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This week's feature | European Parliament debate raises hopes for stronger political engagement on EU policy coherence for development
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What next for the Joint Africa-EU Strategy?  Perspectives on revitalising an innovative framework

The Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) was conceived as an innovative and far-reaching new partnership, in Lisbon in December 2007, with the aim of transforming the relationship between the two continents. After 2 ½ years of existence, the JAES is currently being subjected to an in-depth reflection amongst the official stakeholders about its architecture and the contents of the next Action Plan. This review process could result in proposals for “significant changes” to be discussed at the next Africa-EU Ministerial Troika on the 27th of April 2010, which will come to some decisions to present to the Third EU-Africa Heads of State Summit scheduled for November 2010. ECDPM, as an independent non-partisan foundation that has followed the JAES since its inception, has sought to contribute to this process in the form of a paper scoping on what could be next for the Strategy. The paper seeks to refresh readers on the original commitments made in the JAES and to provide analysis on underlying successes and challenges, including upstream (political) bottlenecks. It also presents 3 possible reform scenarios for the future of the JAES as well as perspectives on how they might be achieved.

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SAIIA and ECDPM meeting - Taking Stock of the Joint EU-Africa Strategy and Africa's International Relations, 11th March 2010


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Briefing notes on Budget Support, Lisbon Treaty and Division of Labour released as part of Whither EC Aid? project


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Europe, anno 2010: A new start in international development cooperation?

New joint report, “New Challenges, New Beginnings: Next Steps in European Development Cooperation,” is an initiative of ECDPM, UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI), FRIDE (Spain) and the German Development Institute (DIE).

For more analysis, see also our Talking Points article by Jeske van Seters with an overview of the main issues covered in the Report.

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- The acp-eu-trade.org newsletter | no. 36, February 2010



- Trade Negotiations Insights. March 2010. ECDPM, ICTSD
- Coordinating EU Trade and development policy-making in a new context (D.Makhan)
- Creating a pro-development EU trade policy in a post-prefrence world (European Think Tanks Group)
- Eclairage sur les Négociations, mars 2010. ECDPM, ICTSD
- Coordonner le processus d’élaboration des politiques commerciales et de développement de l’UE dans un nouveau contexte (D.Makhan)
- Créer une politique commerciale européenne pro-développement dans un monde post-préférences (Groupe de think-tanks européens)
 




Local capacity developers
- Capacity.org | issue 38, December


- Europafrica bulletin | issue 31, November/December













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