07-01-2015
AGI-IAG; UNDP; ECDPM. 2014. Report First Strategic and Technical Meeting on the Operationalisation of the Africa-EU Roadmap’s 2014-2017 Governance Priority. Pretoria, South Africa, 21-22 November 2014
Key Messages
The Governance Priority should focus on support to the AGA that entails among others political dialogue and effective coordination of implementation of African Union shared values. Particularly, four areas of cooperation could be envisaged:
(i) Support to the implementation of the AGA’s work plan.
(ii) Enhancing synergy and cooperation between peace and security and democratic governance architectures especially on preventive diplomacy, translating early warning to early action, political dialogue and mediation. Focus on this area could be on addressing unconstitutional changes of government.
(iii) Dialogue on issues of common interest (i.e. fighting illicit financial flows).
(iv) Dialogue on governance within the context of the post-2015 OSD Agenda framework.
From 21-22 November 2014, the Africa Governance Institute (AGI) and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) convened a strategic technical meeting on the Africa-EU Roadmap 2014-2017 Governance priority in Pretoria, South Africa. The meeting benefited from the financial support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Regional Bureau. It brought together representatives from civil society organisations, youth, the media, foundations, the AUC, the EU, the RECs, Member States as well as independent experts.
Faten Aggad-Clerx Head of Programme at ECDPM’s Africa’s Change Dynamics co-chaired this event. Faten briefed the Africa group about the post EU-Africa summit discussions and prepare their input into the Joint Annual Forum, specifically on the governance priority.
The objectives of the meeting were as follows:
Discussions were structured around three broad sets of reflection, namely:
(i) Strategising Africa’s cooperation with the EU on Governance;
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