A Comprehensive EU Strategy for Africa - Development, Humanitarian Aid and Climate Change
The new EU Strategy for Africa attempts to reflect the continent’s growing relevance within a partnership rather than through a donor-recipient framework. However, this leads to a prioritisation of the formal, productive and technology sectors as well as climate mitigation at the expense of agriculture, informal sector, human development and climate adaptation. With such skewed priorities, this Strategy is ill-adapted for the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. Institutionally, political will is needed to ensure that the continent-to-continent approach is not hampered by parallel, contradictory and fragmenting forces within the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) and the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) governance frameworks. Financially, mutual accountability must be strengthened by joint funding of joint actions. An inclusive institutional mechanism is also needed to promote political and civil society participation as well as policy coherence for sustainable development beyond migration and climate. More generally, the Strategy advances a government-to-government type of partnership at the expense of a more people-centred approach that is more in line with the ‘principled pragmatism’ of the EU.
Briefing
Auteur externe
Ondřej HORKÝ-HLUCHÁŇ
À propos de ce document
Type de publication
Mot-clé
- aide au développement
- aide humanitaire
- changement climatique
- construction européenne
- détérioration de l'environnement
- développement durable
- ENVIRONNEMENT
- organisations extra-européennes
- ORGANISATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- politique de coopération
- politique de l'environnement
- politique en matière de changement climatique
- politique européenne de voisinage
- politique internationale
- politique économique
- politique étrangère et de sécurité commune
- relation multilatérale
- RELATIONS INTERNATIONALES
- société civile
- stratégie de l’UE
- Union africaine
- UNION EUROPÉENNE
- VIE POLITIQUE
- vie politique et sécurité publique
- ÉCONOMIE