- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
Eritrea has been a significant source of asylum seekers, with individuals deciding to either remain in neighboring countries within the region or proceed on their journeys to Europe and other destinations.
In Eritrea, the primary aim of the EUTF was to create a favorable environment for enhancing economic opportunities for the youth. This involved promoting educational initiatives, fostering private entrepreneurship, providing support for vocational training, and facilitating apprenticeship programs.
Please note that all EUTF programs in Eritrea were terminated in 2021.
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National programmes
The programme aimed at improving transport connectivity for commercial trade along the arterial roads between Massawa and the Ethiopian border.
This project aimed to strengthen the economic governance capacity of the Government of the State of Eritrea (GSE). The objective was for Eritrea to have a sound, capable, and self-reliant National Statistics System (NSS) by the end of the program.
This action supported the continuation of WFP Global Passenger Air Service flights connecting Addis Ababa and Asmara allowing the international development and humanitarian actors to continue their operation in Eritrea.
Regional programmes
The overall objective is to improve migration management in the region, and in particular to curb the trafficking of human beings and the smuggling of migrants within and from the Horn of Africa.
The specific objectives will be to collate, synthesize and disseminate the outcomes of existing and new research and evidence related to instability, irregular migration and forced displacement in the Horn of Africa; to communicate the outcomes of existing and new research and evidence to, and share
The overall objective of the project is the following: to facilitate orderly, safe, regular and rights-based migration through the facilitation of dignified voluntary return and the implementation of development-focused and sustainable reintegration policies and processes.
Specific Objective 1: to establish and implement a Monitoring and Learning System which monitors and reports on the overall progress of the EUTF Horn of Africa window against EUTF strategic objectives, Horn of Africa policy priorities and EUTF principles of interventions.
The intervention logic of the project is that in the context of the Horn of Africa, the sharing of information on irregular migration and associated criminal networks amongst the countries of the Khartoum Process is a conditional requirement to address transnational crime.
The following three thematic objectives and one implementation effectiveness objective are identified to achieve the broader goal of peace and stability in the region:I.
The specific objective is to better equip relevant country agencies to disrupt the traffickers and smugglers of human beings operating in the Greater Horn of Africa through efficient use of financial investigations and anti-money laundering approaches, including on tracing and seizing assets and...
The second phase of the Better Migration Management programme aims to improve the management of safe, orderly and regular migration in the region and support national authorities in addressing the smuggling of migrants and the trafficking in human beings within and from the Horn of Africa.
The project's overall objective is to strengthen and implement the IGAD GCR process, thereby providing increased safety and well-being to displaced populations and host communities.
Cross-window programmes
The specific objective is to conduct, synthesize, disseminate and make use of new and existing research on the drivers and dynamics of the root causes of instability, insecurity, irregular migration and forced displacement in West and North Africa and migration routes, and the most successful policy...
The overall objective is to increase the efficiency of the Trust Fund, through gender-and-rights-responsive technical assistance for the identification, formulation, evaluation, monitoring of and communication on trust fund interventions, including audits, evaluations/communication actions for this...
The overall objective of the Action is to contribute to strengthen the governance of migration in the region and provide protection and sustainable solutions for migrants and refugees along the Central Mediterranean route.
The overall objective of the action is to promote sustainable development and ultimately contribute to poverty reduction by increasing the availability of trained and qualified high-level professional manpower in West Africa and the Horn of Africa.
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