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The European Union launched three EU-supported investment programmes valued at €700+ million which will mobilise €6.3 billion in public and private investments, taking a big step towards closing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) investment gap.

Today, the European Commission has adopted a Communication on “building sustainable international partnerships as a Team Europe,” taking stock of the progress achieved in the field of International Partnerships.

Today, the European Commission is announcing a new funding pledge of €260 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, for the years 2026–2027. The funds will contribute to help protect 500 million children around the world, strengthen immunisation systems, and boost global health security.

What happens when seventeen health experts from across Africa join forces with European leaders in healthcare innovation? A study tour to boost Africa’s capacity for vaccine and medicine manufacturing!

The United Nations, European Commission, and World Bank Group will make gender equality and ending violence against women and girls a priority of their cooperation to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, announced a new funding package worth €146 million to strengthen basic services and livelihoods for Afghans, with a particular attention to women, children and vulnerable populations.

Today, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, the EU and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced they are developing new financing mechanisms to accelerate access to health products, including safe, effective and affordable contraceptive and maternal health medicines.

At the high-level roundtable meeting in New York on the margins of the UN Summit of the Future in New York today, new funding was signed, and it was agreed that the partners will sit down and start identifying needs and planning health care improvements in 15 countries.

Today at the launch event of the 2024 Aid Transparency Index (ATI) in Washington DC, it was announced that the Directorate General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) joined the league of most transparent donors and now ranks in the “top 10”.