Organised by the European Commission and the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, European Development Days (EDD) is Europe’s premier forum on international affairs and development cooperation.
Nathalie Gentaz n.gentaz@gmail.com
Graduated from the University of the City in London in a Masters of International Journalism, Nathalie Gentaz is now a freelancer and a french presscard holder. She works together with various medias such as France 24, TV5 Monde and the blog Ideas for Development.
The EDDs blog diary
Information, Impressions, Reflexions and Dialogues are the keywords of the blog diary for the 2011 European Development Days.
As a mirror of my findings, the diary is written directly from Brussels to cover the essential news of the EDDs.
Over those days, I propose an exchange of observations and analysis on this event, from media articles published on the blog. You participate by posting your comments, either from the blog, or from our Facebook page available here. We also invite you to follow our tweets!
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Date : January 16, 2012
One of the main objectives of the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan was to establish strategies to move on from aid effectiveness to development effectiveness. The ownership of aid by partner countries is at the heart of development policies and strategies and has become fundamental in development. It must be thoroughly democratized in order to ensure that recipient countries “are on track to achieving sustainable and inclusive growth”, as the European Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs, pointed out.
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Date : January 13, 2012
During the panel on “Aid effectiveness and Accountability”, key development players met to discuss the agreed post-Busan framework for development cooperation, and to present the prospects for change opened up by the Busan partnership agreement for effective cooperation for development, which covers traditional donors, South-South cooperation agencies, the BRIC countries, civil society organisations and donor agencies.
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Date : January 11, 2012
With entire populations rising up in the name of freedom and dignity, the “Arab Spring” has clearly shown the importance of respect for human rights as a prerequisite for development in any country.
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Date : January 9, 2012
On Thursday 15 December, a panel event entitled “Spotlight on decentralisation: strengthening local governance and accountability mechanisms - translating development strategies into results at local level” discussed development issues and their links with decentralisation, to find ways of strengthening local governance and accountability mechanisms. The panellists and their audience discussed potential strategies to achieve satisfactory development results at local scale.
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Date : January 6, 2012
In the spring of 2011, a wind of revolution swept through a number of Mediterranean countries and the Middle East. They were all driven by the political ideals of freedom and dignity and led by an educated and modern youth that is “hooked up” to new technologies. However, the “Arab Spring” countries do not all share the same history and do not all have the same political, social and economic characteristics.
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