Development
EU-Links
This is the homepage of DG Development. You can find the 'development policies' under the link wxith the same name but also under the link 'means and measures'.
Got to 'cross-cutting issues' (under development policies) to find information on development and HIV/AIDS, gender equality, democracy and human rights and environmental sustainability.Here you can find information on the work of the department, publications, key figures, news...
All the relevant documents on development. In the left sidebar you can find the latest development policy proposals; you can also search for documents like the 'code of conduct' or the 'European consensus on development'.
This website gives you all information on programming the EU's external assistance.
Information on the role of trade in bringing development to the developing countries and on the WTO Doha Development Round.
Use the quick access map to navigate to programmes for specific regions, themes or to specific programmes.
Here you can find the most important information on the policy of the EU towards development. Under 'main themes' you can find everything on Cotonou, HIPC, EDF, etc.; under 'council work on development' you can find the key events, council conclusions and documents of the past years; and under key documents you can find agreements and declarations like the European Code of Conduct, the Paris Declaration, the Cotonou Agreement, etc.
This page gives an overview of the 6 things the EU does to tackle poverty: give aid, use trade, give humanitarian assistance, support sustainable development, promote human rights and promote peace and security.
Click on the 'more' link to find out more about these topics.Here you can find the Annual Reports on the European Union's development
and external assistance policies and their implementation.Here you can find the evaluation reports of development and cooperation projects by year.
This is a service provided by the European Commission to raise awareness and build capacities of staff to integrate the environmental dimension in EC development cooperation and into partner countries' sector policies and programmes. (English version still under construction)
Here you can find all Courier issues.
Available meeting documents of the European Parliament Committee on Development (DEVE).
Go to maps and click on 'world trends' and see where the European Union's Local and Regional authorities (LRA) have their projects.
Summaries of legislation on development. For more up to date information see DG Development and EuropeAid.
Links
Here you can find information on what the UN does to promote economic and social development. You can also search by thematic issues.
Here you can find aid statistics, information on aid effectiveness, reports, etc.
Provides publications on the EU's development policy relating to coherence, complementarity and coherence.
Provides research on policy incoherent cases to bring policy coherence to the attention of policymakers.
This project aims to re-position the debate on monitoring the effectiveness of European Commission aid by seeking to open it up and bring in the views of a wide variety of stakeholders.
Provides information on trade relations between the EU and the ACP-countries.
Provides information on the official negotiations, public consultation, civil society positions relating to the joint Africa-EU strategy and information on the Lisbon summit. Navigate to documents by using the left sidebar for access to key documents.
This is a platform for evaluating the complementarity, coherence and coordination in the EU's development coordination policies and operations. This web site provides the publications.
Provides articles and documents on the homepage and under resources.
This forum conducts research on Europe's international cooperation and development policies and practices. Under issues you can find information on specific subjects.
Provides Human Development Reports and Data.
This database of the Worldbank contains data, research and statistics on different dimensions of development (from health and social development to resources and technology).
The Governance and Social Development Resource Centre (GSDRC) of the University of Birmingham provides information and analysis related to governance, conflict and social development.
This database is a compilation of data about development. The WDI includes more than 900 indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.
On this site you find publications and documents on investment, technology and entreprise development
Provides documents containing references to recent literature (2007-2008) arranged by subject (arms control, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, China and Taiwan, Development issues, energy supply, enlargement, environmental issues, European integration, European law, European Security, external relations of the EU, human rights, international trade, islam, NATO, peacekeeping, Russia, Sub-Sahara Africa, terrorism, UN, US, etc.)
Yearly progress report (or 'lack of progress' report) of the Food and Agricultural Organization on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS).
Site with information on the different programs of the EU towards the ACP countries, like the EDF (country and regional) programs, Cotonou, the EPAs,...
The independent European development portal with information on funding, programs, agreements, ...; articles; events; etc.
It is a network representing 83 European non governmental organisations (NGOs) active in humanitarian aid worldwide. Unlike its members, VOICE is not operational.
Seeking to involve its members in advocacy, lobbying and common positioning, VOICE is the main NGO interlocutor with the European Union on emergency aid, relief, rehabilitation and disaster preparedness.CONCORD is the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development. Its 18 international networks and 25 national associations from the European Member States represent more than 1600 European NGOs vis-à-vis the European Institutions.
DevWire.eu is the media's single entry point to EU development issues.
It brings together relevant information from the European Institutions,
NGOs, think tanks, practitioners, leaders and media from around the
world.
Literature
Arts, K. (2000) Integrating human rights into development cooperation: the case of the Lomé Convention. London: Kluwer law international
Cosgrove-Sacks, C. (Ed.). (2001) Europe, Diplomacy and Development. New Issues in EU Relations with Developing Countries. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Holland, M. (2002) The European Union and the Third World. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Karagiannis, N. (2004) Avoiding Responsibility: The Politics and Discourse of European Development Policy. London: Pluto Press.
Arts, K. & A. K. Dickson (Eds.) (2004), EU Development Cooperation. From Model to Symbol. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Hoebink, Paul, and Stokke Olav, (eds.) (2005) Perspectives on European development co-operation. London: Routledge.
Lister, M. and Carbone, M. (2006). New pathways in international development: gender and civil society in EU policy. Aldershot: Ashgate
Hout, W. (Ed.). (2007) EU Development Policy and Poverty reduction: Enhancing Effectiveness. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Berger, B., & Wissenbach, U. (2007) 'EU–China–Africa trilateral development cooperation: common challenges and new directions', DIE Discussion Papers, 21, 34.
Goerens, C. (2007) 'Sécurité et développement de l’Afrique : une nouvelle approche pour l’UE', EU Institute for Security Studies - Chaillot Papers, 99.
Carbone, M. (2007), The European Union and international development : the politics of foreign aid. London: Routledge.
Faber, G., & Orbie, J. (Eds.) (2007) European Union Trade Politics and Development. 'Everything But Arms' Unravelled. London: Routledge.
Orbie, J., & Versluys, H. (2008) 'The European Union's International Development Policy: Leading and Benevolent?' In J. Orbie (Ed.), Europe's Global Role: External Policies of the European Union. Aldershot: Ashgate, 67-90.
Carbone, M. (2009) Policy Coherence and EU Development Policy. London: Routledge.
Rowan, Christopher (2009) The Politics of Water in Africa. Basingstoke: Tauris Academic Studies.
Holden, P. (2009) In Search of Structural Power: EU Aid Policy as a Global Political Instrument. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Sahle, E. N. (2010) World orders, development and transformation. Basingstone: Palgrave Macmillan.
Söderbaum, F. & Stalgren, P. (Eds.) (2010) The European Union and the global south. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.
Maertens, M, and J.F. Swinnen, (2010) EU Standards in Trade and Development. In: Oskam, A., Meester, G., and H. Silvis (eds) EU Policy for Agriculture, Food and Rural Areas. Wageningen Academic Publisher, The Netherlands, pp 109-115.
ADE. (2010) Thematic Evaluation of the European Commission Support to Justice and Security System Reform. Freiburg: Consortium of particip-ADE-DRN-DIE-ECDPM-ODI.
Nations, United (2010) Improving lives: Results of the partnership between the United Nations and the European Union in 2009. Brussels: United Nations Regional Information Centre in Brussels.
Vennesson, Pascal, and Christian Büger. (2010) Coping with Insecurity in Fragile Situations. European Report on Development 37:1-35.
Sicurelli, D. (2010) The European Union's Africa Policies. Norms, Interests and Impact. Hampshire: Ashgate.
Hout, W. & Carbone, M. (Eds.) (2010) Governance, Development and the South: contesting EU policies. Third World Quarterly. Special issue 1. Vol. 31.
Horký O, Lightfoot S (2012) Special Issue: From Aid Recipients to Aid Donors?: Development Policies of Central and Eastern European States. Perspectives on European Politics and Society 13 (1):1-130
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