FEI’s actions contribute to the objectives of administrative capacity-building and support for institutional reform processes. The ultimate purpose is to provide each partner with specific French experience and expertise so that they can develop their own policies and implement the most appropriate responses to the challenges that each society must meet.

FEI’s activity sectors include:

Human Rights

• Capacity building for human rights institutions
• Support for the fight against discrimination and for equality
• Support for the fight against trafficking in human beings
• Help with the definition and implementation of migration policy

Rule of law and security system reform

• Support for security system reform
• Capacity-building for civilian security institutions
• Support for the security of the electoral process
• Capacity-building for the justice system
• Fighting illegal trafficking, corruption and money laundering

Central government reform

• Support for modernisation of public administration
• Central government, local governance and regional integration
• Community assistance for reconstruction, development and stabilisation
• Local implementation of public policies

Development of independent media

• Support for civil society institutions
• Support for democratisation and transparency in the media and promotion of human rights
• Capacity-building for the media in order to improve the quality of public policy debate