While numerous initiatives to promote good governance, democracy and human rights have been taken in Africa as well as in Europe, drafters of the joint EU-Africa strategy will be confronted by the lack of a common understanding on what ‘governance’ means and entails.
Examples of key questions on this topic are the following. Help set the agenda for the public debate on this issue by sending us key points, initial views and comments. As the consultation goes along we will structure the various ideas and launch more detailed rounds of discussion in a few weeks on the basis of your suggestions:
- What does governance mean and what does it entail? What are the European and African agendas and priorities? To what extent are they common or complementary?
- How can actors from political society like Parliaments, Courts of justice and civil society best encourage good governance? How can the EU best support them?
- How can the idea that the EU itself should respect good governance principles in its support to African partners be put into practice? How can mutual accountability be implemented?
