17/03/2017
On the occasion of an official visit to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development Neven Mimica, announced a support package of €165 million to address the multiple crises in the Horn of Africa...
16/03/2017
The European Commission has today launched its largest ever humanitarian programme for education in emergencies to encourage some 230 000 refugee children to attend school in Turkey.The €34 million 'Conditional Cash Transfer for Education' (CCTE)...
16/03/2017
This week marks the completion of the first twelve months since the EU emergency support regulation was adopted by the Council. To date, €192 million have been contracted to the Commission's humanitarian aid partners to help the Greek government in...
15/03/2017
The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the European Commission adopted a Joint Communication proposing a forward- looking EU strategy for Syria on 14 March 2017. As called for by President Juncker in his...
09/03/2017
On 9 March 2017, senior officials from the European Union and the International Organization for Migration (IOM - the United Nations Migration Agency) met in Brussels to further strengthen their joint cooperation on addressing the challenges and...
08/03/2017
The EU is at the forefront of mainstreaming gender policies in humanitarian aid allocation and programming. On March 7th, Monique Pariat, the Director General of the European Commission's European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations,...
07/03/2017
The European Commission is scaling up its response to the humanitarian crisis in Iraq with a new aid package in 2017 worth €42.5 million. The funding was announced today by the Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos...
03/03/2017
The EU is backing a special education programme that has helped 2500 refugee and migrant children get back to school in Greece. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) provides transportation and the bus escorts who accompany migrant and...
24/02/2017
The European Commission has announced additional assistance for the Lake Chad region in 2017 as humanitarian needs grow.The European Commission has already allocated €55 million of humanitarian support to populations in the Lake Chad region in...
21/02/2017
Today the European Commission announced an emergency aid package worth €82 million as famine is declared in South Sudan for the first time since the country gained independence in 2011.One hundred thousand people are facing starvation in parts of...
