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The report highlights the extensive results of the cooperation between the United Nations and the European Commission in 105 countries worldwide in upholding international human rights, delivering humanitarian assistance and development, investing in livelihoods, education and peoples’ health, including maternal and reproductive health, and helping countries recover from conflict and preventing its recurrence. Moreover the UN and the European Commission jointly work to support the long-term economic and rural development of developing countries.   

This report is the second produced by the UN team in Brussels. It highlights key results that the United Nations and the European Commission, working together, were able to achieve in developing countries and countries in transition. Below are just a few of the many results mentioned in the report:

a)      33 million refugees and internally displaced people in 70 countries were provided with protection and assistance;

b)      43 million people affected by conflict or natural disasters received food, including 6 million people in Sudan;

c)      49 million square meters of land were cleared of mines;

d)      2,000 children used by armed forces in Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire were reintegrated into normal life, by providing them with education and health care;

e)      375 million children were immunized against polio;

f)       45 million citizens were able to vote in democratic elections supported in ten countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Indonesian province of Aceh, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

A leitmotif of the UN-European Commission cooperation is the effort to build the capacities of institutions and civil society in developing countries, thereby helping them meet of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. The MDGs, now at their mid-point, are the guiding framework for the cooperation between the European Commission and the UN in the field.

The UN adds value to the work of the European Commission, especially in sensitive areas of governance, where the UN’s global legitimacy and impartiality is especially important, and in crisis country situations where its consistent presence and broad mandate enables the UN, with the support of donors like the Commission, to support the transition from emergency relief work to recovery and development.

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