Brussels, 20/08/2014 (Agence Europe) - At the beginning of August, the European Commission launched the first phase of the “pan-African programme”, which will promote Africa's integration process at a continental level.
The programme, which the European institution believes will open up new prospects for cooperation between the EU and Africa, will fund activities in a range of areas: mobility, climate change, trade, etc.
For the period 2014-2017 an envelope of €415 million has been allocated. The projects co-funded under this first phase will cover the following fields: sustainable agriculture, the environment, higher education, governance, infrastructure, migration, information technology, research and innovation.
Over the period 2014-2020, the programme will have a budget of €845 million.
“The major innovation of this programme is that it allows the EU to link up the cooperation it has with Northern Africa, South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. It will also help us to achieve better policy coherence for development by building synergies between development cooperation and other EU policies”, said Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs.
For more information, see: http://www.africa-eu-partnership.org/ (MB)