Roundtable at AidCo, European Commission, Brussels 12 March

After holding a number of workshops in Europe and one in Kigali, Rwanda, the first in a series of group discussions in partner countries, the consultation process of the WECA project moved on with the organisation of a roundtable at the European Commission’s Directorate-General EuropeAid Cooperation Office (AidCo). Around 8 high-level representatives of Aidco attended, [...]

Roundtable in Kigali, Rwanda, 4 March

Two roundtables were held in Kigali, Rwanda on the 4th of March. The first one consisted of employees from the Rwandan Government and the Donor community and the second of representatives from the local Civil Society. The main questions for discussion included: To what extent are Rwandan development priorities supported by the EC’s aid architecture [...]

Article on Power, Knowledge and Home Grown Solutions

The Forum on the Future of Aid is an online community dedicated to research and opinions about how the international aid system currently works and where it should go next. An article was recently posted on their website treating the global imbalance in deciding what development theories and policies are to be accepted. The author, [...]

Roundtable Madrid 22 February

On Friday, 22 February a roundtable took place in the Casa de Galicia, in Madrid, Spain. The event was organised together with European think tank FRIDE. With 16 participants from development NGOs, the NGO platform CONGDE, central and decentralised governmental donors, including DGPOLDE (General Directorate for the Planning and Evaluation of Development Policies in the [...]

‘D+C’ journal issue on Donor Harmonisation and the EU

D+C (Development and Cooperation), a monthly journal funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, focuses on donor harmonisation and the EU in its February issue. The entire issue is available for free here. Specific articles of interest to EU donor harmonisation include: Editorial: Fundamental values by Hans Dembowksi Profile of a donor [...]