On 6 July 2026, EPLO organised an online Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN) Geographic Meeting on ‘Climate, Peace and Security: Entry points for EU engagement Perspectives on the Great Lakes region’.
The overall objective was to unlock concrete recommendations that would lead the EU to more effectively use climate, peace, and security programming as a platform for engagement in the Great Lakes Region, as well as to inform the implementation of the Joint Communication on the Climate-Security Nexus.
The discussion drew on lessons learned from the Great Lakes region, with a focus on focus on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda to examine what has worked at the programming level, where gaps remain, and what the EU’s political and institutional added value can be in supporting these approaches. The meeting report gathers key observations and recommendations from the discussions.
