http://europafrica.net/2007/02/15/great-start-of-the-joint-eu-africa-public-debate/ Towards a Joint EU-Africa Strategy Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:43:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://europafrica.net/2007/02/15/great-start-of-the-joint-eu-africa-public-debate/#comment-144 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:00:11 +0000 http://europafrica.org/2007/02/14/great-start-of-the-joint-eu-africa-public-debate/#comment-144 My name is Shareef a development consultant from Mozambique. Honestly speaking, this strategy has failed in the sense that it was developed in Europe and intended for Africa. If you want to know what is good for Africa, ask Africans living in Africa and avoid doing things for us, we know better our problems and perhaps solutions than you think you do. one more piece of advice to EU is that start supporting civil society organizations in order for them to be actively participative in the consultation processes, living everything to the national government won’t give you a more balanced contribution to whatever strategies you would like to come with.

]]> http://europafrica.net/2007/02/15/great-start-of-the-joint-eu-africa-public-debate/#comment-91 Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:42:31 +0000 http://europafrica.org/2007/02/14/great-start-of-the-joint-eu-africa-public-debate/#comment-91 My name is Magdalena Wolf, I´m a student in political sciences in Halle, Germany, and i would like to express my congratulations to this one-of-a-kind public project. I think it is important to create an athmosphere of lateral transfer of ideas and wishes in order to receive conclusions authorized by every part of the project! And it is also important for european actors to realize and accept that european customs and way of thinking not automatically means the best answer for african problems. Or, in other words, that many problems of Africa are “homegrown” or home made in Europe. I´m really looking forward to the development of this project!!

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