EPLO's Ad-hoc Group on EU-Africa Relations monitors and provides input to the Peace and Security Partnership of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES). EPLO is the European civil society contact point for the Peace and Security Partnership and in this capacity it has participated in and contributed to all relevant civil society engagement provisions of the JAES, including the EU Implementation Team, the Joint Expert Group and the Joint Africa EU Task Force.

For more information on the Ad-hoc Group on EU-Africa Relations, please contact Josephine Liebl.

Click here to visit the official website of the JAES and click here for additional resources and news from the European Centre for Development Policy Management's website on the JAES.

Recent Publications

• Recommendations for the Second Action Plan for the Peace and Security Partnership of the Joint Africa - EU Strategy (September 2010)

• The European Union and Somalia (March 2010)

Other Documents

• Recommendations for the implementation of the Peace and Security Partnership of the Joint Africa - EU Strategy (October 2008)

• The Joint Africa  - EU Strategy (October 2007)

• Acting on Commitments: How EU strategies and programming can better prevent violent conflict (April 2007)

• Towards a Coherent EU Conflict Prevention Policy in Africa: Challenges for the Belgian Presidency (EPLO-Heinrich Böll Foundation - September 2001)