The “EU Dev Days” are Europe's premier forum on international affairs and development cooperation. This year, more than 5000 people will gather in Brussels on 26 and 27th November for questions and debate around the event’s main theme - the Post 2015 Development Agenda.
The EU Development Days have evolved into the largest and most inclusive event on global development policy. Participants will gather at Brussel’s Tour et Taxis venue for the unique opportunity of face-to-face exchange of information and ideas, with particular focus this year on developing the inclusive and sustainable framework that is to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
“It is particularly important that all stakeholders can participate, and we can have government representatives, even Heads of State, engaging very directly with civil society, with development actors, and all stakeholders of our development policy,” said Klaus Rudischhauser, Deputy Director General of EuropeAid, in a welcome message to the event.
Capacity4dev.eu supports knowledge exchange online on a day-to-day basis, and will be present at the event to interview a range of policy decision-makers, development experts and beneficiaries, in order to share their ‘Voices & Views’ in the coming weeks.
Our EDD's 2013 page will direct you to the relevant capacity4dev.eu on-line group for each EDD theme, to facilitate collaboration during the event.
This year, EuropeAid is organising Auditorium sessions on:
- Land, Livelihoods and Sustainable Development
- Poverty Eradication and Climate Change: Friends or Foes?
- Will a Rights-Based Approach Make Development More Human?
EuropeAid will host/co-host these Lab sessions:
- What Role for Development Education in the Post-2015 Context?
- Blending as a Catalyst for Private Financing
- Soil Data & Information for Development
- Effective Development Cooperation in a Changing World: The Role of Business
- Strengthening the Role of the Private Sector
- Policy Coherence for Development
- Tackling Conflict & Violence Post 2015
Full details of the programme can be found on the eudevdays.eu website.
Mr Rudischhauser is confident that the event will be constructive towards defining the future agenda.
“Hopefully, we will be able to draw important conclusions that will instruct governments and negotiators, as they will negotiate in New York in the next two years,” he said.
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Thanks Nico.
To my opinion, it is extremely useful to have such a live forum gathering participants who can articulate ideas on development, and who range from practitioners to researchers and to political level. Have a look at the vox pop. for ideas of topics which may be relevant for the next issues, and be aware that further contributions and interviews recorded during the EDDs will be also be posted.