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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.
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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 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...
A new StoryMap by the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), presents the purpose, progress, and impact of the ArcX initiative as it works to strengthen...
Hot off the Press! It took a while, but the Atlas of African Protected Areas is now available for on-line consultation on the Africa Knowledge Platform. A massive effort by the...
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This dataset provides the hydrological boundaries for major river basins and sub-basins across the African continent. Developed by the FAO Land and Water Division under the AQUASTAT program, the data ...
Many African countries, especially in the Sub-Saharan region highly depend on hydropower which is one of the energy sources that are most affected by droughts. At the same time hydropower has a huge i...
Higher energy demands in Africa has led to a wide expansion of the number of hydropower sites, mainly between the 1960s and 1980s. The construction of dams causes impoundments of rivers and reservoirs...
This layer represents the predicted likelihood that a given settlement is electrified, with values ranging from 0 (no electricity) to 1 (fully electrified). The data are derived from the High Resoluti...
A new StoryMap by the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), presents the purpose, progress, and impact of the ArcX initiative as it works to strengthen...
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