Data Governance: Development of data policy frameworks and data use cases, as well as identification of investments in green and secure data infrastructure

The EU's Data Governance initiative for Sub-Saharan Africa sits at the earliest possible stage of the project lifecycle. According to EU sources, the programme is intended to support the African Union Commission, Regional Economic Communities, and their member states in developing data policy frameworks, building on the AU Data Policy Framework, with an additional focus on identifying investments in green and secure data infrastructure. Beyond this description, the public record is almost entirely bare. No financial commitment or disbursement figures have been made public. Searches of the IATI Datastore and the EIB project database return no matching records, meaning there is currently no independent, verifiable evidence that funding has been contracted, let alone deployed. The investment envelope remains undisclosed even at the announcement level, which is unusual and limits any meaningful assessment of the initiative's likely scale or impact. Independent news coverage offers no direct reporting on this specific programme.