Cotonou Infokit: The EC Reform and the ACP

Designed for policy makers, practitioners and interested stakeholders in ACP and EU countries, the Cotonou Infokit provides basic information about the new Cotonou Partnership Agreement

Contents

Introducing the Cotonou Agreement

1. This Infokit 
2. The Cotonou Agreement at a glance
3. History and evolution of ACP-EU cooperation
4. Innovations in the Cotonou Agreement
5. Some basic facts
6. The institutions
7. The instruments

Actors in the partnership

8. Opportunities and challenges
9. Participating in programming
10. Obtaining resources
11. Building capacities
12. Organising to participate

Trade and economic partnership

13. From Lomé to Cotonou
14. Regional economic partnership agreements
15. ACP-EU trade negotiations after Cotonou

Private sector development

16. New policy towards private sector
17. Instruments for the private sector

Politics of the partnership

18. Towards a stronger political partnership
19. Political dialogue
20. Essential and fundamental elements
21. Performance based partnership

Managing the partnership

22. The reform of EC external assistance
23. The EC reform and the ACP