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Governance in the 10th EDF for ACP countries

This article explores the importance of governance in the 10th EDF for ACP countries and how it contributes to poverty reduction and sustainable development. It highlights the ACP/EU partnership approach to governance, the governance incentive tranche, and the role of dialogue and incentives in consolidating democratic governance processes. The article also discusses the methodology for assessing governance action plans and the monitoring process.

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Governance in the 10th EDF for ACP countries

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  1. Governance in the 10th EDF for ACP countries The governance incentive tranche

  2. Governance and development • Effective and efficient support to democratic governance processes will directly contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development objectives • ACP/EU partnership approach to governance based on dialogue, incentives for reform and countries’ ownership over reforms

  3. The framework • Governance in the Cotonou agreement • Issue for political dialogue • Area for cooperation • Integrated in essential / fundamental elements • Dialogue and incentives to • Consolidate democratic governance processes • Support partner country’s programmes • Encourage ACP countries to engage in reforms • “Additional” amount reserved in an “incentive tranche” for countries that decide to put forward a Governance Action Plan

  4. Incentive tranche: part of 10th EDF • 20% of EDF funds for the incentive tranche to top up EDF initial allocations • Tranche intended to encourage political will to reform expressed in the Governance Plan, not to rank countries • Allocation submitted to a monitoring process

  5. Methodology/1 • Plans of action designed by Governments • Assessed on three criteria • Relevance – effective link with identified weaknesses • Ambition – political will (external sign: extent to which weaknesses are addressed) • Credibility – capacity to undertake reforms (external sign: plan supported by a set of result-oriented indicators and a realistic timetable)

  6. Methodology/2 • Situations of post-crisis / fragility • taken into consideration in the assessment • APRM • Specific extra allocation of 5% for plans presented by countries that have finalised APRM • Consistent with EU support to the APRM process

  7. Governance Action Plans: monitoring • Monitoring of the implementation of the Plan part of the regular political dialogue • Overall performance in the implementation taken into consideration for the revision of the overall country allocation, not of the incentive tranche alone • Role for civil society in the monitoring mechanisms

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