European Centre for Development Policy Management Weekly Newsletter
29 April 2016
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Dear <<First name>>,
Our Editor’s Pick highlights an ECDPM blog on CAADP’s future and the need to focus on informal private sector and politics.
We also announce several events - on multi-stakeholder partnerships, regional integration in africa and at the European Development days.
Read further for more and visit ECDPM’s The Filter news service for all the news collected on EU-Africa relations and international cooperation from this week.
There will be no Weekly Compass next week due to Belgian holidays.
All the best,
Melissa
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Editor's Pick
CAADP’s future? Focus on informal private sector and politics!
Two weeks ago, Francesco Rampa, Head of ECDPM’s Food Security Programme, attended the 12th CAADP Partnership Platform in Accra. The annual event is where all stakeholders get together to discuss progress on CAADP (the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme). He came back disappointed. In most countries, he says, CAADP still fails to deliver on the agricultural transformation commitments of the African Union Malabo Declaration. In his latest blog, Rampa discusses the future of CAADP and points out that it needs to focus more on the results on the ground, putting the private sector, including smallholder farmers, at the forefront of the transformation. This, he says, “requires a better understanding of the politics around agriculture and the informal parts of African food value chains.”
Policy News
Photo: UN Photo / Mark Garten via Flickr
UPCOMING EVENT: Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Implications for stakeholders
Inclusive multi-stakeholder partnerships are promoted as key instruments for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, little is known about how they work in practice. ECDPM has examined the main characteristics and institutional factors that drive and constrain the process of establishing and maintaining effective Civil Society Organisation-business partnerships. And we are currently conducting case studies from the Tanzania and Kenya dairy sectors and the mining sector in Madagascar and Ghana. We are organising an event in on 4 May to stimulate an open discussion on the dynamics of partnerships processes, and the implications for key stakeholders. Register to attend.
UPCOMING EVENT: Drivers and constraints to regional integration in Africa - The roles of regional organisations
Regional organisations play important roles in regional integration in Africa. Yet, there remains a major gap between the ambitious commitments or aspirations and the implementation on the ground. The African Union Commission, the Embassy of Sweden in Addis Ababa, and ECDPM will hold a meeting on 13 May to discuss the new ECDPM study on the political economy of regional organisations in Africa. The study looks at what is holding back implementation and what can be learned from good practices of effective implementation of regional agreements. ECDPM’s Geert Laporte will moderate this event, and Jan Vanheukelom will be a speaker.
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