The International Decade for People of African Descent (IDPAD) 2015-2024 was launched at United Nations Headquarters, New York in September 2014, by representatives of UN member states, international civil society and other stakeholders. This report briefly summarizes achievements made in the UN OHCHR Region of Europe, Central Asia, and North America, during the first five years of the decade, despite global challenges of fiscal austerity and rising nationalist populism faced by the African diaspora. For expediency’s sake I have chosen section headings according to IDPAD’s thematic objectives of recognition, justice and development. I discuss briefly achievements made at the regional, national, and local level. For example, the role of successful collaborations between European public bodies and civil society, to achieve justice at the regional level is highlighted; in contrast only a handful of state parties have implemented national action plans for IDPAD’s Programme of Action. At the local level, I focus on the African diaspora’s experience of IDPAD in the city of Bristol, which coincidentally was awarded European Green Capital in 2015. In 2016, Marvin Rees, reportedly became the first elected Black Mayor of a British city. The city’s administration includes other leaders of African descent including the Queen’s Lord Lieutenant of Bristol, Mrs Peaches Golding O.B.E., the former Lord Mayor Cllr Cleo Lake, and the Deputy Mayor Cllr Asher Craig. These and other civic leaders have been made aware of, and to varying degrees have included IDPAD's thematic objectives in their mandate for local policy development.