Cotonou Agreement and the European Development Fund

APRODEV has been working on EU-ACP relations since the mid 90's and is a founding member of the CONCORD Cotonou Working Group (CWG). APRODEV is active on the two main areas of work of the group:

• EU aid to the ACP countries and the European Development Fund
• EU-ACP trade and the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements

The Cotonou working group actively supports the participation of European and ACP civil society organisations at the biannual ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assemblies. In that view, the group prepares short briefing papers on issues related to or impacting on ACP-EU relations.

POSITION PAPERS

CONCORD concerns on the upcoming review of the Cotonou Partnership Agreement - April 2009

BRIEFING PAPERS

(last update in November 2009)

• Civil Society and Parliaments
• Second Review of the Cotonou Agreement
• Gender
• Joint EU-Africa Strategy
• New EC External Action instruments
• Governance
• Climate Change
• 10 th European Development Fund
• Intra-ACP funds

What Future for the ACP-EU Cotonou Partnership Agreement? Discussion paper prepared by APRODEV for the CONCORD Cotonou Working Group - October 2008 - (French version)

Background paper on Budget Support - Lessons and reservations from the practice (Sept. 2007)

Programming of the 10th EDF

Briefing Paper ACP-EU relations: Will the EU deliver on its promises? Challenges of the 10th EDF Programming process

Report of the Seminar on the 9th and 10th EDF, Brussels , 27– 28th February 2007

This report is the summary of very rich debates held between different stakeholders coming from Europe and African, Carabbean and Pacific countries. The focus of the seminar was limited to the implementation of the 9th and 10th European development Fund. This version of the report summarizes the main questions, concerns and recommendations made by the participants and working groups

EU-ACP relations: will the EU deliver on its promises: Information on the programming of EC aid for ACP countries (March 2006) - French version (Mars 2006)

This briefing paper has been prepared by the Concord Cotonou Working Group to facilitate the
lobbying and participation of civil society organisations in the European Union and African, Caribbean
and Pacific countries in the forthcoming processes of the 10th EDF Programming.

Programming of the 9th EDF

Table summarizing some aspects of the Country Support Strategies of 40 African Countries (December 2003)

Rapid survey of 40 ACP Country Support Strategies: What about civil society participation? (September 2002)

Table summarising some aspects of the ACP Country Support Strategies (August 2002)

Briefing note on civil society participation in the Cotonou Agreement (Dec 2002)
The paper aims at informing APRODEV agencies and their partners about the political commitments in favour of civil society participation in the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement and at suggesting ways of spreading the information and supporting ACP civil society in grasping these new opportunities.