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A strong cocktail or a weak punch? A case study of EDF assistance to the ACP private sector
ECDPM Discussion Paper 52 by Adam Dunlop, Maastricht: ECDPM, January 2004. Abstract: This case study highlights some of the difficulties and challenges faced by the European and ACP stakeholders in negotiating and implementing the rum programme under the 8th EDF. The aim of this case study is not to focus on the objectives and content of the 8th
EDF rum programme.Rather,it is to
contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding EDF assistance to the ACP private sector,in particular in the context of the necessary adjustment due to the loss of preference in the ongoing EU-ACP trade negotiations for Economic
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EU-Africa e-alert No. 11 October 2007
This e-alert aims to provide quick and regular information and analysis on the EU-African relations, especially the decisions and processes that have an impact on the implementation of the new EU Strategy for Africa. In this issue: (1) Focus: Human rights defenders and development agencies: towards enhanced synergies (2) EU-AU relations
(3) The African Union: Africa in a broader context and the RECs
(4) EU external aid: EDF 10, new instruments of EC external aid and EU development policy (5) Peace and Security (6) Governance (7) EPA negotiations (8) Migration and development (9) An actor in EU-AU relations: Third way and CARE Sudan. ECDPM, Maastricht October 2007.
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ECDPM Annual Report Highlights 2006-2007: The ACP-EU World in 2006
The European Centre for Development has published a short but comprehensive overview of the ACP-EU realationship developement in 2006 and ECDPM's present and futur projects and objectives. |
EPC - Policy Brief Africa
The European Policy Centre has published a brief paper, entitled 'The EU and Africa: Coming together at last?' It contains a short background analysis as well as a presentation of the current relations between Africa and the EU, including the EPA negotiation process. |
EU-Africa E-alert No. 8 / June 2007
This e-alert aims to provide quick and regular information and analysis on the EU-African relations, especially the decisions and processes that impact on the implementation of the new EU Strategy for Africa. In this issue: (1)Focus: Economic Partnership Agreements: the last effort? (2) EU-AU relations. (3) The African Union: Africa in a broader context and the RECs. (4) EU external aid: EDF 10, new instrument of EC external aid and EU development policy. (5) Peace and Security. (6) Governance. (7) EPA negotiations. (8) Migration and development. (9) An actor in the EU-AU relations: African Industrial Association. ECDPM, Maastricht, June 2007. |
EU Africa E-Alert No. 7 April-May 2007
This e-alert aims to provide quick and regular information and analysis on the EU-African relations, especially the decisions and processes that impact on the implementation of the new EU Strategy for Africa. In this issue: (1)Focus: Towards the Lisbon summit. (2) EU-AU relations. (3) The African Union: Africa in a broader context and the RECs. (4) EU external aid: EDF 10, new instrument of EC external aid and EU development policy. (5) Peace and Security. (6) Governance. (7) EPA negotiations. (8) Migration and development. (9) An actor in the EU-AU relations: Front Line.
ECDPM, Maastricht, May 2007.
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Audio Interview with Paul Engel from ECDPM
At the conference in Bad Honnef on Civil Society and the Joint EU-Africa Strategy (23-24 April 2007) the representative of the Panafrican Press Association (APPA) interviewed M. Paul Engel.
They discuss among other things the role of the Civil Society and
the importance of a joint UE Africa strategy in a global context. |
Governance in the European Union Africa Strategy
AfriMAP, the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, have submitted a contribution to the Europafrica website, focusing specifically on the implementation of European governance policies in relation to Africa. The analysis and recommendations in relation to EU policy in this area are based on the experience of AfriMAP, the Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project established by the Open Society Institute’s network of African foundations, in reporting on governance issues in Africa. |
OECD DAC Development Co-operation Report 2006
This year’s Development Co-operation Report by the OECD DAC looks at overall aid volume and examines
whether donors are on track to reach their goal of increasing aid to USD 130 billion globally and doubling aid to Africa by 2010.
The report looks at major trends which reveal where aid is going – which regions are getting the most, which the least;
which sectors (health, education etc) attract aid; and what impact are debt relief and emergency aid continuing to have on total
aid fl ows.
The report also offers ideas on how donors can do more to encourage greater domestic accountability for public expenditure
(which includes aid) in developing countries.
It also reports on some key measures of development co-operation, including the progress countries are making - or not -
in implementing the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and looks at how increased Aid for Trade can have the best impact. |
EU Africa E-Alert No. 6 March 2007
This e-alert aims to provide quick and regular information and analysis on the EU-African relations, especially the decisions and processes that impact on the implementation of the new EU Strategy for Africa.
In this issue: (1)Focus: Towards the Lisbon summit. (2) EU-AU relations. (3) The African Union: Africa in a broader context and the RECs. (4) EU external aid: EDF 10, new instrument of EC external aid and EU development policy. (5) Peace and Security. (6) Governance. (7) EPA negotiations. (8) Migration and development. (9) An actor in the EU-AU relations: AfriMAP. |
The EU's Footprint in the South
CIDSE and Caritas Europa have published a report "EU's Footprint in the South: Does the European Community development cooperation make a difference for the poor?".
It's aim is to evaluate the impact of the EC aid and give recommendations. |
Africa Agenda for 2007
This discussion paper of the German Development Institute proposes some suggestions for the German double presidency. Africa will be on the agendas of the G8 and European Union in 2007, when Germany will hold the Presidency of the G8 and, for the first six month of the year, the EU Council Presidency. Against this background, the present publication sets out to analyse and appraise the current challenges for sub-Saharan Africa and to consider basic aspects of cooperation with the African continent. It also contains comments on and assessments of the 'African Agenda 2007' and Germany's possible role as seen from international perspektive.
Bonn 2007. |
ECDPM Strategy 2007-2011 (french version)
At their twentieth anniversary ECDPM has published their new Strategy for the years 2007-2011. The EU-ACP Cooperation is one of their key issues. ECDPM, Maastricht, January 2007. |
ECDPM Strategy 2007-2011
At their twentieth anniversary ECDPM has published their new Strategy for the years 2007-2011.
The EU-ACP Cooperation is one of their key issues.
ECDPM, Maastricht, January 2007. |
Germany's Double Presidency: Any Novelty for the International Devlopment Agenda?
FRIDE (Fundación para las Relaciones y el Diálogo Exterior) has published an article on the key priorities of Germany's presidency of the European Council and the G8. The article summons the question, in how far Germany's Agenda will contribute to European and international development cooperation. |
Ten recommendations to improve EC cooperation with civil society
CIDSE has published a report of a discussion between CIDSE-CE an European Commission representatives about the improvment of cooperation between the EC and civil societies in developing countries. Brussels, 26 Januar 2007. |
ODI's Annual Report 2006
This year the Report has a central theme: What's next in international development? and it explores a range of issues on the development agenda for 2006 and 2007. |
E-alerte Afrique-UE -- No. 4
Cette lettre d’information a pour but de fournir une analyse et des informations rapides et régulières sur les relations UE – Afrique, spécialement sur les décisions et les processus qui ont un impact sur la mise en oeuvre de la Stratégie de l’UE pour l’Afrique. Elle fait partie d’un projet financé par la Commission Européenne et mis en œuvre par ECORYS, visant à renforcer la coordination, la complémentarité et la cohérence (les « trois C ») de l’action de l’UE envers l’Afrique. ECDPM, Maastricht, décembre 2006. |
EU-Africa e-alert No. 4
This e-alert aims to provide quick and regular information and analysis on the EU-African relations, especially the decisions and processes that impact on the implementation of the new EU Strategy for Africa. This newsletter is part of a project funded by the European Commission and implemented by ECORYS, aiming at reinforcing the coordination, complementarity and coherence (the “three Cs”) of EU action towards Africa. |
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The 10th European Development Fund: Where do we stand?
by Marie-Laure de Bergh, ECDPM, October 2006. This document gives a brief overview of the state of affairs on the 10th EDF and the next steps. |
eCourier August 2006
There is neither trade nor growth, without a good network of infrastructure. In this issue of eCourier, Antonio Garcia Fragio, Head of Unit for economic development, trade and infrastructure and communication networks at the European Commission's DG Development, reveals the huge plan for bolstering the African infrastructure network set up by the EU with the collaboration of the African Union. It will radically change the face of the Continent. Further topics: Elections in DR Congo and the diplomatic offensive of Latin America, the Middle East and Asia, notably China, towards Africa.
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eCourier août 2006
Pas de commerce ni de croissance sans un solide réseau d'infrastructures. Dans cette édition, Antonio Garcia Fragio, Chef de l'unité pour le Développement économique, infrastructure et réseaux de communication, commerce et intégration régionale à la Direction générale Développement et relations avec les Etats d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique, révèle le grand plan qui vise à soutenir le réseau des infrastructures africaines, lancé par l'UE avec la collaboration de l'Union africaine. Un plan qui modifiera radicalement le visage du continent. Autres sujéts: L'élection dans la République démocratique du Congo et l'offensive diplomatique de l'Amérique latine, du Moyen-Orient et de l'Asie, en particulier de la Chine, envers l'Afrique. |
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The EU and Africa: Meeting Expectations?
Report of an informal EU Member States meeting, Maastricht, 26 June 2006, organised by ECDPM. The report adresses two major questions on the EU-Africa agenda:
• How can the EU deliver on its EU-Africa
Strategy and how to put the Strategy into
practice?
• How can EPAs become a tool for development
in the EU-Africa Strategy?
Key concerns and expectations of ACP representatives have been
integrated in the two parts of this report. |
International Non Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter
London, 6 June 2006. The heads of 11 of the world’s leading human rights, environmental and social development international organisations have endorsed the first global accountability charter for the non-profit sector. The Accountability Charter sets out core values and operating principles for international NGOs. These include good governance and management; fundraising and multi-stakeholder engagement. It also makes specific reference to respect for universal principles (such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), independence, responsible advocacy, effective programs, non-discrimination, transparency and ethical fundraising.
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Studies on the impact of trade agreements on sustainable development: how much do they take development issues into account?
Concord Working Group Position paper, drafted by Anne Chetaille, March 2006. Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIAs) – studies of the impact that trade agreements have on sustainable development – were designed by the EU as a tool to help negotiators in making decisions. SIAs are based on an integrated approach, aimed at identifying all the economic, environmental and social impacts of trade negotiations. More than five years after they were launched, the verdict on them appears mixed. Aside from possible technical and methodological difficulties, the question arises to what extend they do in fact lead to a readjustment of the negotiators’ positions, moving them closer to the goals of sustainable development. This paper analysis the status quo and gives recommendations on methodological questions and political choices how to make SIAs more useful for negotiators.
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Les études d’impact des accords commerciaux sur le développement durable : quelle prise en compte des enjeux de développement ?
Concord Groupe de Travail du Commerce, note de position rédigée par Anne Chetaille, Mars 2006. Les études d’impact sur le développement durable (EIDD) des accords commerciaux ont été conçues par l’Union européenne comme un outil d’aide à la décision pour les négociateurs, chargés de promouvoir une politique commerciale « plus durable ». Les EIDD reposent sur une approche intégrée, visant à identifier l’ensemble des impacts économiques, environnementaux et sociaux des négociations commerciales. Plus de cinq ans après leur lancement, le bilan apparaît mitigé. Au-delà de difficultés techniques et méthodologiques possibles, on peut s’interroger dans quelle mesure un réajustement des positions des négociateurs vers des objectifs de développement durable entraînent-elles effectivement? La note examine le status quo et donne des récommandations aux questions méthodologiques et aux choix politiques pour augmenter le bénéfice des EIDD pour les négociateurs. |
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eCourier - The online-newsletter of ACP-EU development cooperation
No. 7, January 2006. In this issue: 1. Main story of the month - The fight against corruption as a milestone in setting up European development policy. EC DG Development Deputy Director General, Athanassios Theodorakis, stresses the importance of good governance in the new approach of the EU towards Africa. There is no possible growth without good governance. Further topics: 2005 - a year of earthquakes, floods and famine. EU humanitarian aid and natural desasters; Time for the future - ACP research and innovation capacity must be strengthened to achieve agricultural and rural development.
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eCourier - La lettre d'information en ligne de la coopération au développement ACP-UE
No. 7, janvier 2006. Dans cette édition: 1. Le récit du mois: La lutte contre la corruption constitue une priorité de la politique européenne de développement. Le Directeur Général adjoint de la DG Développement de la CE Athanassios Theodorakis, montre l’importance d’une bonne gouvernance au sein de la nouvelle approche de l’UE envers l’Afrique. Il n’y a pas de croissance possible sans bonne gouvernance. Autres thèmes: 2005 - une année de tremblements de terre, d’inondations et de famine. L’aide humanitaire de l’UE au cours d’une année de catastrophes naturelles; L'heure du futur - la recherche sur les pays ACP et la capacité d’innovation doivent être renforcées pour permettre un développement rural et agricole. |
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The European Union's Development Agenda in 2005/06: Maintaining Consistency between Words and Deeds
by Eurostep. Abstract: "As the EU institutions reconvene after the summer break, it is an opportune moment to take stock of the many debates, which are shaping our European Development Agenda. With the repeated warnings that development targets will not be met, that globalisation is widening inequalities, and that global warming could increase climatic instability more action is required to address these issues, not less. This paper describes what is needed over the coming months if a Responsible Europe is to be realised."
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When Agreement Breaks Down, What Next? The Cotonou Agreement's Article 96 Consultation Procedure
by James Mackie & Julia Zinke, ecdpm Discussion Paper 64A, Maastricht 2005. This discussion paper is intended as a basic introduction to Article 96 of the EU-ACP Cotonou Partnership
Agreement. It looks at the content and meaning of the article, as well as the consultation procedures for which
the article provides when one of the signatory parties feels that the Agreement's essential elements have been
breached.
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Suspension of Development Cooperation: An Instrument to Promote Human Rights and Democracy?
by Hadewych Hazelzet, ecdpm Discussion Paper 64B, Maastricht 2005. This paper looks at the European Union's suspension
of development cooperation with countries perceived
to have violated the principles of human rights,
respect for the rule of law and democratic principles
as laid out in the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement. In
particular, it answers the following questions: Under
what conditions did the EU suspend development
cooperation in response to such violations between
1989 and 2001, and what factors have contributed to
the success (increased respect for human rights, the
rule of law and democratic principles) or failure (continued
violations) of this instrument? This paper first provides a short historical overview
of the origins of the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements
and the inclusion of a human rights clause in these
documents and the moves on to its main purpose: to analyse all potential cases of suspension
of development cooperation for the period
between 1989 and 2001. |
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Assessment of the EC Development Policy
18 February 2005. This DPS Study Report, undertaken by ECDPM, ODI and ICEI, analyses the EU's Development Policy Statement by considering the international as well as the changing EU context. Research findings deal with the value and use made of DPS and show bottlenecks of implementation. Options for the future are presented, and an annex contains selected country case studies. |
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Budgetising the European Development Fund
A CONCORD Cotonou Working Group Response to the Commission Communication, January 2004. (The Commission's Communication here referred to can be found at this website under Downloads: Official Documents/ACP-EU/EU-Documents.) |
The ACP CSP Mid-Term Reviews: A credible Contribution towards the Millenium Development Goals?
An Eurostep Discussion Paper, January 2004.
Abstract: "This paper aims to set out our concerns and expectations on the policy, conduct and outcome
of the foreseen Mid-Term Reviews (MTRs) of EU Country Strategy Papers (CSPs) for ACP
countries. The underlying objective behind this exercise is to ensure that the National
Indicative Programmes and Country Strategy Papers effectively advance poverty eradication
in line with the goals of European development policy, the ACP-EU partnership and the UN
Millennium Development Goals."
(For more information, please find the Commission's Guidelines for 2004 Mid-Term Reviews at this website under Downloads/Official Documents/ACP-EU/EU-Commission.) |
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Mid-Term Reviews. Perfomance-based Partnerships in ACP-EU Cooperation
by Jonas Frederiksen, in: ecdpm InBrief, No. 5, October 2003. Abstract: A key element of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement is a shift away from a system of aid entitlements towards a more flexible, performance-based allocation of EU development resources. The objective is to introduce flexibility without jeopardising predictability and to reward performance without neglecting the poverty focus of the agreement, which would penalise the poor. For the first time in the history of ACP-EU cooperation, performance-based mid term-reviews will be undertaken in 2004." |
Integration of co-operation with ACP countries in the EU budget: The Budgetisation of the EDF
EUROSTEP Discussion Paper. Eurostep argues that while the principles of budgetisation should be supported, the current lack of uncertainty about how the role of development policy will be set in a future Europe could result in budgetisation weakening, rather than strengthening a poverty focused approach to the EU's co-operation with developing countries, and particularly the countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group.
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Too hot to handle? The absence of trade policy from PRSPs
by Paul Ladd, Christian Aid, April 2003. Abstract: "This research finds that the current round of PRSPs sais very little about trade policy. More importantly, even where PRSPs do contain a discussion on trade, trade policy
choices are rarely underpinned by a holistic analysis of poverty in each country. PRSPs fail to
consider the impacts of trade on different groups of poor and vulnerable people. Effects are not
disaggregated between consumers, producers and employees, between urban and rural
populations, or by gender. Dimensions of poverty beyond income – risk and insecurity, access to
services, and empowerment – are almost completely ignored." |
EU Enlargement: Implications and opportunities for EU Development Cooperation
by Monica Press, BOND Briefing, Feb. 2003. "In 2004, 10 additional countries are scheduled to become members of the European Union. These 10 countries bring with them unique histories, cultures, attitudes to development and political priorities. They will have full voting rights alongside the current 15 members." |
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2002 and earlier / 2002 et avant
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Communication from the Commission on Participation of Non-State Actors in EC Development Policy
Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, 07.11.2002.
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Improving the Governance of European Foreign Aid. Development Co-operation as an element of Foreign Policy
by Carlos Santiso, CEPS WORKING DOCUMENT NO. 189, OCTOBER 2002.
Abstract: "Should European Union (EU) member states "re-nationalise" foreign aid? Considering the
dismal record of the aid managed by the European Commission, this is a legitimate question
that European leaders nevertheless seem unwilling to address seriously." |
Does the European Union's Development Policy Have Any Future?
by Stephen J. H. Dearden, September 2002, published at EDPSG (European Development Policy Study Group) website. Abstract: "This paper reviews the response of the European Commission to a number of
critical assessments of its administration of the EU’s development assistance
programme. Focusing particularly upon the ACP group it considers the recent Cotonou Agreement in the context of this reform agenda. Finally it offers an assessment of the options that may present themselves should this reform programme fail to satisfy criticism from the Member States." |
Evaluation de la coopération de la CE en matière d'appui institutionnel aux Ordonnateurs Nationaux et Régionaux du Fonds Européen de Développement
produit par GRET et COTA à la demande et pour le compte de la Commission de l'UE, juin 2002.
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