Réunion du Groupe d’orientation politique du Club du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
Dr Damien Helly, Chargé de programme adjoint, European Center for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
Paris - 11 Juin 2015
Comment harmoniser et coordonner les organismes locaux, nationaux et régionau...Sahel and West Africa Club
Presentation by Aguibou Diarrah (former Director of the African Union Border Programme and former Ambassador from Mali) at the Seminar on Cross-Border Development in the Sahel, Cotonou (3-4July 2018). The seminar was organised by the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) of the OECD.
Présentation par Aguibou Diarrah (Ancien directeur du Programme frontière de L'Union africaine et ancien ambassadeur du Mali) au séminaire sur le développement transfrontalier au Sahel, Cotonou (3-4 juillet 2018). Le séminaire a été organisé par l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) et le Club du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CSAO) de l’OCDE.
2015 forum des-organisations_de_la_société_civile-rapport-frFatoumata Chérif
Forum Société Civile de Banque Africaine de Développement à l'occasion des Assemblées Annuelles de la BAD et du FAD tenu du 25 au 29 Mai 2015 à Abidjan (Côte D'ivoire)
Economic Partnership Agreements: Current situation and future prospects
27th Meeting of the ACP-EU Economic and Social Interests Groups
EESC, 30-31 October 2014
Isabelle Ramdoo
Deputy Head,
Economic Transformation and Trade Programme
This document summarizes the current state of EU-Africa trade relations and implications of major trade deals. It discusses:
1) The status of Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and African countries/regions, including who has ratified them and what issues they cover.
2) Upcoming "mega trade deals" between the EU/US and other partners that could impact standards and regulations globally, potentially increasing compliance costs for African exporters.
3) Recommendations that Africa follow these negotiations closely, pursue its own regulatory reforms, advocate for its priorities at the WTO, strengthen regional integration, and ensure proper sequencing of trade commitments.
The implementation of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy: Rebuilding confidence and commitments
Dr. Damien Helly, ECDPM
DEVE Committee European Parliament, Brussels
3 March 2014
Unpacking local content requirements in the extractive sector: What implications for the global trade framework?
Trade and Investment in Extractive Industries
The E15 First Expert Group Workshop
Isabelle Ramdoo
ECDPM
13 March 2015
Policy frameworks can play an important role in leveraging mineral infrastructure for broader regional development in sub-Saharan Africa. Regulations are key but must be transparent, predictable, and flexible. They should be implemented where they exist and strengthened or adapted where needed. Alternatives to regulations like incentives and sequencing are also important. Overall, policy frameworks work best when they ensure coherence across countries and sectors through collaborative multi-stakeholder partnerships.
This document discusses the need for global cooperation on issues that affect Europe and global problems. It argues that Europe's problems require global solutions and global challenges impact Europe. The EU has tools to address five key 2020 challenges: the world economy, sustainability, peace and security, governance and democracy, and reducing poverty and inequality. However, the EU needs integrated approaches, policy coherence, and collective external action between its institutions and member states. If the EU provides leadership on issues like climate change, conflict, and development, it can help tackle important global issues through 2020.
Comment harmoniser et coordonner les organismes locaux, nationaux et régionau...Sahel and West Africa Club
Presentation by Aguibou Diarrah (former Director of the African Union Border Programme and former Ambassador from Mali) at the Seminar on Cross-Border Development in the Sahel, Cotonou (3-4July 2018). The seminar was organised by the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) of the OECD.
Présentation par Aguibou Diarrah (Ancien directeur du Programme frontière de L'Union africaine et ancien ambassadeur du Mali) au séminaire sur le développement transfrontalier au Sahel, Cotonou (3-4 juillet 2018). Le séminaire a été organisé par l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) et le Club du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CSAO) de l’OCDE.
2015 forum des-organisations_de_la_société_civile-rapport-frFatoumata Chérif
Forum Société Civile de Banque Africaine de Développement à l'occasion des Assemblées Annuelles de la BAD et du FAD tenu du 25 au 29 Mai 2015 à Abidjan (Côte D'ivoire)
Economic Partnership Agreements: Current situation and future prospects
27th Meeting of the ACP-EU Economic and Social Interests Groups
EESC, 30-31 October 2014
Isabelle Ramdoo
Deputy Head,
Economic Transformation and Trade Programme
This document summarizes the current state of EU-Africa trade relations and implications of major trade deals. It discusses:
1) The status of Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and African countries/regions, including who has ratified them and what issues they cover.
2) Upcoming "mega trade deals" between the EU/US and other partners that could impact standards and regulations globally, potentially increasing compliance costs for African exporters.
3) Recommendations that Africa follow these negotiations closely, pursue its own regulatory reforms, advocate for its priorities at the WTO, strengthen regional integration, and ensure proper sequencing of trade commitments.
The implementation of the Joint Africa-EU Strategy: Rebuilding confidence and commitments
Dr. Damien Helly, ECDPM
DEVE Committee European Parliament, Brussels
3 March 2014
Unpacking local content requirements in the extractive sector: What implications for the global trade framework?
Trade and Investment in Extractive Industries
The E15 First Expert Group Workshop
Isabelle Ramdoo
ECDPM
13 March 2015
Policy frameworks can play an important role in leveraging mineral infrastructure for broader regional development in sub-Saharan Africa. Regulations are key but must be transparent, predictable, and flexible. They should be implemented where they exist and strengthened or adapted where needed. Alternatives to regulations like incentives and sequencing are also important. Overall, policy frameworks work best when they ensure coherence across countries and sectors through collaborative multi-stakeholder partnerships.
This document discusses the need for global cooperation on issues that affect Europe and global problems. It argues that Europe's problems require global solutions and global challenges impact Europe. The EU has tools to address five key 2020 challenges: the world economy, sustainability, peace and security, governance and democracy, and reducing poverty and inequality. However, the EU needs integrated approaches, policy coherence, and collective external action between its institutions and member states. If the EU provides leadership on issues like climate change, conflict, and development, it can help tackle important global issues through 2020.
This document discusses the changing context and policy environment facing farmers and organizations that support them. It notes opportunities and challenges, including:
- Growing private sector engagement in development yet questions around impact and accountability
- Agricultural policy focuses on commercial farming and public-private partnerships but must ensure connections to smallholder farmers
- Networks and partnerships are important but need to demonstrate measurable, scalable success and ensure inclusiveness, accountability, and results
NIDOS Annual SeminarImplications for Scotland In a post-2015 & post-Referendum Era
What do the Referendum and the new post-2015 Framework mean for us in Scotland?
James Mackie, ECDPM, Maastricht, Netherlands
23 October 2014
DFID and World Bank are setting up a new facility, known as MICFAC, to help increase the access to microfinance services - such as loans, savings, insurance and money transfer services - for the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa.
How can we do this best? Find out more about the facility then have your say in our consultation at:
http://consultation.dfid.gov.uk/microfinance2010
This document discusses the challenges facing international cooperation in achieving an ambitious post-2015 global development agenda as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It identifies six main challenges: 1) Mobilizing all relevant parties and resources to implement the SDG agenda. 2) Moving towards more multi-stakeholder, multi-sector approaches and partnerships. 3) Taking a more "transformative" approach across sectors, conflicts, capacities and governance. 4) Shifting from technology transfer to supporting interactive social innovation. 5) Moving to more interdisciplinary, problem-oriented research. 6) Achieving policy coherence across external and internal policies. The roles of different actors in international cooperation will need to shift to effectively address these challenges through
Conférence Internationale de l’Académie des
Industries Extractives de la CEMAC
Isabelle Ramdoo
Chef-adjoint au Programme,
Commerce et Transformation, ECDPM
16 - 18 Juin 2015
Yaoundé, Caméroun
E15 Second Expert Group Meeting
Reinvigorating Manufacturing: New Industrial Policy and the Trade System
Isabelle Ramdoo
Deputy Head of Programme
Trade and Economic Transformation
Geneva, 4-5 December 2014
This document discusses policy coherence for food security (PCD4F), which aims to ensure that policies across different sectors support and do not undermine progress toward food security goals. It outlines some of the challenges in implementing and monitoring PCD4F. Key points include:
1) PCD4F requires policy statements, institutional mechanisms for coordination, and knowledge inputs to assess policy impacts. However, generating evidence to support PCD4F is still weak.
2) Some OECD countries have made commitments to PCD4F on specific issues like agriculture, trade, and food security. However, approaches to measuring coherence and incoherence between policies and food security objectives still need improvement.
3) Better methodologies are needed for ex
This document discusses industrial policies in lower middle income countries. It notes that LMICs have undergone a shift from agriculture to manufacturing, specializing in low-tech industries, but are increasingly involved in medium and high-tech manufacturing as well. Two main challenges are increasing productivity in labor-intensive industries to drive employment, and diversifying production toward more sophisticated products to avoid competition with low-income countries while improving jobs. The document examines case studies of pharmaceuticals in India, aerospace in India, and automotive in Indonesia to illustrate policies supporting capabilities accumulation, seen as important for industrial policy success in LMICs. It considers how trade policy regimes can facilitate this and the potential role for imitation through patent reform.
The European Think Tanks Group published a major report addressed to the new leadership of the European Union entitled “Our Collective Interest: Why Europe’s Problems need Global Solutions and Global Problems need European Action”. The report puts forward recommendations for the EU’s engagement in 5 areas – trade and international finance; environmental sustainability; peace and security; democracy and human rights; and, poverty and inequality – and proposes organisational and structural changes to enhance the EU’s performance.
Key questions in the run up to the Summit and the role of the PAP
Faten Aggad, Programme Manager, Africa’s Change Dynamics Program
Presentation to the Pan-African Parliament, 17 March 2014
The document discusses the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda and the EU's interests and positions. It provides an overview of the UN process to develop Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015. It also summarizes the EU's development policies, aid levels, and positions on issues like financing for development. The EU supports a universal and transformative SDG agenda but wants to ensure support and accountability from all countries.
1. The document summarizes discussions from a debate on Euro-Arab relations and local cultural development. Key themes discussed included decentralization and the role of local authorities/communities, new opportunities for funding and partnerships on the EU side, and how to better link funding and policy between the local, national, and EU levels to support areas like peace, economic development, and public space.
2. Participants provided feedback, noting the EU's work with local authorities through cross-border programs but calling for more action beyond just understanding each other. Questions were raised about redistributing cultural power between levels and actors.
3. The document provided an overview of the discussions and themes around better supporting and linking cultural development funding and policy across different
Linking African, European and international debates and align positions and priorities for implementation: Post-2015 debate, Agenda 2063 and the EU-Africa roadmap
James Mackie, Senior Adviser EU Development Policy
& Faten Aggad, Head of Programme Africa’s Change Dynamics
31st October 2014
African perspectives on Africa-Europe relations
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, European Training Course in Security Policy
Dr. Damien Helly
Policy Officer, ECDPM
19 March 2014
Dr. Damien Helly, Deputy Head of Programme, EU External Action, ECDPM
Meeting of Independent Artistic and Cultural Mobility Funds in the Mediterranean and Central America - Gulbenkian Next Future / Roberto Cimetta Fund'. Lisbon, Portugal. 18-19 June 2015
On Friday 3 July, ECDPM’s Francesco Rampa gave a presentation during the 'Save the Children’ event at the Milan Expo 2015. He talked about the role of the private sector and public-private partnerships in the agriculture, nutrition and food security sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In October 2009, Save the Children launched “Every One”, a large international campaign to put a stop to child mortality and make a substantial contribution towards the 4th Millennium Development Goal which is to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015. The fight against malnutrition – contributing to over 45 percent of all childhood deaths under the age of five – is a central element in the work of Save the Children, as well as education on a healthy diet that can provide adequate nutrition to children from the day they are born, and to their mothers. Participation in Expo Milano 2015 is an important step in drawing the attention of institutions to these issues and to raise visitors’ awareness about the causes and effects of malnutrition, reflecting on the challenges and the most effective solutions.
Save the Children participates in Expo 2015 through a series of activities, workshops, and educational courses aimed at children and adults to explore – within the Expo Site – the topics of nutrition and malnutrition and of agricultural development that is nutrition-sensitive. The Expo provides Save the Children with an opportunity to discuss the issues of hunger and nutrition in the context of defining the new post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations.
Dialogue politique et plaidoyer : comment construire une gouvernance territor...Sahel and West Africa Club
Presentation by Mariame Doukouré (GRDR), Mamadou Fadé (ARD Tambacounda) and Ibrahima Samba Thioye (Intercommunalité du bassin du Karakoro) at the Seminar on Cross-Border Development in the Sahel, Cotonou (3-4July 2018). The seminar was organised by the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) of the OECD.
Présentation par Mariame Doukouré (GRDR), Mamadou Fadé (ARD Tambacounda) et Ibrahima Samba Thioye (Intercommunalité du bassin du Karakoro) au séminaire sur le développement transfrontalier au Sahel, Cotonou (3-4 juillet 2018). Le séminaire a été organisé par l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) et le Club du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CSAO) de l’OCDE.
This document discusses the changing context and policy environment facing farmers and organizations that support them. It notes opportunities and challenges, including:
- Growing private sector engagement in development yet questions around impact and accountability
- Agricultural policy focuses on commercial farming and public-private partnerships but must ensure connections to smallholder farmers
- Networks and partnerships are important but need to demonstrate measurable, scalable success and ensure inclusiveness, accountability, and results
NIDOS Annual SeminarImplications for Scotland In a post-2015 & post-Referendum Era
What do the Referendum and the new post-2015 Framework mean for us in Scotland?
James Mackie, ECDPM, Maastricht, Netherlands
23 October 2014
DFID and World Bank are setting up a new facility, known as MICFAC, to help increase the access to microfinance services - such as loans, savings, insurance and money transfer services - for the poor of Sub-Saharan Africa.
How can we do this best? Find out more about the facility then have your say in our consultation at:
http://consultation.dfid.gov.uk/microfinance2010
This document discusses the challenges facing international cooperation in achieving an ambitious post-2015 global development agenda as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It identifies six main challenges: 1) Mobilizing all relevant parties and resources to implement the SDG agenda. 2) Moving towards more multi-stakeholder, multi-sector approaches and partnerships. 3) Taking a more "transformative" approach across sectors, conflicts, capacities and governance. 4) Shifting from technology transfer to supporting interactive social innovation. 5) Moving to more interdisciplinary, problem-oriented research. 6) Achieving policy coherence across external and internal policies. The roles of different actors in international cooperation will need to shift to effectively address these challenges through
Conférence Internationale de l’Académie des
Industries Extractives de la CEMAC
Isabelle Ramdoo
Chef-adjoint au Programme,
Commerce et Transformation, ECDPM
16 - 18 Juin 2015
Yaoundé, Caméroun
E15 Second Expert Group Meeting
Reinvigorating Manufacturing: New Industrial Policy and the Trade System
Isabelle Ramdoo
Deputy Head of Programme
Trade and Economic Transformation
Geneva, 4-5 December 2014
This document discusses policy coherence for food security (PCD4F), which aims to ensure that policies across different sectors support and do not undermine progress toward food security goals. It outlines some of the challenges in implementing and monitoring PCD4F. Key points include:
1) PCD4F requires policy statements, institutional mechanisms for coordination, and knowledge inputs to assess policy impacts. However, generating evidence to support PCD4F is still weak.
2) Some OECD countries have made commitments to PCD4F on specific issues like agriculture, trade, and food security. However, approaches to measuring coherence and incoherence between policies and food security objectives still need improvement.
3) Better methodologies are needed for ex
This document discusses industrial policies in lower middle income countries. It notes that LMICs have undergone a shift from agriculture to manufacturing, specializing in low-tech industries, but are increasingly involved in medium and high-tech manufacturing as well. Two main challenges are increasing productivity in labor-intensive industries to drive employment, and diversifying production toward more sophisticated products to avoid competition with low-income countries while improving jobs. The document examines case studies of pharmaceuticals in India, aerospace in India, and automotive in Indonesia to illustrate policies supporting capabilities accumulation, seen as important for industrial policy success in LMICs. It considers how trade policy regimes can facilitate this and the potential role for imitation through patent reform.
The European Think Tanks Group published a major report addressed to the new leadership of the European Union entitled “Our Collective Interest: Why Europe’s Problems need Global Solutions and Global Problems need European Action”. The report puts forward recommendations for the EU’s engagement in 5 areas – trade and international finance; environmental sustainability; peace and security; democracy and human rights; and, poverty and inequality – and proposes organisational and structural changes to enhance the EU’s performance.
Key questions in the run up to the Summit and the role of the PAP
Faten Aggad, Programme Manager, Africa’s Change Dynamics Program
Presentation to the Pan-African Parliament, 17 March 2014
The document discusses the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda and the EU's interests and positions. It provides an overview of the UN process to develop Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to succeed the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) after 2015. It also summarizes the EU's development policies, aid levels, and positions on issues like financing for development. The EU supports a universal and transformative SDG agenda but wants to ensure support and accountability from all countries.
1. The document summarizes discussions from a debate on Euro-Arab relations and local cultural development. Key themes discussed included decentralization and the role of local authorities/communities, new opportunities for funding and partnerships on the EU side, and how to better link funding and policy between the local, national, and EU levels to support areas like peace, economic development, and public space.
2. Participants provided feedback, noting the EU's work with local authorities through cross-border programs but calling for more action beyond just understanding each other. Questions were raised about redistributing cultural power between levels and actors.
3. The document provided an overview of the discussions and themes around better supporting and linking cultural development funding and policy across different
Linking African, European and international debates and align positions and priorities for implementation: Post-2015 debate, Agenda 2063 and the EU-Africa roadmap
James Mackie, Senior Adviser EU Development Policy
& Faten Aggad, Head of Programme Africa’s Change Dynamics
31st October 2014
African perspectives on Africa-Europe relations
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, European Training Course in Security Policy
Dr. Damien Helly
Policy Officer, ECDPM
19 March 2014
Dr. Damien Helly, Deputy Head of Programme, EU External Action, ECDPM
Meeting of Independent Artistic and Cultural Mobility Funds in the Mediterranean and Central America - Gulbenkian Next Future / Roberto Cimetta Fund'. Lisbon, Portugal. 18-19 June 2015
On Friday 3 July, ECDPM’s Francesco Rampa gave a presentation during the 'Save the Children’ event at the Milan Expo 2015. He talked about the role of the private sector and public-private partnerships in the agriculture, nutrition and food security sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa.
In October 2009, Save the Children launched “Every One”, a large international campaign to put a stop to child mortality and make a substantial contribution towards the 4th Millennium Development Goal which is to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015. The fight against malnutrition – contributing to over 45 percent of all childhood deaths under the age of five – is a central element in the work of Save the Children, as well as education on a healthy diet that can provide adequate nutrition to children from the day they are born, and to their mothers. Participation in Expo Milano 2015 is an important step in drawing the attention of institutions to these issues and to raise visitors’ awareness about the causes and effects of malnutrition, reflecting on the challenges and the most effective solutions.
Save the Children participates in Expo 2015 through a series of activities, workshops, and educational courses aimed at children and adults to explore – within the Expo Site – the topics of nutrition and malnutrition and of agricultural development that is nutrition-sensitive. The Expo provides Save the Children with an opportunity to discuss the issues of hunger and nutrition in the context of defining the new post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations.
Dialogue politique et plaidoyer : comment construire une gouvernance territor...Sahel and West Africa Club
Presentation by Mariame Doukouré (GRDR), Mamadou Fadé (ARD Tambacounda) and Ibrahima Samba Thioye (Intercommunalité du bassin du Karakoro) at the Seminar on Cross-Border Development in the Sahel, Cotonou (3-4July 2018). The seminar was organised by the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) and the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) of the OECD.
Présentation par Mariame Doukouré (GRDR), Mamadou Fadé (ARD Tambacounda) et Ibrahima Samba Thioye (Intercommunalité du bassin du Karakoro) au séminaire sur le développement transfrontalier au Sahel, Cotonou (3-4 juillet 2018). Le séminaire a été organisé par l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) et le Club du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (CSAO) de l’OCDE.
Plan de développement de bouiret Lahdeb_étapesFarid Herda
Brève introduction aux séquence de travail qui ont permis l’élaboration d'un plan de développement consensuel, négocié et participatif de la commune de Buiret Lahdeb (Algérie). Système d production dominant pastoral et agropastoral avec de sérieux problèmes environnementaux et risque de désertification.
La gouvernance du développement durable dans la FrancophonieJacques Prescott
Portrait de la gouvernance du développement durable dans les pays de la francophonie mettant en évidence des indicateurs du DD, quelques exemples de bonnes pratiques et des recommandations.
Une présentation émanant de l'Atelier sur le Mécanisme de Financement Mondial en Soutien à Chaque Femme Chaque Enfant qui a eu lieu à Nanyuki au Kenya.
Étude sur l’innovation territoriale dans le domaine des instances participati...France Marielle DANDILA
Dans le cadre d'une commande sur les dispositifs participatifs du Conseil Départemental des Hauts-de-Seine, nous avons réalisé un benchmark des instances participatives permanentes à l'échelle départementale.
Sous la direction de Joseph Salamon
Auteurs :
Gabrielle HERTZ
Lili KLEIN
France DANDILA
Rémi De Nève
et Timothée MANGEART
ECDPM operates as an independent European think tank established in 1986 with a mission to promote international cooperation to address global development challenges. It has a mandate to provide evidence-based research and analysis, facilitate knowledge sharing through dialogue and communications, and act as a non-partisan broker between partners in Europe, Africa, and globally. ECDPM has over 65 staff from European and African backgrounds working across 6 programs and 2 offices in Maastricht and Brussels. Its 2017-2021 strategy focuses on areas like European external affairs, African institutions, security and resilience, migration, and economic and agricultural transformation in Africa.
Jeske van Seters
Head of Programme Private Sector Engagement
European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM)
Brussels, 23 November 2017 – EBCAM General Assembly
This document provides an overview and analysis of the EU-Africa partnership and the EU-SADC EPA trade agreement. It discusses the context surrounding the Post-Cotonou debate on the future of EU-ACP relations and examines different scenarios for the partnership. It notes doubts around maintaining the ACP umbrella structure due to limited evidence it adds political value or can effectively address global challenges. The document also analyzes challenges that have prevented the EU-Africa strategy from achieving political aspirations and provides recommendations for improving the partnership. Finally, it outlines the provisions of the EU-SADC EPA and discusses opportunities and challenges for supporting regional integration in Southern Africa.
1) Peacekeeping operations in Africa face ongoing issues that require discussion of approaches beyond just peacekeeping, such as conflict prevention under the African Peace and Security Architecture (APSA).
2) The APSA provides a comprehensive framework for conflict management in Africa, balancing continental and regional responsibilities. It relies on cooperation between the African Union (AU) and Regional Economic Communities/Regional Mechanisms (RECs/RMs) in two-thirds of conflict interventions.
3) Strategic partnerships will remain important to support African peace operations. Cooperation is needed between the AU, UN, EU, and other partners on funding, capabilities, and institutional reform while ensuring African leadership.
Informal CODEV/COHAFA meeting
24-25 July 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
Volker Hauck/ ECDPM
(with thanks to UN-OCHA and Cell for Coordination and Liaison (CCL) for sharing slides)
Addressing the hunger-poverty nexus:
what policy coherence means for the 2030 Agenda
James Mackie, ECDPM
UN HLPF 2017 – Side Event: Finland, Netherlands, Switzerland, ECDPM & CFS
New York, 12 July 2017
Policy Coherence & the 2030 Agenda
Building on the PCD experience
James Mackie, Martin Ronceray & Eunike Spierings
EU PCD Focal Points meeting – Brussels, 22 February 2017
1. The EU faces increasing calls to improve coherence between its humanitarian aid and development cooperation policies as crises become more prolonged and political.
2. While EU policy documents have embraced greater integration, separate institutions and silos remain between the humanitarian and development "communities" within the EU architecture.
3. Key questions for the EU include how to maintain principled humanitarian action while pursuing more political responses to fragility; determining the appropriate level of integration between humanitarian and development work; and ensuring financial instruments are adequate to address new challenges.
Dr. Hanne Knaepen presented on scaling up climate-smart agriculture in Africa. She discussed the challenges of knowledge, finance, and governance in scaling up CSA. Her proposed solution is an inclusive, bottom-up approach that engages stakeholders at multiple levels. She provided the example of the cassava value chain in Africa and how measuring climate impacts and applying climate-smart practices across production and post-production stages could help smallholder farmers adapt. Finally, she posed four questions for debate around ensuring smallholder access to climate funds, leveraging more African climate funds, implementing science at the local level, and innovative NDC implementation.
AU Permanent Mission in Brussels
Workshop - Assessing the Progress and Challenges in the Implementation of Addis Ababa Agenda for Action (AAAA)
Wednesday, 21 September, 2016
Luckystar Miyandazi & Faten Aggad
ECDPM
This document discusses three potential scenarios for future relations between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) after the Cotonou Agreement expires in 2020:
1. Keep the Cotonou framework with revisions (continuity scenario).
2. Maintain an overarching ACP-EU agreement while deepening regional partnerships (umbrella scenario).
3. Focus relations directly through regional frameworks without an overarching ACP structure (regionalization scenario).
It analyzes each scenario based on its assumptions and perceived interests of ACP and EU actors. It also considers the realism of the assumptions/interests and provides advantages, disadvantages and risks of each. The document aims
1) The document discusses a political economy framework called PERIA that can be used to analyze regional integration in Africa. It identifies 10 key observations from applying this framework.
2) One observation is that foundational factors like colonial history, geography and economic structures shape regional organizations and integration challenges. Institutions also often prioritize form over function.
3) Actors like national leaders, regional hegemons, private sectors influence regional agendas and implementation based on their interests. Certain sectors see more political will for integration depending on the costs and benefits to leaders.
4) External factors like foreign aid and trade deals also impact the incentive environment for integration. Critical events can open opportunities for progress or blockage. The
Francesco Rampa
Head of Food Security Programme, ECDPM
28 September 2016, Pre-conference workshop at the Annual German Agricultural Economics Conference (GEWISOLA) 2016.
This document discusses the political economy of regional integration in Africa. It analyzes the key drivers and constraints of regional organizations in promoting regional cooperation on the continent. It uses five lenses to examine these factors: foundational structures, institutions, actors and agencies, sectoral characteristics, and external factors. Some key observations are that member states may signal support for regional organizations even when implementation is low priority; implementation occurs when aligned with national interests; regional hegemons influence agendas; and donors have significant influence but provide fragmented support. It concludes by discussing options for regional organizations to consider ambitions realistically given path dependencies and political realities.
1. Réunion du Groupe d’orientation politique du
Club du Sahel et de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
Dr Damien Helly, Chargé de programme adjoint,
European Center for Development Policy
Management (ECDPM)
Paris, 11 juin 2015
Restitution des travaux
sur les stratégies Sahel
2. • Mandat: production indépendante de
connaissance et rôle de facilitateur dans les
relations Afrique/Sahel- Europe depuis plus
de 20 ans
• Travail en partenariat avec les Africains –
Sur les stratégies Sahel: ISS Dakar, entre
autres
• Financement: à 70% par des Etats
européens sur la base de notre stratégie
formulée par les équipes
• Production de sources ouvertes (
www.ecdpm.org))
Travail d’ECDPM sur le Sahel (1)
ECDPM
3. •En mode d’écoute des praticiens: pas
d’agenda forcé ni d’objectifs autre que notre
mandat
•Exploration et questionnements sur notre
valeur ajoutée après 2011
•Objectif aujourd’hui: partager nos modestes
grilles de lecture et écouter les suggestions
pour notre travail dans le futur.
Travail d’ECDPM sur le Sahel (2)
Page 3ECDPM
4. 1. Introduction : contexte régional & débats
2. Analyse comparée des stratégies Sahel
1. Enjeux et opportunités pour la coopération
régionale au Sahel
Structure de la présentation
Page 4ECDPM
5. 1. Introduction : contexte régional & débats
Structure de la présentation
Page 5ECDPM
6. • Tendances lourdes: Atlas du club du Sahel
• Nouvelles crises (Ebola, Boko Haram) ont eu
un impact sur les dynamiques régionales
• Le Sahel a-t-il un épicentre?
• Multiplication des cadres de concertation et
soupes d’alphabets:
G5 Sahel (et déclarations de soutien),
Plateforme Ministérielle de Coordination (PMC) de
Bamako : ouverture au G5 + groupes
thématiques,
autres plateformes de coordination en action
(AGIR, intra ONU, etc.)
- Que faire de cette soupe d’alphabets ?
1.1 Tendances récentes, tendances
lourdes et débats
Page 6ECDPM
8. 1.2 Quels débats? (1)
ECDPM
Le Mali, épicentre des dynamiques
régionales ?
Quels points d’action dans la
tectonique régionale
et internationale ?
9. • Pourparlers d’Alger
• Concentration des énergies sur l’épicentre sahélien
(Mali) – violences récentes
• 15 mai: accord signé a Bamako par gouvernment et
Plateforme (signature partielle)
• Réunions à Alger produisent un document signé le 2
juin
• Déclaration de la CMA: signature de l’accord prévue
pour le 20 juin à Bamako
• Quelle suite ?
• Des processus à démarrer dans des délais courts (DDR,
RSS, réconciliation, missions des IFIs, etc)
• Pourtant la délivrance de l’aide a deja commencé.
Récentes dynamiques au Mali &
implications régionales
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10. 1.2 Quels débats ? (2)
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• Concurrence et efforts de visibilité par des
organisations, Etats et groupements
régionaux.
• Course à la légitimité
11. 1.2 Quels débats? (3)
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Stabilité, complémentarité et leadership des
exécutifs de la région
Quel dosage entre dimensions africaines et dimensions
internationales pour des solutions politiques ?
(Comfort Ero – The problems with “African solutions”)
12. 2. Analyse comparée des stratégies Sahel
Structure de la présentation
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13. • Objectifs: Soutien à la coopération régionale pour 1)
faire émerger des visions communes du Sahel, 2)
lier stratégies et impact pour les populations
• Cartographie faite en septembre-décembre 2014
• Suite à la demande du Secretariat Technique (ST)
ONU/UA de la Plateforme Ministérielle de Coordination
(PMC) mais besoins partagés plus largement
• 11 organisations : BAD, BID, BM, UE, UA, ONU,
CEDEAO, UMA, CEN-SAD, CEEAC, OCI
• 7 catégories de comparaison
2.1 Analyse comparée des stratégies
Sahel : approche et méthodologie
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16. Convergence sur les objectifs larges / secteurs et les pays
mais variété des définitions floues qui aident peu la
mise en oeuvre:
Développement & résilience (y compris infrastructures),
gouvernance, éducation – soupe d’alphabet a un assez bon goût
Ecarts entre types de stratégies avec ou sans ressources
suffisantes et d’autres ayant moins de ressources mais forte
légitimité
Logique de concurrence, risque de domination par les acteurs les
plus puissants / rapides risque de querelle des
architectures
Peu de plans d’action malgré leur importance, veille et
évaluation
2.4 Analyse comparée des stratégies
Sahel : autres clés de lecture (1)
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17. Des stratégies à l’impact:
Peu d’information sur les capacités réelles de mise en oeuvre
sur le terrain
Implications pour la transparence et la compréhension par
les populations
Intention de travailler en partenariat: premiers exemples de
synergies
ONU/CEDEAO, BM/G5, AGIR/Etats, BAD/CILSS
Intention de travailler en partenariat:
Besoin d’espaces informels de dialogue et diffusion des
bonnes pratiques sur des thématiques communes et concrètes
2.4 Analyse comparée des stratégies
Sahel : autres clés de lecture (2)
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19. Défi :
une meilleure gestion des connaissances pour
augmenter l’impact avec les populations
Une « Sahel clearing house » sur les
financements disponibles :possible,
souhaitable, déjà existante ?
20. 2.5 Elargir la cartographie des stratégies
Sahel: Etats européens, Etats-Unis,
Norvège, Suisse
• Aide humanitaire
• Assistance technique bilatérale
• Missions de sécurité/militaires (France), et participation
et soutien a la MINUSMA et missions PSDC de l’UE
• Aide au développement, avec des approches nationales
spécifiques
• Présence géographique comparée: Mali (7
ambassades), Burkina Faso (6 ambassades), Niger et
Mauritanie (3 ambassades), Tchad (2 ambassades).
21. 3. Enjeux, opportunités et approches pour la
coopération régionale au Sahel
Structure de la présentation
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22. 3.1 Quels enjeux et défis pour les
structures de coordination? (1)
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• L’impératif de coordination, paravent des
concurrences pour capter les
ressources ?
• Risque que la prolifération des structures
de coordination détourne les ressources
et dilue les énergies nécessaires.
• Des réflexions sur les méthodes de
coordination sont probablement
nécessaires
23. 3.1 Quels enjeux et défis pour les
structures de coordination? (2)
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Quelles forces
d’attraction?
•Magnétisme des acteurs politiques
influents, y compris les acteurs de
terrain qui agissent déjà.
•Magnétisme financier à court et
long terme: qui a la capacité
d’agréger d’autres énergies
politiques et économiques autour
des initiatives de mise en œuvre?
•Magnétisme humain et capacités
techniques de changement
Photo d'un aimant lévitant au-dessus d'un supraconducteur. Peter nussbaumer — German
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24. 3.2 Scénarios pour la coopération régionale
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Inevitable pluralité des cadres de coordination
Responsabilité diffuse, à négocier, transparence
Scénarios:
•Absence totale de coordination.
•Logique du « premier arrivé, premier servi ».
•Mécanismes de coordination (trop?)
institutionnalisés.
•Des « coopérations renforcées » au sein d’un groupe
restreint d’États/organisations/acteurs qui souhaitent
avancer ensemble.
•Des approches innovantes complémentaires
25. ECDPM
Modes d'action Définition Exemple
1. Diplomatie
internationale
accords internationaux entre les Etats, les
organisations régionales et internationales, ancrés
dans le droit international en vertu duquel les acteurs
ont une identité légale.
Accords internationaux ou des protocoles
d’accords; processus de Nouakchott.
2. Piliers nationaux des
politiques régionales
Construire les fondations nationales de piliers sur
lesquels pourront s’appuyer des politiques régionales
identifées dans les stratégies Coopération bilatérale a niveau nationale
3. Coopération
renforcée entre des
Etats
Entre des groupes d’Etats, poursuivant les mêmes
objectifs G5
4. Grappes d’activités
transfrontalières
Des voisins – et d’autres intervenants – travaillent de
part et d’autres des frontières ou sur les frontières
elles-mêmes.
Interventions avec des peuples et
communautés locales à cheval sur les
frontières; infrastructures à terre, maritimes,
fluviales, aériennes.
5. Actions
transnationales
Au-delà des frontières, couvrant des territoires sans
tenir compte des limites territoriales des Etats.
(flux financiers, industries extractives illicites,
communications internet, relations
religieuses et culturelles, imagerie satellite,
migrations, crime organisé, extrémisme
religieux, etc)
6. Agir en réseaux
La composition dépend des participants et des règles
internes des organisations membres.
Organisations de la société civile (Eau-Vive);
entreprises et secteur privé; organisation
internationales; etc.
3.2 Opportunités: 6 modes d’action régionale
26. Opportunités et approches innovantes:
•Soutenir des espaces de synergies sur le
terrain – niveaux local, national et régional - avec
ceux qui font déjà (développement-securité ;
développement-humanitaire, court et long terme,
etc) / risque d’actions isolées approche pluri-
disciplinaire et multi-acteur
•Faire circuler, à travers les architectures
institutionnelles, la connaissance, les bonnes
pratiques, les solutions approche des abeilles,
butinage et bourses aux solutions
3.2 Opportunités pour la coopération
régionale
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27. • Lier stratégies, plans d’action et mise en
oeuvre concrète sur le terrain avec les
populations et les opérateurs
• Appliquer les approches innovantes
(circulation, abeilles, butinage, espaces de
synergie, gestion des connaissances)
• Travail en partenariat avec tous les acteurs –
Club du Sahel et Afrique de l’Ouest ?
Remarques finales:
Poursuite du travail d’ECDPM sur le Sahel
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ONU, UA, CEDEAO, Banque mondiale, AfDB se demandait, G5, UE.
Contribution aux missions PSDC
24 Etats-membres contribuent a EUTM Mali
9 Etats-membres contribuent a EUCAP Mali
9 Etats-membres contribuent a EUCAP Niger
Message implicite des stratégies: les efforts devront être menés au niveau régional dans une perspective de plusieurs décennies.