The role of aid to middle-income countries: A contribution to evolving EU development policy. This Working Paper by ODI Research Fellow Jonathan Glennie, analyses current evidence, thinking and practice on international support to Middle Income Countries (MICs).
The EU’s Multi-Annual Financial Framework Post-2013: Options for EU Development Cooperation. This briefing paper by the European Think-Tanks Group coincides with the beginning of negotiations around Europe’s multi-annual financial framework (MFF). It analyses the changing development landscape, and sets out a series of recommendations for European aid mechanisms, post-2013.
A study on the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA). This study, by Elizabeth Colebourn, looks at the history and activities of the European Commission’s GCCA and reflects on some of the key challenges facing the alliance.
EU Blending Facilities: Implications for Future Governance Options. This study by the European Think-Tanks Group reviews the existing EU blending mechanisms, comparing their different governance arrangements, drawing lessons from each, and considers the pros and cons of possible future governance options for blending operations.
ODI’s response to the European Commission’s consultation on EU development policy
EU Financial Perspectives, 2014-2020. This background note, by Mikaela Gavas, describes the process for agreeing the new multiannual budgetary framework, and puts forward some of the key issues about the future of aid that will need to be addressed.
Consolidation or cooperation: the future of EU development cooperation. This paper by Simon Maxwell, Mikaela Gavas and Deborah Johnson explores the different roles that the EU might be able to play as a development actor in the future.
Global governance of the aid system and the role of the EU. This paper by Simon Maxwell, Owen Barder, Mikaela Gavas and Deborah Johnson assesses the effectiveness, efficiency, legitimacy, accountability and adaptability of the governance of aid with a particular focus on the European Union.
Development-proofing the EEAS. A European Think Tanks Group Policy Brief.
Setting up the European External Action Service: building a comprehensive approach. This Background Note outlines criteria to guide an assessment of the new institutional arrangements and mandates from a development perspective, highlights the issues being discussed and lays out options for a comprehensive approach to external action by the European Union (EU).
New Challenges, New Beginnings: Next Steps in European Development Cooperation. As the new European Commission takes office in Brussels and gives further shape to institutional innovations propelled by the Lisbon Treaty, ODI and three partner think tanks have called for a new impetus to tackle today’s global challenges.
The Future of EU Development Cooperation: Report of an e-dicussion by the EU Change-Makers Group. This report is a summary of the opinions and conclusions of a group of EU ‘change-makers’ who participated in an online discussion between September and December 2009.
Options for architectural reform in European Union development cooperation. This Background Note provides the context for a series of decisions taken in the second half of 2009 about the architecture and staffing of the structures of the European Union’s Development Cooperation and explores possible options.
Evolution of EU development cooperation: Taking the change agenda forward. This paper was written as background to a conference on the future of EU development cooperation in London in April 2009. See in ‘Our Events’ for the conference report.
