CONCORD (the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development) have published a paper on ‘The challenges of the renewed EU-Africa Partnership’. The paper states that building the trust necessary for an effective partnership requires time and effort and that the Lisbon Summit should “be seen as a milestone in a longer term process”. The paper discusses what is needed to build a renewed partnership as well as how it can be truly people centred. It further lists pre-conditions that are necessary for meaningful civil society engagement in the monitoring and implemenation of the strategy, including to build on systems that are already in place and work and that effective civil society engagement requires sufficient resources.
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