What already works should be seen as good practice - the EU’s Comprehensive Approach to crises in the Sahel

- The EU's Comprehensive Approach is already being applied to a significant extent in the Sahel: in that sense what already works should be seen as good practice.

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- Where there is a lack of comprehensiveness in the EU’s response to the Sahel it is because of more structural shortcomings in EU external action as well as other external variables.

- The roles of the double hatted High Representative / Vice President Mogherini and Development Commissioner Mimica in endorsing a new and demanding action plan for the Sahel strategy will be instrumental to ensure coherence.

The EU Sahel Strategy very much pre-dated the efforts on the Comprehensive Approach. This latest Briefing Note from ECDPM's Damien Helly and Greta Galeazzi argues that the Comprehensive Approach is already being applied to a significant extent in the Sahel: in that sense what already works should be seen as good practice. 

More structural shortcomings in EU’s external action as well as external variables explain cases of lack of comprehensiveness. In upcoming months the role of the EU leadership in endorsing a new and demanding action plan for the Sahel strategy will be instrumental to ensure coherence.