Development Co-operation Instrument (DCI)

DCI [369 KB] covers three main components. The first is to provide assistance to South Africa and 47 developing countries in Latin America, Asia and Central Asia, and the Middle East (only those countries not covered by the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument or the European Development Fund) Secondly, it supports the restructuring of sugar production in 18 ACP countries.

Thirdly, it runs five thematic programmes: investing in people; environment and sustainable management of natural resources including energy; non-state actors and local authorities in development; food security; as well as migration and asylum.

The five DCI thematic programmes support actions in all developing countries (including those covered by ENPI and the EDF), global actions and external projections of as well as global actions and the fleshing out of Commission internal policies.