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[size=9]This is the weekly e-alert on ACP-EU News.
Information
provided in weekly e-alerts is available via daily updated RSS feeds
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I
need to improve the quality of the weekly e-alert with information and
analysis from beyond what’s available on the internet. If you have a
moment to pass on anything that could usefully be included I’d be most
grateful. It will be non-attributable of course (unless you prefer
otherwise). If you provide information, then others will too with
information useful to you.
All the best,
Melissa[/size] New at ECDPM
*Please find attached last week's updates of "EPA Negotiations: Where do we stand?". These pages can be accessed online at www.acp-eu-trade.org/epa and www.ecdpm.org/epa
French
versions of the updates for the all ACP view, Central Africa, West
Africa and East and Southern Africa will be available shortly at www.acp-eu-trade/ape and www.ecdpm.org/ape
As always, we welcome any comments or suggestions yo!
u may
have.*New EU Aid for Trade Strategy: a window of opportunity?
Forthcoming in Trade Negotiations Insights, Vol. 6, No.8, ECDPM/ICTSD, December 2007
In
October 2007, the European Union (EU) adopted the ‘EU Strategy on Aid
for Trade’, aimed at enhancing its support for developing countries’
capacity to benefit from international trade1. This strategic framework
has to be seen in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
‘Doha Development Round’ and the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
currently being negotiated between the EU and ! the
African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. The EU Strategy to
deliver more and better aid for trade (AfT) was adopted a month before
the WTO Global Review of Aid for Trade in Geneva (20-21 November 2007)
and during the final stages of the heated EPA negotiations.
Given
the modest outcome of the Global Review and the continued difficulties
to substantiate the WTO process on aid for trade, the implementation of
the EU Strategy can be regarded as a concrete test on whether AfT is
going to be ‘business as usual’ or an innovative instrument for more
effective trade-related assistance. This is particularly relevant for
those ACP countries that will sign an EPA, since the Strategy will have
to respond immediately to specific trade-related needs, though AfT is
not and should not be conditional to the conclusion of an EPA.
http://www.acp-eu-trade.org/library/files/Fredereiksen-Rampa_EN_1207_ECDPM_New-EU-AfT-Strategy.pdf*Impact of communication in development: where is the proof?
Although
the importance of communications has been recognised for several years
now, the development community have recently recognised the need to
demonstrate the impact of this. Recently launched Development
Communications Evidence Research Network (DCERN) website brings
together materials that demonstrate what does (and does not) work.
Designed
around five sectors -- agriculture, education, health, governance and
growth -- the website has been designed for “passively disengaged” i.e.
those w! ho have
not really considered the value of communications in their work. The
users can access materials, and create a synthesis paper for each
sector pulling together the most compelling pieces of evidence.
For more information, please visit http://www.dcern.org*Europafrica bulletin - Issue 12 - 7 December 2007
Contents:
EU-Africa ministerial meeting in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt
Preparations of the Lisbon Summit
African and European intellectuals raise questions about Lisbon summit
Mugabe on the agenda of the Lisbon Summit?
Trade tensions could overshadow EU-Africa summit
Zimbabwean youth at Youth Summit
Civil society side events
‘Non-official’ side events
Koen Vervaeke as EU Special Representative to the African Union
Conference: 'Continental shift? The EU-Africa Summit: opportunities!
and
challenges'
Creating a true and equal partnership between Europe and Africa?
Position by GCAP: ‘No to Africa-EU Strategy based on unfair trade deals’
Position by Geneva Call
Message from Catholic bishops of Europe and Africa
‘What does Africa need from the west?’
http://europafrica.org/2007/01/07/europafrica-bulletin-issue-12-7-december-2007/[size=12][size=9]*21-24
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