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A gateway to data and information on Africa's social, economic, territorial and environmental development, developed by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.

This platform features Joint Research Centre (JRC) data, tools, partnerships, and stories developed in-house or with African and international partners. It provides a single entry-point to the wealth of European Commission knowledge on Africa and aims to support the European Union (EU) objective of deepening the partnership with Africa.
Regional Centres of Excellence for the Green Transistion Program

This platform serves as the Knowledge and Information hub for the Regional Centers of Excellence program. It underpins its Transversal component helping foster knowledge exchange and strengthen the science-policy interface, covering the priority topics linked to the Green Transition:

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The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) officially launched its mandate as a Subregional Technical and Scientific Cooperation Support Centre.
RCMRD is releasing two complementary policy briefs which, taken together, set out a single strategic ambition: to build a transnational governance framework for ecosystems based on...
The Request for Expression of Interest focusses on African–European partnership for co-designing regional pilots that demonstrate impact-based forecasting (IbF) services and tools. These...
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The GHS Settlement Model layers (GHS-SMOD) GHS-SMOD_GLOBE_R2023A delineate and classify settlement typologies via a logic of cell clusters population size, population and built-up area densities as de...
Fire data from eStation generated using NASA FIRMS.
Multi year average precipitation data from eStation
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Leaf Array Index (LAI), and Fraction of Absorbed photosynthetic Radiation (FAPAR) timeseries information from eStation services.
Chlorophyll, Primary Production, and Sea Surface Temperature (SST) timeseries data from eStation.
"This map shows, for each grid cell, the Levelized Cost of Cold [c$/kWh] generated by the following systems: Cooling Absorption System; Refrigeration Absorption System; The maps refer t...
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