8 EU member-states (France, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden), as well as 5 non-EU countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Georgia, Serbia and Republic of North Macedonia) have contributed troops to the mission.

EUTM RCA, in its 3rd Mandate, continues relying on three pillars: Strategic Advice, Education and Training.

Finally, the President of the Central African Republic formally invites the Union to deploy EUTM CAR in the country5.

At the beginning of February 2017, 35 Georgian soldiers arrive to take part in the mission as a "protection force".

EUTM RCA's mission is to "make the Central African Armed Forces (FACA) modern, efficient and democratically accountable.