Weekly Compass Update

The ECDPM Weekly Compass news bulletin is your reliable source on the latest policy issues concerning international cooperation, with a focus on the EU and its relations with countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. It is delivered to your e-mailbox Friday afternoons. It contains fresh news updates and behind-the-scenes analysis of key policy processes relating to EU external action, conflict and security, economic governance, trade and regional integration, African Change dynamics and food security. The Weekly Compass is a rich source of information policy makers, analysts, activists and the private sector.

Latest issue

Weekly Compass – Issue 151 – 14 June 2013
Editor’s Pick: Mali implications for the Africa-Europe relationship
Contents: A more streamlined EEAS for the future; Latest issue of GREAT Insights focuses on financing infrastructure; Towards renewal or oblivion? Prospects for post–2020 ACP-EU cooperation; Baboons, blocks and borders – regional integration at 12kmph; Building on peace in the new post-2015 framework; To blend or not to blend?; How can China support the African Mining Vision?



Past issues

Weekly Compass – Issue 150 – 7 June 2013
Editor’s Pick: Mid-life crisis or peaceful future? The African Union at 50
Contents: Six 'spaces to watch' for future EU development assistance; Human rights based approach to development: Danish Minister Friis Bach talks to ECDPM; Japan and the EU: Friends of Africa?; African civil society perspectives on South-South cooperation; Good governance in Africa through taxation; Is policy coherence the answer to poverty? ‘Men get motorbikes, women get voice’. Questions on people-centred business; West Africa’s Aid for Trade strategy; Achievements and challenges of Trade-Related Assistance; Towards a European Global Strategy: Securing European influence in a changing world

Weekly Compass – Issue 149 – 31 May 2013
Editor’s Pick: African Economic Outlook: locking in better resource management from the outside
Contents: EU development aid: where to and what for?; All for one or free-for-all? Early experiences in EU joint programming; Between policy and practice: the EU Food and Nutrition Security Implementation Plan; Plugging the drain of Africa’s illicit financial flows; Food security challenges cast dark light on MDG progress; Seizing opportunities to link aid with public service delivery

Weekly Compass – Issue 148 – 24 May 2013
Editor’s Pick: Europe’s relations with Southern partners now more reciprocal, more equal
Contents: Clarity on EU migration and development policies; Looking at food security through the PCD lens; Political Economy Analysis necessary for effective natural resource management 

Weekly Compass – Issue 147 – 17 May 2013
Editor’s Pick: Lessons learnt and recommendations in mediation and dialogue
Contents: Doing better on EU visibility - lessons for the EEAS Review; Mali donors’ conference: towards low cost solutions?; Africa, Europe and its rivals in love; Interview with new Secretary General of the ACP Group on future ACP-EU relations; Overcoming challenges in resource management; “Africa, stop digging holes for the West”; The future of EU development cooperation in middle income countries; Better aid coordination; Are donors consistent in commitments to the Paris Declaration?; We’re still none the wiser after a heavy evaluation into the impact of EC support to PSD

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