Since 1990, Commission funding for ACP countries has risen steadily each year in real terms – and now it is spending more than ever before on aid for trade. Since 2001, more than €850 million of Commission funds have been used to help ACP regions to boost trade and integrate into the world economy.
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Employment Intensive Programme in Support of Mogadishu
Promotion of community based employment projects is the only way to re-integrate crisis-affected groups and give them a sense of belonging. So far, 1 700 people (70% women) from the poorer sections of society have been recruited via the ILO programme
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Providing universal access to treatment
In Benin and Congo, the EU supports an integrated approach to HIV and Tuberculosis care. The National Health Care systems in the two countries have been reinforced through extensive capacity building measures to carry this holistic care of patients.
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WSS Pilot project in four needy areas of Douala, Cameroon
In Duala, Cameroon, a water sanitation project aims to change the reality of three million people, since only 25% of them have access to clean water while most of the inhabitants have often to drink water taken from polluted public wells.
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Support to Vulnerable Farming Households Affected by Increasing Food and Commodity Prices in Lesotho
In order to mitigate the impact of soaring food and agricultural input prices, the EU provided €4 million through FAO in Lesotho to support vulnerable, food insecure farming households. 36 300 households received quality agricultural supplies.
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Energy services centres for rural communities in Mozambique
In a context where electricity is a luxury from which only few can benefit, the project aims at improving access to electric services to heath centres and also to citizens for private use.
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What's On
The European Commission announces a new programme to strengthen institutions in charge of trans-boundary water management in Africa to mark World Water Day
The European Commission has announced €3 million to help strengthen regional cooperation at the political, economic and stakeholder level in the water management sector. The new programme will favour sustainable management of water resources which are shared by more than one country, by using African expertise, and therefore enhance peace and security as well as help alleviate poverty in the region.
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EU support to African veterinary services brings an end to Rinderpest, a devastating livestock disease
Almost 50 years of continued collaboration between the EU and the African Union Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR) to eradicate Rinderpest is about to achieve its ultimate goal, with the official declaration of global freedom from Rinderpest foreseen for 2011. Building on such successful work, the Commission granted today EUR 30 million to further strengthen African Veterinary Services.
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European Commission and civil society agree on priorities for the NGOs' role in Haiti's reconstruction
The European Commission organised a one-day conference for European and Haitian NGOs on the reconstruction of Haiti, on the 23 March in Brussels. The purpose of the meeting was to exchange views on the role that NGOs and civil society could play in addressing the priority reconstruction and development challenges currently facing Haiti. The outcomes of this event will be presented at the International Conference on the reconstruction of Haiti on 31 March 2010 in New York. Read the final report here.
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EU funds water and sanitation projects in ACP countries to support progress towards the MDGs
9th February 2010. The European Commission presented the the second ACP-EU Water Facility, replenished with € 200 million under the 10th European Development Fund for the period 2009-2013.
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