The final report of the conference is now published. The Conference on ‘Civil Society and the Joint EU-Africa Strategy’ was organised by the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) in cooperation with VENRO, the Association of German development NGOs. It took place on 23-24/4 in Bad Honnef (near Bonn, Germany). As one of the first civil society events on this topic in Europe, this conference brought together around 100 African and European civil society actors and AU and EU officials. The aim of the conference was to formulate clear expectations of a representative sample of key Civil Society Organisations vis-à-vis the EU and AU regarding the contents of the EU-Africa strategy and their role in it. A further aim of the conference was to identify common viewpoints and to develop recommendations to the official negotiators, so that these could be taken into account in the deliberations of the EU-Africa Ministerial Troika Meeting on 15 May in order to adopt a first outline of the Joint Strategy.
Outcomes
- Final conference report – pdf ; doc
- Key conference messages as presented to EU-Africa Troika experts at their meeting 26-28 April – doc
- Key conference messages as included in the final conference report – pdf ; doc
- Key points from the Thematic Working Groups:
- Governance, democracy and human rights – doc
- Key Development Issues – doc
- Trade and Regional Integration – doc
- Peace and Security – doc
Related articles
- Mr. Joseph Ssuuna of the PELUM Association, Zambia: ‘An African participants perspective on the Conference on civil society and Joint EU- Africa Strategy’
- EU News – Issue 3, May 2007 (APRODEV, CIDSE, Caritas Europa): ‘Civil society conferences in Germany and in Ghana’
- Euforic: ‘Perspectives from the closing session’
- Euforic: ‘African CSOs: raising our voices and improving our networks’
- Euforic: ‘Seizing opportunities in a closed circuit’
Conference documents
- The programme – English ; French
- Explanatory note
- Questions for the working groups
- Governance – English ; French
- Key development issues – English ; French
- Trade and regional integration – English ; French
- Peace and security – English ; French
- All position papers — see the page with all contributions by theme or download pdf file with all the contributions (1.38 MB)
- Report of the Internet consultation – doc
- Report from African civil society consultation in Accra, Ghana, 26-28 March – pdf
- Issue papers
- The EU-Africa partnership in historical perspective pdf; doc
- Setting the agenda: towards a joint EU-Africa Strategy pdf; doc
- ECDPM issues paper on governance doc; pdf
- ECDPM issues paper on key development issues doc; pdf
- ECDPM issues paper on trade doc; pdf
- ECDPM issues paper on peace & security doc; pdf)
- List of participants – pdf
