- Region and Country
- Horn of Africa
An outbreak of violence in South Sudan in July 2016 re-inflamed conflict throughout the country, aggravating a dire humanitarian situation, and provoking a massive displacement of people. We aim to strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable people in South Sudan affected by conflict, many of whom also find themselves suffering the effects of climate change, the combination of which has resulted in an alarming food security crisis. In particular, we are finding ways to improve the livelihoods of pastoralists, women and young people, and helping them to increase their food security and improve their access to education and health services.
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National programmes
Support to stabilisation through improved resource, economic and financial management in South Sudan
The Specific Objectives are: 1) to strengthen local institutions in the areas of public financial and human resources management, 2) to foster a culture of accountability by lower levels of government (states and counties) and 3) to support the implementation of specific measures on economic and...
Health Pooled Fund 2 - South Sudan
The Specific Objectives are: 1) to increase access to quality health services in particular by children, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups; 2) to strengthen health system institutional functioning including governance, effectiveness, efficiency and equity and 3) to increase ownership...
IMPACT South Sudan
The Specific Objectives are: (1) increase teachers' attendance, and (2) the establishment of a teacher human resource information system.
Education in Emergency Programme in Four Former States in South Sudan
(1) Improve access to quality learning opportunities for 75,000 children (6-18 year olds) in safe and protective environments in the four states;(2) Improve the nutrition status of primary learners in the four targeted areas with daily school meals throughout the academic year.
Technical Cooperation Facility for South Sudan
The overall objective of the programme is to contribute to an efficient and effective use of the development funds the EU implements in South Sudan, focusing also on the transition and/or complementarity between the humanitarian response and the medium-long term development response.
South Sudan Rural Development: Strengthening Smallholders' Resilience - SORUDEV SSR
The specific objectives of the programme are to improve food security of rural smallholders in Greater Bahr el Ghazal and to empower them to cope with environmental volatility and insecurity.
Building Sustainable Peace and Reconciliation in South Sudan
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to building sustainable peace and reconciliation in South Sudan.
Support to health services in South Sudan (Health Pooled Fund 3 and COVID-19 response)
The overall objective of this action is to contribute to improved health and well-being of the population of South Sudan.
OutReach – Support to education of children and young people in South Sudan, in particular in hard to reach areas
The overall objective is to contribute to improving equal access for girls and boys to quality primary and secondary education in safe learning environments in South Sudan.
South Sudan Women Empowerment
This project aims to complement the efforts of the EU and its Member States present in South Sudan to implement the Gender Action Plan II (2016-2020).
South Sudan Rural Development: feeder roads to strengthen the livelihoods and resilience of rural communities
The overall objective of the action is to contribute to improved stabilisation and livelihood resilience of rural vulnerable communities in Greater Bahr El Ghazal and Greater Upper Nile Regions (South Sudan).
Job Creation and Trade Development for South Sudan
The overall objective of this action is to improve the livelihoods of the targeted populations (with a special focus on youth and women) through jobs creation, better employment opportunities and income.
Regional programmes
Strengthening the ability of IGAD to promote resilience in the Horn of Africa
The specific objectives of the project are: (I) to strengthen IGAD’s capacity for coordinating and facilitating the implementation of IDDRSI to build resilience, as a means of addressing the root causes of vulnerability, forced displacement and irregular migration; and (II) to promote reform in IGAD
Better Migration Management Programme
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.
Research and Evidence Facility
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
Towards Free Movement and Transhumance in the IGAD region
The specific objectives of the project are:(I) to support the process of adoption, ratification and domestication of the IGAD Protocols on Free Movement of Persons and on Transhumance by IGAD Member States upon their adoption by IGAD Council of Ministers, along with complementary measures to...
Facility on Sustainable and Dignified Return and Reintegration in support of the Khartoum Process
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.
Monitoring and Learning System for the EUTF Horn of Africa
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.
Regional Operational Centre in support of the Khartoum Process and AU-Horn of Africa Initiative (ROCK)
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.
Strengthening the Livelihoods Resilience of Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Communities in South Sudan’s cross-border areas with Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
The specific objective is to enhance the food security, income and resilience of pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, and particularly in selected cross-border areas of South Sudan.
IGAD Promoting Peace and Stability in the Horn of Africa Region (IPPSHAR)
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.
Disrupting criminal trafficking and smuggling networks through increased anti-money laundering and financial investigation capacity in the Greater Horn of Africa
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...
Better Migration Management Programme Phase II
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.
Delivering durable solutions to forced displacement in the IGAD region through the implementation of the global compact on refugees (GCR)
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
Research and Evidence Facility for the Sahel and Lake Chad Region and the North of Africa
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...
Technical Cooperation Facility
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...
Protection and sustainable solutions for migrants and refugees along the Central Mediterranean route
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.
Erasmus+ in West Africa and the Horn of Africa
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.
News & Stories
Arzouma’s successful return story
Arzouma returned from Algeria four years ago.
EU-IOM Joint Initiative marks five years of supporting migrants and their communities across Africa
15 December 2021— Daouda is one of the 166 Nigerien migrants who returned from Tripoli to Niamey on a charter flight organised by the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in February 2020.
Habi’s return and reintegration story
Habi thought that she could easily earn money working as a maid in Libya and come back to Nigeria to take care of her children with some savings.
EUTF Success stories: Faustina
Faustina decided to leave Ghana for Libya to look for greener pastures.
Playground – Empowering young people in Ghana to build their dreams
On 2 July 2021, in Jamestown, Accra, the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Delegation of the European Union to Ghana, theSports for Education and Economic Development (SEED) Projectand DUNK Grassroots, together with some 200 youth, inaugurated...
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Zouberou a 34 ans et il est parti du Cameroun en 2014 en laissant sa femme et ses deux filles en quête d’une vie meilleure.
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Feeder roads provide more than just economic development for rural communities in South Sudan
A EUR 16 million programme, financed through the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, will enable the construction of 60-70 Km of all-weather feeder roads and the completion of the 160 m long bridge in rural areas of South Sudan, providing new economic opportunities for its population.
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EUTF steps up support to health systems of partner countries in the Horn of Africa for COVID-19 preparedness
In view of the current pandemic, the Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) in the Horn of Africa reacted quickly to approve a total of EUR 15 million to support COVID-19 preparedness in Sudan and South Sudan.