ecdpm - Weekly Compass 30 October - 06 November 2018
ECDPM's weekly update on EU - Africa relations and international cooperation
This week is Geneva Peace Week, which will bring together the relevant UN bodies, NGOs and leading academic and other experts involved in the peacebuilding business. There will be plenty of discussions on how best to find peaceful solutions to violent conflicts, building on recent lessons learnt. For the past 1.5 years, we have looked at the factors determining peacebuilding efforts by the EU and several European member states. Today, we are proud to launch our second case study, focusing on Sweden. Pauline Veron and Andrew Sherriff conclude that the country remains a peacebuilding champion, but that the rise of the right-wing populist party and the resurgence of Russia could threaten its work in the future.
You might not know, but do now, that Côte d’Ivoire has become, almost overnight, the world’s largest producer of cashew nuts. We have a paper – in French – on the country’s positive example which underlines the importance of high-level political will and a participatory policy-making process for other governments seeking to achieve similar successes in the agricultural sector.
Nurmara - November 2018
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30. November 2018 - Will Africa ever stop dragging its feet on integration?
29. November 2018 - Africa’s oil producers really need to diversify
28. November 2018 - Africa does not have an East-West dilemma
27. November 2018 - Mobile money may have just reached a big milestone
26. November 2018 - South Sudan must put its oil to good use
23. November 2018 - There will be no “African Silicon Valley”
22. November 2018 - Tanzania is going off the rails
21. November 2018 - With any luck the cryptocurrency frenzy is over
20. November 2018 - Could Nigeria spend ninety billion dollars a year on infrastructure?
19. November 2018 - Chinese aid is growing up
16. November 2018 - The African Union is taking drastic steps to pay its bills
15. November 2018 - Who is going to pay for sustainable development?
14. November 2018 - Nigeria: Just too big to ignore?
13.November 2018 - Where there’s a will, there’s a way
12. November 2018 - Sudan gets a light at the end of the tunnel
09. November 2018 - Mobile money is going global before it goes pan-African
08. November 2018 - Why is nobody talking about ‘de-risking’ in Africa?
07. November 2018 - Madagascar’s election: Much hype but little substance
06. November 2018 - Air Tanzania: Another unsustainable vanity project?
05. November 2018 - Nigeria is in desperate need of change
02. November 2018 - Is the South – South dream over?
01.November 2018 - What does the World Bank know about doing business?
ecdpm - Weekly Compass 23 - 30 October 2018
ECDPM's weekly update on EU - Africa relations and international cooperation
the EU says it is deeply committed to promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls. To achieve this goal in the field of external relations, it has adopted a Gender Action Plan 2016-2020. Halfway through its mandate, the EU has looked at the results so far. And so did we. ECDPM’s Noemi Cascone and Anna Knoll have chosen the EU Trust Fund for Africa as a case study to analyse if and how gender is integrated into the workings of the trust fund. As often is the case, the conclusions are mixed.
The team that has been working on the future of peacebuilding support will be in Washington, DC later this week to present their work at the Alliance for Peacebuilding Conference, the annual gathering of the peacebuilding community.
Nurmara - October 2018
Analysis and News Worth Knowing on Africa from Monday to Friday. Provided by our Partner https://nurmara.com/
The site is updated weekdays at 10:00 am GMT. Depending on news flow stories are occasionally updated during the day.
31. October 2018 - Reality is setting in for the ‘New’ Zimbabwe
30. October 2018 - Could the “Compact with Africa” actually work?
29. October 201 - Africa’s demographic dividend is looking unlikely
26. October 2018 - South Africa is learning the price of the Zuma years
25. October 2018 - Africa does not need its own mobile phones
24. October 2018 - This time lucky for the Grand Inga dream?
23. October 2018 - What is a good oil price?
22. October 2018 - Does Tanzania’s economy need a ‘Bulldozer’?
19. October 2018 - The Russians are coming
18. October 2018 - Africa is losing the competitiveness race
17. October 2018 - What is wrong with African agriculture?
16. October 2018 - Africa has wasted a good crisis
15. October 2018 - Ghana’s century bond is just a bad idea
12. October 2018 - All talk and no action on Africa’s youth?
ecdpm - Weekly Compass 16 - 23 October 2018
ECDPM's weekly update on EU - Africa relations and international cooperation
It’s a very busy week here in Brussels. On the same day European leaders are meeting to discuss – and hopefully agree on – how the UK will exit the Union, Bill Gates is in town to convince them to stop navel-gazing and look right next door at the African continent.
ecdpm - Weekly Compass 09 - 16 October 2018
Remember when we talked about indigenous vegetables some time ago? To explain why they are more important than you might think, we have produced a short documentary, shot during our last visit to Kenya. Francis, a small-scale farmer we interviewed, gave us three compelling reasons why he decided to cultivate indigenous vegetables: food security, nutritional value and the preservation of important traditions. But why is it still so difficult then to have this type of food on the dinner table of most Kenyans?
Just south of Kenya, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) starts. Also this regional economic community has compelling reasons to develop common strategies to help its industrialisation processes. Nonetheless, some member states have developed national policies at the expense of their SADC neighbours. Bruce Byiers uses his political economy lens to get a better picture.
And finally, do not forget to register and attend our Brexit seminar this Thursday if you happen to pass by or live in Dublin. Details below.
Crisis Group - Weekly update 28 September - 05 October 2018
