The decision to engage in joint programming should be taken by Head of Delegation, together with Member State Heads of Mission, at country level. Factors to consider include the expected benefits and potential transaction costs of...
In much of the developed world, most work is formal – people pay taxes and social security contributions granting them access to health care, social benefits, and legal protection to enforce their workers’ rights. But in the...
The European Union and its Member States have kept their place as the world’s leading aid donor, contributing €68 billion in 2015. They have recently begun to present a united front, pulling together their combined resources and...
2015 SEED Awards Honour African and Women-Led Enterprises 2015 SEED Africa Winner, Loja de Energias, Mozambique. Photo: SEED Nairobi, 9 September 2015 - As the world gears up to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) later...
The gender equality-environmental nexus appeared in the international debate more than two decades ago. Still, a lot needs to be done. The international community gathers to discuss how to achieve gender equality in the context of...
Innovations in areas such as mobile payments and remote healthcare in developing countries are helping to turn the old development paradigm on its head. “It’s not any more the South which has the problems and the North which has...
The 2016 Council conclusions set higher ambitions for joint programming processes. They called for the inclusion of strategic issues such as migration, climate change, fragility, security and democracy in line with the EU’s...
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“Although development is a global [issue], the implementation is always local. Because it’s at this level that it is most effective,” said Mr Khalifa Sall, President of United Cities and Local Governments and Mayor of Dakar. He...
Joint implementation is a way of promoting more coherent, effective and coordinated EU support based on shared objectives in selected sectors or on specific cross-sectoral themes and tailored to the country contexts. Joint...