Employment and decent work are at the core of sustainable growth. Investing in people goes hand in hand with economic growth and investment.
Investment allows a country’s private sector to boost its development and competitiveness, which in turn creates jobs and deepens trade integration.
At the same time, the economy needs to take into account the green transition and the efforts to be made for countering climate change. It needs to foster responsible consumption and production and promote sustainable lifestyles.
Programmes
We implement programmes around the world wherever assistance is needed. We tailor our support to fit the region or country being helped. Programmes with a global reach allow the EU to provide similar support to countries facing similar problems.
DeSIRA: Development Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture
The DeSIRA initiative aims to contribute to climate-relevant, productive and sustainable transformation of agriculture and food systems in low and middle-income countries.
The Sustainable Cocoa Initiative
Latest news
Eleventh Africa Fiscal Forum - Joint Statement by the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and the European Commissioner for International Partnerships
Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Ms. Jutta Urpilainen, European Commissioner for International Partnerships, today issued the following statement on the occasion of the Eleventh African Fiscal Forum ‘Building a Resilient Africa’.
EU extends partnership with the EITI to strengthen natural resource governance and sustainable supply chains
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) International Secretariat has entered into a new five-year partnership agreement with the European Union that secures vital funding to improve extractives transparency and build more sustainable raw material supply chains.
Commissioner Urpilainen to reaffirm EU support to the Least Developed Countries at the 5th UN Conference
Today, 7 March, Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, is in Doha, Qatar, to participate in the 5th UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC5), which will focus on the implementation of the Doha Programme of Action for the least Developed Countries 2022 – 2031, endorse