A new report has been published entitled New Challenges, New Beginnings: Next steps in European development cooperation, the result of a collaboration by 25 researchers from four major European think-tanks on international development: The Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), the Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE), and The European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM).

The report examines the EU's progress in furthering the Millennium Development Goals, and how the goals must be rethought beyond 2015, and stresses the importance of Policy Coherence for Development. The authors examine the specific policy areas of trade, state/peace-building, climate change, migration, finance, and the private sector, and sets out how EU policy could function more effectively in these areas.

The report argues the case for five priorities in European development cooperation:

• New EU leadership in thinking about how development cooperation can help deal with shared global problems.
• EU states to meet their aid promises and improve the targeting and effectiveness of aid spending.
• New efforts to ensure coherence between development and other policies.
• Providing new life to development partnerships.
• Improved cooperation between Member States, so that the EU really does work as one.

Read the full report at: www.pagegangster.com/p/yrrY0

Source:

• Overseas Development Institute (ODI)