The Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe, also known as the NDICI-GE or simply Global Europe, is a European Union financial instrument through which the EU invests in development, improving governance, and fighting climate change in non-EU states.
Negotiations for the establishment of the NDICI-GE were concluded in December 2020, and the structure of the instrument was approved by the Council of the European Union.
[4][5] Previously, EU external spending on development was channelled through multiple separate financial instruments.
It concluded that the instrument had proven "fit for purpose", but noted that, despite improvements over previous funding mechanisms it was still insufficiently flexible to respond to unexpected global events.
At its establishment, it was broken down into four pillars:[4][5] 10% of the total budget is "dedicated particularly to actions supporting management and governance of migration and forced displacement".