Representatives of Civil Society organisations and social movements met in Lusaka, Zambia on the occasion of the SADC Heads of State Summit in mid-August. They express concern over the current process, content and context of the Joint Africa-EU strategy. Points made include on the Strategy’s relationship between its focus on achievement of MDGs and the pursuit of concluding neo-liberal Economic Partnership Agreements by December 2007. Participants recommended that the strategy must go beyond these frameworks and give clear timelines and indicators of progress. Recommendations were also given on debt-cancellation, increased aid-levels and progress on agriculture, food-security and environment.
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