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Agricultural Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa -

The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) has promoted the integrated agriculture research for development (IAR4D) approach based on an innovation
systems framework.



Using small-scale adaptations to address food crisis in the Horn of Africa -

paper by Richard Munang and Johnson N. Nkem



Special Economic Zones for South Africa -

Paul Kruger, a tralac Researcher, discusses Special Economic Zones for South Africa.



A European Trade Paradigm for African Trade -

Paul Collier: Europe’s current troubles with the Euro should not detract from its success in liberating intra-regional trade: this is a model worth Africa emulating.



Africa: Continent Begins to Rise Above Aid -

11th January, Nairobi — An increasing number of African countries are beginning to step away from aid dependency, as the domestic private sector becomes the engine of growth across much of Africa.
Governance Profiles

Governance together with gender, environment, HIV/AIDS, human rights and democracy are in general treated as cross-cutting issues in Country Strategy Papers. As cross-cutting issues,  they are expected to be considered in every phase of the programming process.

In 2007, the European Commission introduced the governance incentive tranche which depending on the EC´s assessment, recipient countries may received more aid by as much as 35%. The EC has developed the Governance Profiles (GP) as a programming tool in order to assess recipient country´s core governance issues and respond accordingly. The The GP has nine (9) areas of concern:

(1) Political /democratic governance
(2) Political governance/rule of law
(3) Control of corruption
(4) Government effectiveness
(5) Economic governance
(6) Internal and external security
(7) Social governance
(8) International and regional context
(9) Quality of partnership

A detailed description of the GP is shown in the Explanatory Note.

The Governance Profiles of the following countries are now available: Benin, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritius, Rwanda, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda and Zambia.

Other country-related documents can be accessed under Country Updates.

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The mid-term review

A New Framework for European Relations with Africa, speech by Nick Westcott, Managing Director Africa EEAS, 18th October 2011 (English)
EU relations with Civil Society and Local Authorities in development, following the Structured Dialogue consultations: Role of delegations (English)
Briefing Paper from the Concord Cotonou Working Group: Civil society involvement in the review of the 10th European Development Fund (English)
Letter from DG Development to Delegations on extending deadline for consultations on the MTR to 15 November (English)
Response letter from Commission to EU NGOs on civil society engagement in the mid-term review (English)
Letter from EU NGOs to the Commission on civil society engagement in the mid-term review (English)
Please click here to engage in the mid-term review.
Please click here for our blog on the mid-term review.
The European Commission has now adopted the guidelines for the MTRs (English) (French)
EC Delegations in ACP countries should now be preparing consultations with civil society and other non state actors. The in-country stage runs from July to mid October. See timetable As of 16 October 2009 the deadline for the "in-country" phase has been extended to 15 November
A toolkit has been prepared to provide orientation for civil society actors to engage in the MTR (English) (French)
The EC has proposed a road map for engaging civil society in the MTRs (English) (French)
WWF orientation paper for the MTR (English)
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