European Court of Auditors. Special report 17/2024: The EU trust fund for Africa. Despite new approaches, support remained unfocused

Established in 2015, the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) is an EU response to address the root causes of migration, instability and internal displacements in Africa. We followed up our 2018 recommendations and assessed whether the EUTF has improved the focus of its support, while showing due concern for human rights. We found that supported projects have reported the delivery of many results. However, the EUTF support remains insufficiently focused on the agreed priorities. Furthermore, there are weaknesses in the accuracy and sustainability of reported results and a lack of procedures and follow-up on allegations of human rights violations. With a view to the ending of the EUTF and/or future development action, we make four recommendations.