The specific objective was to support NEAR A2 in fulfilling its mandate of generating renewed capacity of Commission services to engage with each other and external partners, to develop trust and to rapidly put these new skills to use.
This was made possible through the yearly thematic networks/trainings meetings that were great opportunities for capacity building of EU staff at HQ and Delegations and were further registered in EU Learn.
The regular thematic networks trainings indeed gathered colleagues from headquarters and delegations, in order to present policy updates, share cooperation methodologies, programmes and best practices, discuss and address issues of common interest and thus enable Commission services to learn new tools for achieving effective results.
These trainings addressed policy-related analysis (e.g. gender analysis, do-no-harm and conflict-sensitivity analysis, but not exclusively) and design of assistance. This also included mainstreaming of crosscutting issues such as resilience, digitalization, gender, disabilities, civil society, and more broadly the human rights-based approach, as well as analysis of legislation, regulations and law enforcement, legislative gap analysis, etc.