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NEW PUBLICATION The EU and Africa are each trying to find their place in an unstable world. Ahead of this year's AU-EU summit, the authors of this paper argue that the needs and expectations on both sides call for a new and more...
In 2019, will Africa be able to achieve greater unity, institutional reform and political clout? Will the future ACP-EU partnership push or hinder the aspiration of a partnership of equals between Europe and Africa? And how will...
This paper provides a first set of reflections on how to strategically finance an effective role for the European Union in the world beyond 2020, when the current multiannual financial framework will be replaced by a new one...
DFID is changing its approach to better address the underlying causes of poverty and conflict. A very interesting Blog post from Tom Wingfield and Pete Vowles explains how DFID is driving this change and where DFID is trying to go...
ODI publication - politics and governance Politically smart, locally led development seeks to identify the secret sauce behind 7 large and successful aid programmes: a rural livelihoods programme in India; land titling and tax...
The joint learning event seeks to provide development practitioners with an action-oriented introduction to the key elements of PE Analysis and possible actions/responses to enable them to make development cooperation more...
An interesting presentation of PEA by ECDPM. They quote Will Hout: "Donors that take PEA serisouly will become part of the political struggle. Otherwise they risk following the r oad to nowhere" Fully agree, however the roots of...
A interesting soundcloud that explores the ‘(re)politicisation’ of development studies and the need for constructive, rather than merely critical, engagement with policy makers. It includes a number of soundtracks on a critical...
Interestingly the report calls for approaches that are more political-economy sensitive and for the EU to work more together with MS (joint programming/coordinated approaches, etc.)
Just wanted to share a link with you instead of sharing comments http://www.learn4dev.net/expertise/policital-economy/ On the 19th of September, the PEP Expert Group met in Eschborn, Germany in order to discuss the new course on...
