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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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This new report provides a spatially-explicit characterisation of the ecological value of 45 Key Landscapes for Conservation and Development (KLCDs) across Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
Two positions have been opened at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) under the Africa Regional Centres of Excellence (ArcX) Programme funded through the...
The call for tenders to provide the technical support for the development and deployment of Ocean forecasting and support the Regional Centres of Excellence is out: Development and...
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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Increasing water scarcity and water quality issues are serious constraints, especially for Northern Africa. A comprehensive assessment of spatial and temporal precipitation frequency is the initial st...
This dataset comprises a collection of shapefiles detailing the geographical locations and attributes of various wells across Africa, with a strong focus on geothermal exploration and assessment. Toge...
This dataset provides the global geographic distribution of key livestock species—cattle, sheep, and goats—for the year 2010, sourced from the Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW 3) database. Expresse...
This dataset provides projections of global rainfall erosivity changes, a critical metric representing the erosive force of rainfall that drives worldwide soil and nutrient loss. These maps serve as e...
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This dataset compiles global and regional models of the Mohorovičić discontinuity (Moho) depth from 2019 to 2022, providing key insights into crustal thickness and lithospheric boundaries. All layer v...
This dataset compiles geophysical models detailing the thickness of the Earth's outer layers, ranging from surface sedimentary basins down to the base of the lithosphere. The collection serves a dual ...
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