At the conference “Prospects for Africa – Europe’s Policies”, that took place in Bonn on the 12th of March African and European non-governmental organisations (NGOs) discussed the EU Africa Strategy. “A common EU Africa strategy can only be credible and sustainable if European and African civil society is sufficiently involved in formulating it,” said Justin Kilcullen of CONCORD, the umbrella association of European NGOs. Agnes Abuom of the World Council of Churches criticised that NGO involvement frequently turned out to be more theory than practice. “Anyone speaking of partnership with equal rights has to listen to African civil society instead of exerting pressure on it with short negotiating deadlines.”
Read the press release from the German Development NGOs platform VENRO.
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