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Senior officials from the European Union (EU) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) met virtually today to advance their strategic partnership.

DEVCO is glad to announce the launch of a €30.5 million call for proposals to improve the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of adolescent girls and other vulnerable adolescents in Africa in the framework of the intra-ACP Programme.

Watch the next Kapuscinski Development Lecture on 6 October at 16:00 CET. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz will speak on restructuring globalisation for the global public good.

Today, the UN Summit on Biodiversity is taking place under the theme 'Urgent Action on Biodiversity for Sustainable Development.' Many Heads of state and government are attending. President Ursula von der Leyen will make her statement at 5pm (CET).

Today, the European Commission has announced a new €22 million programme “Health Support in response to COVID-19 in the Pacific”.

Following the first four discussions in the series, the fifth ‘In Conversation With’ takes place on the 1st of October 2020. The strategic focus of the discussion will be on “Migration, Mobility and Good Governance in the Africa-EU partnership”.

On Sunday, the European Union and the World Bank signed an agreement worth €92.2 million for the Sudan Family Support Programme. France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden also announced their support, adding another €67 million.

Digital transformation can help Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region recover more quickly from the COVID‑19 crisis, according to the Latin American Economic Outlook (LEO) 2020: Digital Transformation for Building Back Better.

Africa and Europe have a shared interest and much to gain from one another in accelerating the progress of the global agenda for sustainable development and working together to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.