European Union -Africa Strategy

EU-Africa Strategy The EU-Africa Strategy is an initiative of the Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid dating back to the year 2005. The document adopted by the European Council on 15/16 December is meant to present a framework for the development programmes of the Commission and the 25 member states concerning Africa over the next ten years. The distinctive feature of this strategy is that it treats the African continent as a single unity and attempts to include the existing regional agreements Cotonou and MEDA. On 22/23 June 2006 the Austrian EU-Platform together with its member organisations and CONCORD hosted an INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE IMPACTS OF THE EU-AFRICA STRATEGY. SOUND OF AFRICA NEWS / 7 June 2006: Eurostep, togehter with SNV and EEPA has launched a website in order to facilitate Civil Society participation in the negotiations on the programming of European Community aid to ACP countires under the 10th European Development Fund (EDF): http://www.acp-programming.eu/ Official Papers on the EU-Africa Strategy: The EU and Africa: Towards a Strategic Partnership - adopted by Europ. Council (15/16 Dec 2005) Communiquée of the EU-Africa Ministerial meeting in Bamako, Mali (2 Dec 2005) Contribution from Javier Solana (21 Nov 2005) Conclusions from the Council (GAERC) (21 Nov 2005) Communication from EU Commission on EU Strategy for Africa: Towards a Euro-African pact to accelerate Africa-s development (12 Oct 2005) European Parliament: Report on a development strategy for Africa (2005/2142(INI)) Responses on the EU-Africa Strategy from European & African NGOs: Response to the Communication of the European Commission By CONCORD (Oct 2005) Analysis and response to the EU-Africa Strategy By ECPDM (Feb 2006) A Feminist Assessment Speech from Mary Wandia, Action Aid International at the WIDE Conference on the EU-Africa Strategy (Mar 2006) Background Paper on political dialogue By Pascal Richard, NIZA (Dutch Platform) (Mar 2006) You will find more information in English on the websites of our partners at CONCORD (European NGO confederation for relief and development) and BOND (British National Platform), or in German on our German project-website www.reichearmewelt.at Thanks to our partners at CONCORD and BOND!