Discussions
Project closure: what has the EU support to ERERA achieved?
A few numbers and figures about the EU Technical Assistance Support to ERERA, a project launched in April 2018 and closed in January 2023. What has the project achieved?
Regreening Africa: Prioritising gender inclusion and agency in land restoration
The EU has scaled up its contribution to reach Sustainable Development Goal 5 in all internal and external policy areas. Gender equality and empowering women and girls are among the top priorities of DG INTPA. This is also...
Team Europe: Joint Programming in Mali 2020-2024
Eleven Member States (DE, BE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, LUX, NL, SE, CZ) and like-minded partners Switzerland and Norway have signed the European Joint Programming document for 2020-2024 for Mali. Led by the EU Delegation, Member States...
New SPaN podcast: Social protection in Mali // Sigrid Kühlke (ECHO)
In this interview, we talk to Sigrid Kühlke of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), in Nairobi, Kenya. In our conversation, we discussed the social...
Clear Cotton project seeks halt to child labour in West Africa and Pakistan
A workshop held on Universal Children’s Day marked the launch of the Clear Cotton project . The project aims to help eliminate child labour and forced labour in the cotton, textile and garment value chains and will focus on three...
Agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa
New paper in the SWAC/OECD West African Papers series: The food economy is the biggest employer in West Africa accounting for 66% of total employment. While the majority of food economy jobs are in agriculture, off-farm employment...
LATEST NEWS: PRAEJEM project (Save the Children) Supporting Migrant Children and Young workers: Learning kits to promote literacy and livelihood .
Regional Project to Support Migrant Children and Young Workers (PRAEJEM): Learning kits to promote literacy and livelihood. Save the Children puts 1,319 young people into craft apprenticeship. Save the Children and its partners...
Moyens de subsistance des enfants et jeunes travailleurs migrants :
Apprendre un métier pour des lendemains meilleurs Ils sont encore nombreux les jeunes qui croient qu’aller en migration est gage d’une meilleure condition de vie. Cependant, certains réalisent que le travail migrant n’est pas...
De la rue à la formation professionnelle : Comment je suis passée d’enfant travailleur migrant à activiste pour la protection de l’enfant
Aide-ménagère, ramasseuse d’ordures, porteuse de bagages dans les marchés ou encore lavandière, à tout juste 10 ans, Nawa en avait déjà vu de toutes les couleurs comme enfant travailleur migrant. Cependant, le courage et le désir...
How to adapt to climate change in the Mali Inner Niger Delta
Wetlands International is working to alleviate the climate change impacts on communities in the Inner Niger Delta region of Mali. In the context of our Partner for Resilience programme, we created two market gardens and one well...