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WHAT DOES ENLARGEMENT MEAN FOR EU DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE?

WHAT DOES ENLARGEMENT MEAN FOR EU DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE?. Ivo Gombala Mission of the Czech Republic to the EC. Overview. EU development policy and the role of Accession countries (ACs) Common concerns and challenges for ACs Case study of the Czech Republic Instruments available for ACs

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WHAT DOES ENLARGEMENT MEAN FOR EU DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE?

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  1. WHAT DOES ENLARGEMENT MEAN FOR EU DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE? Ivo Gombala Mission of the Czech Republic to the EC

  2. Overview • EU development policy and the role of Accession countries (ACs) • Common concerns and challenges for ACs • Case study of the Czech Republic • Instruments available for ACs • Recommendations

  3. EU Development Policy and ACs • EU Development Policy has been underestimated in Accession negotiations • Development Cooperation has had neither priority in the Pre-accession strategies of ACs nor in PHARE or in other Pre-accession programmes • Accession Treaty – primary and secondary legislation (acquis communautaire) • Soft law (Statement by the Council and the Commission on the European Community´s Development Policy, Food Aid, Global Fund, untying of aid etc.) • Cotonu Agreement (partnership, ownership, stategy papers) • Development Policy related aspects (trade – EPAs, commodity agreements, fisheries etc.; migration; finances – HIPC etc.) • Geographic differences concerning EU and ACs´ Development Policies (AC have no strong historical ties with many recipient countries of EU´s development assistance in Africa, Latin America and Asia and concentrate more on neighbouring countries - Balkans and the former Soviet Union) Source: Trialog Policy Paper „ Development co-operation in the Context of EU Enlargement“ and Final Report „The consequences of enlargemnt for development policy“

  4. Concerns and challenges Policy making: • Projects oriented development policy v. programmes based development policy for priority countries and projects towards non-priority countries • Ad hoc v. strategic approaches (PRSPs, CSPs, RSPs, thematic issues – health, education etc.) • weak v. stronger policy frameworks and institutional capacity building • Introduction of broad-based process of policy formulation including all stakeholders (NGOs, civil society, academics, private sector etc.) • Wide range of recipient countries v. priority countries and other targeted countries • Wide scale of sectoral priorities v. short list of concrete sectoral priorities with sectoral programmes

  5. Concerns and challenges Implementation: • „supply driven“ v. „demand driven“ approaches • Grants and projects v. procurements and programming • Existence of co-financing budget line for NGOs • Tying v. untying • Partnership with civil society incl. NGOs • Partnership with private sector • Enhancement of implementation capacity Financing: • New instruments – budget support, co-financing etc. • Finances outside EU (UNDP, CIDA) for capacity and institutional building will stop upon accession • Enhancement of ODA (EU budget, EDF) Others: • Public awareness • Co-operation with universities and schools in development education

  6. Czech Republic´s case study • Principles for Providing Foreign Aid (1995) • Concept of the Czech Republic Foreign Aid Program for the 2002-2007 Period (2002) • Czech NGDOs Platform (since 2002) • CIDA (ODACE) and UNDP projects – capacity and institutional building and public awareness • Development Center (1999) – established as UNDP project • 12-14% of bilateral assistance implemented through NGOs • Dotation program for NGOs: capacity building, development education, public awareness, partnership in development co-operation • Public awareness: general public, state administration, development education (focus on secondary grammer schools), Summer development school • Co-financing instrument is under preparation • Education: University of Economics in Prague and Palackého University in Olomouc • Key priority countries and sectors in bilateral co-operation identified (programs and strategy documents still needed) • Priorities within multilateral and EU development co-operation to be identified • Evalution missions in 2003 (Moldova, Ethiopia,Zambia, Rumania, Ukraine) and in 2004 (Vietnam)

  7. Instruments available for Accession Countries Policy making and implementation: • Support of Current Member States and the Commission (Task Force on capacity building, bilateral relations) • CONCORD • Thematic Working Groups of Experts (e.g. EU Member States experts´meeting on health, AIDS and population) • Platforms created in some Accession Countries Financing: • Co-financing budget line for NGOs • Geographical programs (MEDA, ALA, TACIS ..) • Thematic budget lines (gender, education, health, …) • Partnerships with NGOs from other EU Member States

  8. Recommendations • Formulation and adoption of national development policies in all ACs • Active participation of representatives from all Accession Countries in all relevant foras (if feasible – limited staff) • Transfer of know-how in fund raising, public awareness and PR activities • Joint development co-operation projects • Training activities, study visits, interships etc.

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