Expertise France (EF) has been confirmed as France’s main provider of public expertise in international cooperation based on the “security and development nexus (continuum)” and the French government has given EF the authority to mobilize expertise from all line ministries, specifically for projects funded by EU instruments.
ISSAT support was requested by EF to identify the strategic positioning of the public agency with regard to SSR and to offer operational recommendations, including how to incorporate an SSR lens to planning what are currently "train and equip" programmes.