This paper examines the EU's "Team Europe" initiative, launched in April 2020 as a response to COVID-19, analyzing its impact on development cooperation. It evaluates changes in EU initiatives, focusing on visibility, effectiveness, ownership, and integration, concluding that Team Europe enhances EU visibility and prioritizes European ownership over that of developing countries.
This paper analyses the policies and priorities of the governments of Cambodia and Malawi with respect to capacity development support (CDS) and investigates both the scope and available means to strengthen the effectiveness of this area of support.
In 2016 the EU and the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States intensified preparations for the upcoming negotiations on the arrangement for their relations after the Cotonou Agreement expires in 2020. This paper assesses the legal and political implications of the upcoming post-Cotonou negotiations on the Economic Partnership Agreements.
This paper assesses how result-based aid interventions relate to capacity development support on both a conceptual and practical level, and concludes that irrespective of the approach chosen the effectiveness hinges on adequate investment in design and space for adaptation to ongoing changes.
This paper analyses to what extent the aid and development effectiveness agenda has been applied to the area of capacity development support, with a focus on the use of partner country systems. It concludes that significant potential remains for improving this key area of development cooperation.