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International Partnerships

Programmes

Climate, environment and energy

Animals and a big tree in the Serengeti national park

BIOPAMA: Managing biodiversity and protected areas

The Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management (BIOPAMA) Programme assists the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries to address their priorities for better managing and governing biodiversity and natural resources. It provides a variety of tools, services and funding.

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NaturAfrica

The project supports biodiversity conservation in six priority regions: Congo Basin forest ecosystems, Transhumance landscapes in Central Africa, West Africa Forests, Sudano-sahelian savannahs of West Africa, Eastern Rift savannahs and watersheds, Transfrontier conservation areas of Southern Africa.

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SWITCH Africa Green

The SWITCH Africa Green programme aims to assist African countries with sustainable development, by encouraging a shift towards an inclusive green economy. 

SWITCH Asia programme

SWITCH Asia

SWITCH Asia promotes sustainable consumption and production.

Intra-ACP Climate Services Programme

The programme's objectives are to provide members and regions of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) innovative and collaborative solutions to manage climate-related risk considerations in their sustainable development policy, planning and practice decisions.

Euroclima

The programme's objective is to reduce the impact of climate change and its effects in Latin America and the Caribbean by fostering climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and investment.

AgriFI

AgriFI is a €120m impact investment facility funded by the European Union. It is designed to provide financing to businesses active in the agri-food value chain, with a focus on smallholder farmers.

Food Fortification Advisory Services (2FAS)

2FAS aims to support countries with their food fortification programmes, share knowledge on reducing micronutrient deficiencies and increase political commitment to food fortification at global and national levels.

Nutrition Research Facility

The facility aims to provide improved knowledge and evidence for policy and programme design, management, and monitoring and evaluation in order to reach better nutrition outcomes.

FISH4ACP

This programme aims to tackle some of the underlying challenges in building sustainable fisheries and aquaculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Digital, research and innovation

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ACP-EU Research and Innovation Programme

The ACP-EU Programme to Strengthen Research and Innovation capacity in ACP countries targets public and private stakeholders with a comprehensive package of opportunities.

Genevieve, a peer educator - joined Yoma's 'Digital Livelihoods Challenge' in Burundi.

Smart Development Fund

The aim of the Smart Development Fund is to refine digital solutions to counter COVID-19 challenges in, and with, EU partner countries.

Sustainable growth and jobs

Selling cocoa at Soubré market, Côte d'Ivoire

The Sustainable Cocoa Initiative

The EU initiated a dialogue in support of the sustainable cocoa sector. The objective of the Initiative is to support the elimination of child labour and child trafficking, the protection and restoration of forests, and to ensure a living income for cocoa farmers.

Human development

ACP-EU culture

The programme's objective isto boost the competitiveness of cultural and creative industries in he African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.

Migration

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Lives in Dignity Grant Facility

The Lives in Dignity Grant Facility was founded to channel funding to promote development-oriented approaches to displacement crises.

Peace and governance

Inter Pares strengthens the capacity of parliaments

Inter Pares

This programme aims to strengthen the capacity of parliaments in partner countries by enhancing their legislative, oversight, representative, budgetary and administrative functions.
EU-LAC partnership on justice and security

EL PAcCTO 2.0

EL PAcCTO 2.0 aims to fight organised transnational crime using an integrated approach to reinforce the rule of law, citizen security and stability, both in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and Europe.

Gender equality

Mae Sot, Thailand

Spotlight Initiative

The EU-UN Spotlight Initiative is a strategic partnership to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls across the world.
EU and UN Women to boost women’s rights coalitions on ending violence against women

ACT to End Violence Against Women

ACT to End Violence against Women (Advocacy, Coalition Building and Transformative Feminist Action to End Violence Against Women) is a programme to accelerate efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women.

Regional programmes

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Bêkou Trust Fund

The Bêkou Trust Fund was set up as a rapid, flexible tool in 2014 to respond to the consequences of the crisis in the Central African Republic the previous year. It positions itself in the humanitarian-development-peace nexus. 

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EU–LAC Regional Facility for Development in Transition

This programme seeks to create open dialogue between Europe and LAC countries on the impact that transitioning to a higher level of income has on the capacity of partner countries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Latin American Investment Facility

The facility's purpose is to help Latin American countries finance projects in key sectors that are essential for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, such as energy, environment, water, transport, social services, and support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Caribbean Investment Facility

The facility aims at contributing to economic development and growth, regional integration, poverty reduction and environmental protection through the mobilization of resources for strategic economic infrastructure projects and for support to the private sector.

Projects from EU-funded programmes

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Eat4Change - Mobilising youth for sustainable diets

“Eat4Change” is project calling for a shift toward more sustainable diets and food production practices. The project engages European citizens, especially 15 to 35 year olds, to embrace more sustainable diets, influence peers and support engagement with corporates and policy makers.