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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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Water Footprint in Africa, considered as the sum of both the green and blue WF and defined as the ratio between evapotranspiration (in m3 per hectare) and crop yield (in ton per hectare). The values a...
Terrestrial Fibre Status is derived from the African Terrestrial Fibre, a map of African terrestrial fiber optic infrastructure initiatives supported by the Network Startup Resource Center. It is an ...
Electricity expenditure per day, in US$. Data are from ongoing JRC research. Higher levels of electricity expenditure may indicate that the country has a greater proportion of people with electricity ...
Estimated number of jobs created directly related to the deployment of PV mini-grids. The indicator was calculated using data on the total MWh of electricity output anticipated if the total number of ...
The International Wealth Index is an asset-based wealth index that runs from 0 (no assets) to 100 (all assets) and is comparable across place and time. The lower the level of the Index, the greater th...
Area equipped for irrigation with groundwater, expressed in m2 multiplied by GWh/m2. Lower values of the indicator indicated that electricity could improve the number of areas equipped for irrigation,...
Sustainable Development Goals
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