Local economic development in EU external actions refers to the European Union's efforts to support sustainable economic growth and job creation in partner countries and regions outside the EU. This approach focuses on empowering local communities, businesses, and institutions to drive their own economic development.
What would happen if everyone gave €1 a year for development cooperation? Citizens from Coulaines, a commune in France, are showing what’s possible: they have helped bring water to 15,000 people in their twin-town Kouré, some 5...
The overall goal of the initiative is to empower disabled women, widows, orphans and other vulnerable within the population in rural Senegal using sustainable means. Our vision is to empower these groups by improving their food and nutrition situation, access to education and medication on a long term and strengthening their position within the community.
YOU(th) CARE FOR CHANGE is a project focused on engaging and empowering the younger generations to promote global care, sustainability and gender equality. The project aims to strengthen active citizenship among young people through activities such as mapping youth associations, capacity building through coaching and peer-to-peer exchanges and participatory meetings to define local agendas.
The EU Mobile Labs Project has provided one of the first labs against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. A mobile unit was deployed to Guinea in March 2014, at the outbreak's onset. It has provided diagnosis for a large fraction of the samples collected - 3000 during the first 6 months, identifying over 1000 positive cases. Up to 70 samples per day have been processed, with diagnosis available within 4 hours. Two additional mobile labs have been deployed to Nigeria and Liberia.
The objective of the ACCEDES Project is to improve the access, promotion and enrolment of vulnerable groups in milieus with risk of social exclusion in Latin America. To attain this goal, three operating objectives are proposed
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Comunicación de las acciones desarrolladas en la Unión Europea en Perú