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Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, the EU, EU Member States and European financial institutions, as Team Europe, have disbursed €34 billion in support to partner countries in addressing the pandemic and its consequences.

Join LIVE our #KAPTalks with Kristalina Georgieva, head of IMF who will discuss with Jeffrey Sachs interconnected challenges of recovery, climate change and inequality. The event will be hybrid, physical and online. Join us on 21st September at 14:30

Join live our #KAPTalks with Anthony Bebbington of the Ford Foundation who will discuss the extraction of natural resources as a social justice question, particularly in light of COVID-19 pandemic. Join us on 10th September at 14:00 CET / 12:00 GMT.

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The Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) approved in July eight financial top-ups to ongoing programmes which the Fund finances in the Horn of Africa.

At today's Global Education Summit, the EU and its Member States, as Team Europe, pledged €1.7 billion to the Global Partnership for Education to help transform education systems for more than one billion girls and boys in up to 90 countries.

The Commission welcomes the adoption of the negotiation directives by the Council to negotiate changes to, and support the modernisation of, the 2007 International Coffee Agreement.

At the Global Health Summit in Rome, on 21 May 2021, President von der Leyen announced that ‘Team Europe' would share with low and middle-income countries at least 100 million doses by the end of 2021, mainly via COVAX.

Small businesses will be key drivers in the recovery of global trade after COVID-19. To support growth, the European Union has endorsed free access to the International Trade Centre’s Market Analysis Tools for all EU users until 31 December 2022.

The Youth Sounding Board for International Partnerships has started its work, with the members meeting each other and the Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen for the first time.

Joint Press Release - Producing COVID-19 vaccines in Africa came one step closer today after Team Europe formally agreed to support large-scale investment in vaccine production by the Institut Pasteur in Dakar, alongside other support measures.

The EU has updated its 2014 Toolbox on the rights based approach (RBA) in line with its commitments to the Sustainable Development Goals and to reducing all forms of inequalities, including gender inequality.