The EU’s Regional Development and Protection Programmes (RDPPS): effective or too ambitious (and ambiguous) protection tool?

The chapter analyses the EU’s Regional Protection and Development Programmes (RDPPs), which have replaced the previous Regional Protection Programmes (RPPs) since 2014, to improve the conditions of both Syrian and African refugees and local communities in host countries. After a short introduction, Paragraphs Two and Three briefly examine RPPs and RDPPs, with Paragraph Four assessing the latter in light of some recent evaluation reports. Finally, in the Conclusions, these programmes’ positive and negative aspects are assessed, in light of future developments of the external dimension of EU asylum.