Strengthening the Legislative in Africa through an Institutional Partnership with AWEPA

AWEPA works in cooperation with African Parliaments to strengthen parliamentary democracy in Africa, to keep Africa high on the political agenda in Europe and to facilitate African-European Parliamentary dialogue. AWEPA's overall objective is to support the realisation of human rights and development in Africa via strengthening democratic institutions. With the help of parliamentarians and elected officials worldwide, AWEPA actively supports human resource development and institutional capacity building within parliaments made up of decentralised authorities.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner International or foreign NGO Private sector Other international or foreign NGO North Swiss Private Sector
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    2’300’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    2’110’504
Project phases	Phase 2 15.04.2016 - 15.04.2020   (Completed) Phase 1 15.04.2012 - 30.04.2016   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY COMMUNICATIONS
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Legal and judicial development Decentralisation and support to subnational government (incl. accountability) Human rights Information and communication technology (ICT)
  Cross-cutting topics	Human rights The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes. The project supports partner organisation improvements as a priority The project also supports partner organisation improvements
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Core contribution Mandate without fiduciary fund Project and programme contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F08067