The EU’s Food Facility is supporting an innovative approach in Eastern Africa to strengthen food security in arid and semi-arid lands. Last year, EuropeAid’s Daniel Clauss accompanied a review mission to the region to visit EU...
Could development professionals at the European Commission improve their efforts in developing capacity by drawing some lessons from experiences in the private sector? Consultants Paul Beaulieu and Robert LeBlanc, think they could...
As the European Commission and the Member States of the European Union are busy shaping the future of EU Budget Support, voices from civil society and developing countries call for strengthened budget support as one of the most...
Three years after the launch of its reform of technical cooperation, the European Commission is now looking beyond technical cooperation at ways to support capacity development more consistently across all areas of development...
While the United Nations’ Convention Against Corruption is an important achievement in the global fight against corruption, the real test of the Convention is in its implementation, which will be monitored.
Results Orientated Monitoring, or ROM for short, provides external, objective and impartial feedback on the performance of European Commission aid projects and programmes as part of the Commission’s commitment to quality assurance...
Office Quality Support Groups, known in-house as QSG, are a decision making process that brings together staff in headquarters with colleagues in delegation to ensure the European Commission funded projects are as good as possible...
The European Union delegation’s support for the Philippines’ Bureau of Customs has become a triple shot. Benedikt Madl, Programme Manager for Trade at the EU delegation to the Philippines, explains.
Making Technical Cooperation more effective implies making the European Commission more effective. That may be painful, but not impossible, argues Nils Boesen who has assisted EuropeAid in designing and implementing the TC reform.
How can partners address capacity development and what can you do to support them in the early stages of such processes? This is a key issue that underlies all European Commission efforts towards sustainability of development and...