Digital for Development (D4D) for Digital Economy and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa

Transformational potential:

Support the digital transformation in Africa by fostering multi-stakeholder dialogue, joint partnerships, and investments in the digital domain.

The Team Europe Proposal:

1. Strengthen EU coordination on D4D (D4D Hub Africa Branch):

• Exchange information on projects (D4D Hub label);
• Identify TEIs with a thematic and/or geographic scope;
• Supporting the EU-AU dialogue on digital, joint engagement;
• Localize the global D4D Hub strategy;
• Promote dialogue with EU and African private sector actors, academia and think tanks;
• Thematic working groups.

2. Engage in Africa-Europe strategic dialogue:

• Annual multi-stakeholder forum.

3. Support the digital transformation in Africa under the Team Europe umbrella:

• Jointly defined priority areas;
• Thematic working groups - Project identification/ formulation by each development partner;
• Co-financing and/or joint implementation of actions;
• Joint investments.

4. D4D Hub Labelled Support (coherent framework of actions) to:

• Monitoring, clear and agreed benchmarks;
• Assure complementarity, coherence, and coordination at EU level;
• Assess additionally and accurate accounting;
• Mapping of relevant interventions.