As discussions over Denmark’s new international development policy continue, Siân talks to Danish development news site U-landsnyt about the EU’s proposed policy of ‘differentiation’ and future cooperation with MICs. Read the interview here (in Danish).
March 5, 2012
Differentiation and MICs: A view from Europe
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February 10, 2012
The EU’s policy on differentiation: Tackling poverty and global challenges?
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On 2 February, Siân Herbert gave a presentation at a workshop in Copenhagen, discussing the EU’s new policy on ‘differentiation’ (‘Differentiation’ means reassessing aid to middle income countries). The workshop was hosted by Concord Denmark, the Danish NGO platform for EU development work, and attended by a variety of Danish NGOs.
The objective of the workshop was to define a common position on differentiation. The NGOs present were open to the changes proposed by the European Commission, and support revaluating aid to MICs. At the end of the workshop, the decision was taken that Concord Denmark will not engage with the debate regarding the proposed criteria for aid allocation, but will instead focus on where the funds should be redirected. Concord advised that they are engaged in discussions with the European Commission, ahead of the release of a communication on CSOs later this year.
The EU’s policy on differentiation has also been discussed recently by Andy Sumner, Andris Piebalgs and Simon Maxwell.
Siân’s presentation is available here.
September 15, 2011
‘EU aid: What’s it for?’
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If you have ever found yourself questioning what EU development aid should be for, then you should have been at our recent event hosted by the EDCSP team and Open Europe in London on 13 September 2011.
Around 120 government officials, academics, consultants, journalists and NGOs representatives turned up to grill our panel of experts, which included Baroness Glenys Kinnock (opposition spokesperson for the Department for International Development (DFID) in the House of Lords), the EDCSP’s Simon Maxwell (Senior Research Associate at ODI), Chris Heaton-Harris MP (Member of Parliament for Daventry), Stephen Booth (Open Europe’s Research Director), and Liz Ford as chair (Deputy Editor of the Guardian’s Global Development website).
To catch up on the event, read a summary here, or watch it on video here.
August 1, 2011
The role of aid to middle-income countries: a contribution to evolving EU development policy
Posted by edcsp under Research | Tags: aid development, development policy, Jonathan Glennie, LDCS, LICS, MICs, ODI, poverty |Leave a Comment
ODI Research Fellow, Jonathan Glennie, analyses current evidence, thinking and practice on international support to Middle Income Countries (MICs) in his paper on “The role of aid to middle-income countries: a contribution to evolving EU development policy.” He concludes that financial aid to MICs continues to play an important role in global development.
