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RSS![In Ethiopia, Best Interest Committee were set up to protect vulnerable children](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-07/202110_victims_family_united_giz_dennis_onen_11.jpg?itok=DxwibqY9)
Demeku was about to turn 14 when she was repatriated after being trafficked in Qwara Woreda, in the West Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region.
- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
- Ethiopia
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- GIZ
![Signing of the New Emergency Safety Net Project_July22](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-07/signature_ok.jpg?itok=86ft2wfI)
Brussels, Belgium – 21 July 2022: With rising international food prices caused by the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and a poor harvest, the Sudanese people are facing deepening food insecurity and humanitarian risks.
- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
- Sudan
- Thematic
- Strengthening resilience of communities
- Partner
- World Bank
![EUTF partner, Elman peace centre awarded by King Baudoin Foundation](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-07/ward.jpg?itok=jsI5RDvF)
On 16th June, the King Baudouin African Development Prize (KBF Africa Prize) 2020-2021 was awarded to the Elman Peace and Human Rights Centre, a Somali organisation dedicated to promoting peace, cultivating leadership and empowering the marginalized brackets of society to be decision-makers in the...
- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
- Somalia
- Thematic
- Improved governance and conflict prevention
![Potential victims of human trafficking are reaching distant areas by buses, lured by false job promises](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-07/202203_ken_transport_sector_nairobi_giz_light_in_captivity_1.jpg?itok=WE4dnXO4)
It was already late in the afternoon when Rashid (not his real name), a bus conductor, spotted a distressed-looking young girl standing alone at the bus station on Mombasa Island where all the buses plying the Lunga Lunga to Mombasa route terminate.
![Hamid Aboubaker Ali de la CNDH sensibilise les migrants sur leurs droits et sur l’existence des centres d’informations](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-06/2021_dji_fanta_heru_gizomar_saad_1.jpg?itok=JTulzTlB)
«De nombreux migrants transitent par la ville d’Obock, au nord de Djibouti, pour se rendre dans les pays du Golfe.
- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
- Djibouti
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- GIZ
![An average of 165,000 Ugandans are working in the Middle East ; Uganda has taken steps to improve their job and life security](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-06/202107_migrants_working_in_building_construction_giz_omar_saad.jpg?itok=IrPqEjNG)
A serious problem facing Uganda is the huge lack of jobs.
- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
- Uganda
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- GIZ
![I&P Video reportage E'sens](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-06/esens.jpg?itok=eixvrpDF)
Depuis 2019, l’Union européenne finance à travers le Fonds Fiduciaire d’Urgence (FFU) I&P Accélération au Sahel, une initiative du fonds d’investissement Investisseurs & Partenaires qui accompagne les petites entreprises dynamiques et à fort potentiel de croissance, mais jugées trop jeunes ou trop...
- Region and Country
- Benin
- Ghana
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Senegal
- Mali
- Mauritanie
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroun
- Niger
- Thematic
- Greater economic and employment opportunities
- Partner
- Investisseurs & Partenaires
![GrEEn: The story of Edmund Arthur and Premier Waste Services](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-05/screenshot_8.png?itok=pbdm_01N)
The Boosting Green Employment and Enterprise Opportunities in Ghana (GrEEn) project is a four-year joint action by the European Union, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Ghana, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF).
- Region and Country
- Ghana
- Thematic
- Greater economic and employment opportunities
- Partner
- United Nations Capital Development Fund
- SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, Ghana
![Croix Rouge-Journée mondiale de l'Afrique _BF](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-05/vie_meilleure_migrant_nigerian_mai_2022_002.jpg?itok=w2qGV7TN)
Que serait l’Afrique sans la richesse et la diversité des peuples qui l’habitent et se rencontrent en permanence parfois loin de leurs terres d’origines?Au Burkina Faso, riche de ses six frontières, cette réalité est particulièrement vraie; Maliens, Nigériens, Nigérians, Camerounais, Ivoiriens...
- Region and Country
- Guinée
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Senegal
- The Gambia
- Mali
- Burkina Faso
- Niger
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- Save the Children
- RED CROSS SPAIN
- Caritas Switzerland
![Veronica Mwangi (right), Deputy Director of KNCHR, and her staff are lobbying for reforms to protect migrant rights in Kenya](https://trust-fund-for-africa.europa.eu/sites/default/files/styles/oe_theme_ratio_3_2_medium/public/2022-05/20220324_ken_knchr_1_giz_light_in_captivity.jpg?itok=1mLAAW_v)
Alone in a foreign country, migrants face myriad challenges such as the lack of family support, language barriers and missing access to information and services.
- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
- Kenya
- Thematic
- Improved migration management
- Partner
- GIZ