Projects

VCA4D provides a detailed VC analysis, taking into account the economic, social and environmental dimensions of a sustainable and inclusive development.

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 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’.

The Latin America and Caribbean Investment Facility (LACIF) is a blending facility that leverages financing to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. LACIF collaborates with national governments, development banks, and the private sector to co-finance investment projects to achieve sustainable and inclusive development.

The Continental Energy Programme in Africa (CEPA) is an EU-funded initiative under Global Gateway supporting Africa’s just and inclusive energy transition.

WYDE aims to promote political pluralism and the inclusiveness of democratic processes by significantly enhancing the participation of youth and women in all aspects of public life. The many legal, cultural and economic barriers to women's and youth political participation are being identified, measured and mapped. The program enables women and youth themselves to carry out the awareness and advocacy actions needed to overcome or remove these barriers. The program’s name stands for Women and Youth in Democracy initiative. It was decided by INTPA’s youth sounding board based on a series of options set by EPD’s junior officers. The Youth Action Plan has WYDE as one of its main flagships. It represents a total effort of EUR 43 million invested from EU’s Human Rights and Democracy thematic program. WYDE also aims at addressing the increasing distrust of young people in institutions and political systems. Therefore, WYDE contributes to better inform, network and empower young people so that they can actively, safely and legally participate in democracy support, civic activism and political office. Learning by doing, empowering through subgrants accompanied with coaching, is at the core-heart of the methodology. The WYDE Civic engagement chapter has already distributed 50 small grants accompanied with expertise. WYDE invests in all forms of participation claimed by youth: Political and partisan participation: working with young people and (young) women from political parties and parliaments so that they can play an ever-meaningful role. Citizen participation, often non-partisan: working with youth and women who have chosen to participate as citizens in grassroots organizations that engage in institutional oversight, anti-corruption, citizen election observation, democratic reform advocacy and civic education. Democracy activism: working with bloggers, influencers, researchers and grassroots movements that promote the universal values of human rights and democracy. The many beneficiaries of the program are encouraged to network within the Youth Democracy Cohort co-lead by EPD and the European Commission. The WYDE initiative is multilevel (global, regional, country and local scopes) andmultifaceted (involving Parliaments, political parties, academia (young African researchers), democracy support organisations, youth and youth-led organisations, and grass-roots CSOs).

The European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development (EIARD) is an informal European donor coordination platform on agri-food research and innovation (R&I) in low- and middle-income countries. The platform aims to foster exchanges to promote coherent European policies and investments at international, regional and sub‐regional levels in order to increase the impact of agri-food R&I systems, in particularly towards advancing on the SDGs.

AL-INVEST Verde is the European Union–funded programme that promotes sustainable growth and job creation in Latin America. Its objective is to support the transition towards a low-carbon, resource-efficient and more circular economy by facilitating the implementation of sustainable production models within the framework of the Global Gateway strategy. The programme has a total budget of EUR 40.1 million and a five-year implementation period starting in October 2021. Its structure is organised into three components, which respectively work with Latin American small businesses, public institutions in the region, and the management of intellectual property rights: Component 1 - Innovation and Green Transition for SMEs Component 2 - Technical Assistance to the Public Sector in the region to foster sustainable value chains in compliance with environmental and labour standards Component 3 - Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) for Sustainable Development

The Team Europe Democracy Initiative (TED) is a global thematic Team Europe Initiative (TEI) launched in December 2021 to promote democracy and human rights worldwide.

Sub-Saharan Africa presents significant investment opportunities across multiple sectors. However, matching these opportunities with the employment aspirations of a fast-growing youth population remains a challenge. Many young people struggle to find decent jobs, while investors face a shortage of relevant skills in the labour force. To help close this gap, the Team Europe Initiative on Opportunity-driven Skills and Vocational Education and Training in Africa (TEI OP-VET) was launched in April 2024 under the Global Gateway strategy. The initiative aims to strengthen vocational education and training systems in SSA by aligning them with concrete employment opportunities emerging from public and private investments, making skills development a core enabler of sustainable growth and job creation.