North Africa

Document status: current. Last source check: 4 Nov 2026, 09:59 UTC. Extracts below retain the donor’s source wording.

Countries and scope

Algeria · Tunisia · Morocco · Egypt · Libya

• The North Africa HIP covers Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morroco and Tunisia 2 Technical annex and thematic policies annex AMOUNT: EUR EUR 22 631 505 The present Humanitarian Implementation Plan (HIP) was prepared on the basis of financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2026/01000 (Worldwide Decision) and the related General Orientations for Operational Priorities on Humanitarian Aid (GOOPHA)

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• Allocation round 1 Egypt

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• Allocation round 1 Libya (refugees)

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Funding priorities

• The 2026 HIP for North Africa will address as priority the direst humanitarian needs in the context of the Sahrawi refugee crisis in Algeria and those of the refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt.

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• In line with the needs identified above, DG ECHO will prioritise funding for the following sectors and activities:

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• Food Assistance & Nutrition: timely access to sufficient quantity and quality is crucial for the most vulnerable food insecure households. The shift from blanket assistance (general food distribution) to a targeted approach based on vulnerability criteria, and more cost-effective

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• modalities like cash or vouchers should be further expended. The result of the 2024 and 2025 food security/nutritional surveys should be the basis for a more strategic response and to tackle the roots causes of poor nutritional status of refugees.

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• Special focus should be on children under five and pregnant and breast-feeding women. with nutrition-sensitive food distributions, management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) and the promotion of appropriate maternal, infant and young child feeding (MIYCF) practices.

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• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: DG ECHO’s priority remains the improvement / expansion of the water distribution network to provide access to safe piped water to more households and to reduce dependency on water trucking and the environmental footprint. More environmentally friendly solutions are needed.

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• Health: DG ECHO will focus on reinforcing the health services delivery through the provision of essential medical items and the reinforcing the supply chain in order to establish a system that will respond to the health needs of the population.

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• Coordination: Coordination among the humanitarian actors, advocacy and visibility are instrumental to raise the profile of the crisis and attract development/stabilisation as well as non-traditional donors. DG ECHO expects all the implementing partners to include this dimension in their project proposals.

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• Livelihoods: The results of the 2025 livelihoods review has to be widely disseminated to encourage other donors/actors to support Livelihood sector. Relevant activities initiated in 2025 thanks to ECHO support may be continued as to ensure their self-sustainability by end 2026.

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• Education in Emergencies (EiE): DG ECHO may continue its support to the implementation of the 2021-2025 multi-annual strategy to ensure access to quality education for all children. DG ECHO pays particular attention to children not enrolled or at risk of dropping out, should enough funding be made available.

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• DG ECHO will continue to contribute to meeting humanitarian needs of the most vulnerable following a “one refugee approach”, prioritising multipurpose cash assistance (MPCA) to maximise the impact of its available funding for Egypt in 2026. Moreover, DG ECHO will maintain its engagement in Education in Emergencies, and strengthen the protection response, more specifically Child Protection and GBV. Protection mainstreaming is to be integrated into all actions (see the policy annex for details).

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• Basic Needs Approach (BNA)/Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance (MPCA): Considering the negative impact of the ongoing socio-economic crisis and its effect on the most vulnerable, DG ECHO will continue funding MPCA to address basic needs of refugees and asylum seekers. This will be based on a fully-fledged one refugee approach, a robust needs analysis, and well- defined targeting criteria to ensure those most in need receive assistance.

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• Education in Emergencies (EiE): DG ECHO will support actions that enable sustainable access to safe and quality education, with a differentiated and equitable response targeting out-of- school children/adolescents, and those at risk of dropping out, with a specific attention to the Sudanese refugee situation. Education programs should include child protection integrated

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• component as per EiE policy including GBV risks prevention in schools and community learning centres.

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• Protection: GBV related interventions and child protection will be considered through integrated programming to mitigate protection risks and ensuring that specialised protection services are made available for persons identified at heightened protection risks, particularly unaccompanied and separated children and GBV survivors. Protection interventions shall be based on thorough protection risk analysis.

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• Coordination: DG ECHO will continue to promote enhanced coordination and advocacy for an effective and efficient humanitarian response based on a full one-refugee approach. Coordination will also be of essence to promote the operationalisation of a nexus framework.

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• In Libya, funds will be used to continue addressing the immediate healthcare and WASH needs of the affected newly arrived refugee population. Given the limitations of access to the south- western region, ECHO will work with partners already present in the area.

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• Disaster Preparedness within this HIP: DG ECHO has dedicated funding available for targeted DP actions and will focus on regional strategies and approaches that promote anticipatory/early actions, based on forecasts from recognised authorities/sources and backed up by a comprehensive preparedness gap analysis. DG ECHO will focus on local actor’s capacity and Multi Hazard Early Warnings Systems. Synergies with EU Civil Protection Mechanism, nexus opportunities with other EU instruments and the Authorities will be explored where practical and feasible.

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• In addition, within another specific HIP for regional actions, DG ECHO will continue to address the specific humanitarian challenges that cut across national borders via targeted and innovative regional initiatives that should include notably empowering local responders and local protection networks to protect persons on the move, especially children.

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• Sahrawi crisis: The 4-year programmatic partnership (PP) with WFP will be finalised by end 2026 with a focus on a more targeted approach to the most food insecure Households and higher cost efficiency notably through alternatives to in-kind distribution

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• No further Programmatic Partnership opportunities have been pre-identified for 2026 under the North Africa HIP at this stage.

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• Despite an annual budget, DG ECHO continues to support multi-year projects (initial funding allocation for 24 months) in case the partner organisation demonstrates the efficiency gains and the operational logic of a longer-lasting project, as it is for example already the case with Education in Emergencies and disaster preparedness projects that usually run for at least two years. Multi-year funding can also be used to embed environmental considerations in projects.

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• In addition to the resources of this HIP, DG ECHO can also mobilise under other instruments, such as ReliefEU, an emergency response tool designed to cover unforeseen humanitarian needs emerging after the adoption of the Worldwide Decision that cannot be immediately covered by geographic or regional HIPs. ReliefEU supports humanitarian partners’ operations in the form of emergency funding or operational capacities, to provide effective, efficient, and timely assistance to people in need, ahead of a predictable hazard through early response, in the aftermath of a disaster (natural or human-induced including epidemics) and in protracted crises where operational gaps are identified.

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Partner eligibility

• Only ECHO partners are eligible to submit a project for funding23;

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• No award will be made to NGO partner organisations which have not complied with their obligations concerning the submission of audited financial statements (i.e., which would not have submitted those in due time to the Commission without a proper justification) or which would appear not to offer sufficient guarantee as to their financial capacity to implement the proposed actions (in light of their liquidity and solvency ratios as appearing from their latest available annual statutory accounts certified by an approved external auditor).

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• All awards made using EU Funds must respect the Conditionality Measures24 issued under any Council Implementing Decision adopted in accordance with Article 6 of EU Regulation 2020/2092 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget25 (“Conditionality Decision”).

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• The Commission hereby notifies applicants under this HIP/TA of the following Conditionality Decision (valid at the date of publication of this HIP/TA):

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• 24 Conditionality Measures against a Concerned Entity, may, for example, include, amongst others, the requirement to:suspend payments or the implementation of the legal commitment to/with the Concerned Entity; and/or terminate the legal commitment with the Concerned Entity; and/or prohibit entering into new legal commitments with the Concerned Entity. Conditionality Decisions and Measures issued under Council Implementing Decisions may impact the implementation of grants, contributions and procurement contracts awarded, as the Commission is required to ensure the application of these Conditionality Decisions

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• and Measures in the implementation of the EU budget via both direct and indirect management. implementation of grants, contributions and procurement contracts awarded, as the Commission is required to ensure the application of these Conditionality Decisions and Measures in the implementation of the EU budget via both direct and indirect management.

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• 25 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget OJ L 433I , 22.12.2020, p. 1–10

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• 27 Act IX of 2021 on public interest trust foundations with a public service mission (entry into force 01/01/2023).

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• 28 Available (in Hungarian) at:[https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00](https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2021-9-00-00)

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• Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506 of 15 December 2022 on measures for the protection of the Union budget against breaches of the principles of the rule of law in Hungary26.

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• This Conditionality Decision, in particular its Article 2.2, prohibits legal commitments under direct and indirect management with any public interest trust established by Hungarian Act IX of 202127, including those entities listed in Annex I to Hungarian Act IX of 202128 and other affiliated entities maintained by them (“Concerned Entities”). The Commission will further notify when the above- mentioned Conditionality Measures are lifted.

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Apply the round-specific restrictions below together with the complete partner and award conditions.

Allocation rounds and submission dates

Official documents and versions

• HIP version 3 ↗ Version 3 · document read · 4 Nov 2026, 09:59 UTC
• Technical annex version 3 ↗ Version 3 · document read · 4 Nov 2026, 09:59 UTC

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