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This publication is the fourth edition in Eurostat’s series of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) monitoring reports, which provide a quantitative assessment of European Union (EU) progress towards reaching the SDGs. The 2020 edition is based on a set of around 100 indicators that have been selected taking into account their policy relevance from an EU […]

This report presents the EU’s spending on international development, humanitarian aid, foreign policy and enlargement in 2018, and shows how, as the world’s largest trading bloc and aid and assistance donor, the EU improved millions of lives in more than 120 countries. The EU invested EUR 74.4 billion in official development assistance in 2018, with

The Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development of the European Commission, together with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) as well as European tech companies, international development agencies and civil society launch a global hackathon (#smartdevelopmenthack) in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. In response to the effects of the corona

Within the European Commission, the Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) is in charge of development policy in a wider framework of international cooperation, adapting to the evolving needs of partner countries. DG DEVCO plays a leading role in implementing the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in EU international cooperation

EU budget support is a means of delivering effective aid and durable results in support of EU partners’ reform efforts and the sustainable development goals. It involves (i) dialogue with a partner country to agree on the reforms or development results which budget support can contribute to; (ii) an assessment of progress achieved; (iii) financial

The European Union is committed to implementing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This review takes stock of the status of reporting on the achievement of the SDGs and sustainability at EU level as well as reporting by individual EU institutions and agencies. With Directive 2014/95, the EU

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is the EU’s centre of fundamental rights expertise. It is one of the EU’s decentralised agencies and helps to ensure that the fundamental rights of people living in the EU are protected. Fundamental rights set out minimum standards to ensure that a person is treated with dignity.

This Report is a snapshot of the European Union’s (EU) contribution to aid and development effectiveness and its monitoring thereof. It examines the performance of the EU and its Member States against the results of the 2019 Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) monitoring Report. Almost 1,800 projects in over 70 partner countries were

This publication is the third in the series of annual monitoring exercises launched by Eurostat in 2017. It presents a statistical overview of the most recent trends of the EU SDG indicators over a five-year period (‘short term’). It shows EU progress towards the SDGs for the individual indicators and also presents the average progress

The External Investment Plan (EIP) consists of three pillars: (a) the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD), (b) the Technical Assistance that supports the preparation of proposed sustainable investment programmes (PIPs) and (c) the improvement of the investment and business climate in partner countries. It provides for grants and guarantees worth €4.54 billion (2017-2020), expecting