MAPS Project is a three-year initiative aiming at strengthening policy-making and programming on migration and forced displacement in Sub-Saharan Africa. With a €10 million budget funded primarily by the European Commission, MAPS brings together a multidisciplinary network of African and European partners—including Sapienza University of Rome, five Italian universities with UNESCO Chairs, and universities in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, and Spain. It is supported by advisory bodies such as the IOM Regional Data Hub and the University of the Witwatersrand.