The Intra-ACP Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Programme, financed under the 11th European Development Fund (EDF), represents one of the European Union’s key cooperation instruments with the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) in strengthening risk management and resilience to disasters. With a budget of €100.5 million for the period 2022–2028, the Programme aims to reduce the impacts of disasters caused by natural hazards, extreme climate and weather events, and other exogenous risks, while strengthening the resilience of the most vulnerable populations. It is fully aligned with the priorities of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, regional and national agendas, and with broader international commitments to promote sustainable, inclusive and climate-resilient development. Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Disaster Impacts Across OACPS Regions Operating at an interregional scale across Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the Programme works through a network of 8 implementing partners, regional organisations and specialised technical institutions. This multi-partner approach supports complementary actions ranging from strengthening early warning systems and improving risk governance to integrating disaster risk reduction into national, sectoral policies and investment planning. With its three specific objectives, the Programme seeks to: > Strengthen disaster risk governance. This means better management of disaster risks, ensuring that the right policies and frameworks are in place to protect people, communities, ecosystems and their livelihoods. > Increase investment in disaster risk reduction. Investing in resilient infrastructure and sustainable practices, can help communities withstand and recover from disasters more effectively. > Enhance disaster preparedness to ensure effective response and recovery. This includes 'Build Back Better' during recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction, creating stronger and safer communities. To ensure coherence and effectiveness across its components, a dedicated Technical Assistance facility managed by DAI supports the coordination of the Programme implementation. This support includes monitoring and evaluation, analytical advice, peer learning and facilitation of knowledge exchange across ACP regions. It also plays a central role in advancing South–South cooperation, enabling countries to share innovations, tools and lessons learned in disaster risk management. Stronger disaster resilience starts with better knowledge. This approach positions knowledge creation and sharing at the core of technical assistance, while using communication as a catalyst for impact, coordination and recognition of results. The aim is to transform local and regional experiences into shared resources that benefit the wider DRR community and OACP countries.

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

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.

This is the second phase of The EU Infrastructure Support Mechanism to AUDA-NEPAD (African Union Development Agency - New Partnership for Africa’s Development). The Global objective is to promote sustainable, smart, resilient, and safe mobility to strengthen African land/road transport regulatory frameworks across the continent.

The Center for Evaluation and Development (C4ED) was commissioned by the European Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) to conduct the evaluation of selected EUTF supported projects in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The evaluation focused on activities under EUTF Strategic Objective (SO) 1 on improving the economic and employment opportunities in the Sahel and Lake Chad (SLC) and Horn of Africa (HoA) windows.

🌍 AU-EU Health Partnerships is a broad coalition working together to strengthen health systems, improve health security, and increase access to pharmaceuticals in Africa. The Team Europe Initiative focuses on 5 interconnected themes: 💊 Manufacturing and access to vaccines, medicines and health technologies 🩺 Sexual and reproductive health and rights 🛟 Sustainable health security using a "One Health" approach 🛜 Digital health 🥼 Public health institutes Encompassing dozens of projects and partners at the continental, regional, and country level, the initiative is making critical contributions to ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages (SDG 3).

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 subsequent inception phase resulted in an agreed logical framework that defines project activities in five specific work packages generating concrete outputs, outcomes, and impacts. These work packages are: 1. International Events 2. Specialised Working Groups 3. Training and Technical Assistance 4. Communication and dissemination 5. Project Management In the 7 reporting periods LNGnet organised 10 training courses with a total number of 491 participants, implemented 5 Specialised Working Groups with 47 renowned international experts involved across them, and managed 3 international events with 203 participants. In total, stakeholders from across 52 countries across 5 continents were involved in LNGnet.

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.