Africa

The Ad-Hoc Working Group on Africa is monitoring and providing input to the Peace and Security Partnership of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES). EPLO is the contact point of European civil society for the Peace and Security Partnership and has in this capacity participated in and contributed to all relevant civil society engagement provisions of the JAES, such as the EU Implementation Team, the Joint Expert Group and the Joint Africa EU Task Force.

For more information on the Ad-Hoc Working Group on Africa, please contact Josephine Liebl.

You can find the official website of the JAES here. For additional resources and news, pleases visit ECDPM's website on the JAES.

Activities and Resources:

• EPLO recommendations for Joint EU-AU Expert Group meeting on Peace and Security Partnership (October 2008)
• EPLO Policy Paper on the Joint Africa EU Strategy (October 2007)
• International Alert, Saferworld, & EPLO: Acting on Commitments: How EU strategies and programming can better prevent violent conflict (April 2007)