| Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently negotiated by the ACP and the EU should not be an end in themselves, but be first and foremost instruments for development, as provided for by the Cotonou Partnership Agreement. While these new free trade arrangements offer new development opportunities, they also pose considerable challenges for the ACP. To ensure that the development prospects of the EPAs are fulfilled, close monitoring of the implementation and impact of these new partnership agreements will be of prime importance. ECDPM is dedicated to contribute to inform and facilitate this process. |
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 Introduction
Towards a Monitoring System for the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements
Aim of the project
- developing a flexible set of methods to monitor the implementation of EPAs and the impacts of key policies and measures related to EPAs with regards to development goals;
- identifying other key factors that will affect the achievement of the EPA objectives; and
- exploring options for the procedural integration of an EPA monitoring system in the EPA implementation process (design, implementation, analysis and use).
Consultative Workshops
ECDPM-DIE Second Consultative Workshop on A Monitoring Process for the implemantation of EPAs;
What recommendations for a way forward? Thursday, 14 June 2007 in Brussels.
> Documents which were distributed during this second EPA Monitoring meeting
> Summary Report on second consultative workshop
ECDPM-DIE Monitoring EPA Workshop, 23-24 April, Nairobi, Kenya
ECDPM, CUTS, FES and APRODEV organised a multi-sectoral workshop, with support from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The purpose of this workshop was to discuss objectives, key features, methodological and institutional options of an EPA monitoring mechanism in general and the development benchmarks itself. During this two day consultative workshop negotiators, private sector, stakeholders and trade, monitoring and development benchmark experts from the ACP and Europe were coming together.
> Day 2 Report from the Nairobi Workshop
>The full Report
An EPA Monitoring Consultation meeting was held on the 21th of February 2007 in Brussels
> Documents which were distributed during the EPA Monitoring meeting
> The Summary Report on the EPA Monitoring meeting
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Publications
> DIE-ECDPM study on Monitoring Economic Partnership Agreements, Inputs to the negotiations and beyond.
> The abridged version of ECDPM Discussion Paper 79: On the importance of Monitoring Economic Partnership Agreements: Principles and concrete steps for the negotiations and beyond, March 2008
> Discussion Paper 79: From Legal Commitments to Practice: Monitoring Economic Partnership Agreements.
> Conference background paper: (How) can research help to promote trade and development. Conference: Knowledge on the move: research for development in a globalizing world, The Hague, 26-29 February 2008. By San Bilal and Niels Keijzer.
> TNI article: Monitoring EPAs, the need to engage by San Bilal and Francesco Rampa, September 2007
> InBrief 18, How to Approach the Monitoring of the ACP-EU Economic Partnership Agreements: An Overview
> Designing a monitoring instrument for Economic Partnership Agreements: Methodological Issues, GTZ trade Matters, 2006
For publications in French, click here
Monitoring Workshop ECDPM-DIE, 23-24 April 2007, Nairobi (Kenya)
If you would like to share your views on possible monitoring systems for EPAs or if you would like to receive more information on this joint DIE-ECDPM project, please contact ECDPM:
Mr. San Bilal, sb@ecdpm.org, +31-43-3502903
www.ecdpm.org/trade/epamonitoring |
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