16-18 April 2019. Marrakech, Morocco The Fifth (2019) session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD 5).
Presentation by Linus Mofor - Senior Environmental Affairs Officer (Energy, Infrastructure and Climate Change), ECA
Dear friends,
Good day! We wish you to find yourself, in a good time, fit and full of stamina. So, we need your help. Business Innovation Research Development (BIRD) organization is recruiting talented persons to implement the decade for Action 2030 and accelerating the United Nations Sustainable Development (SDG).
If you are able to remove sleeves and strive for the development, and you want to join a dynamic organization, which is active and willing to transform our world. At the moment, we have a double presence on the international scene. We are a United Nations international player, and we can offer you an opportunity to participate in a new world: The World We Want (WWW). The global goals were a United Nations General Assembly member’s strategy for the sustainability development with the prosperity for all, wellbeing, healthy life, peace and security. In 2020, covid 19 hit us harder and pushed us to our limits. It is time to hit back and pushed stronger to redirect towards the challenges of the 21st century and keep orientated on the aim of the Post 2015 Sustainable Development goals, with (1) the poverty reduction, (2) food security, (3) wellbeing, (4) education, (5) gender, (6) water and sanitation, (7) energy for all, (8) economic growth, (9) infrastructure investment, (10) equity, (11) smart cities, (12) production and consumption, (13) climate action, (14) life on land, (15) life under oceans and seas, (16) social justice and (17) cooperation.
You can contact us if you like to join us at: BIRD CEO at gsradjou@outlook.com, with your identification and little of yourself on a CV or a letter. So, we can study your offer to participate in the United Nations implementation or prototyping the 17 sustainable development goals and 169 targets and many more indicators of development as well as the poverty reduction by 2030.
Your participation is valuable. You can contribute to the achievement of these global goals by 2030.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
BIRD CEO
16-18 April 2019. Marrakech, Morocco The Fifth (2019) session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD 5).
Presentation by Linus Mofor - Senior Environmental Affairs Officer (Energy, Infrastructure and Climate Change), ECA
Dear friends,
Good day! We wish you to find yourself, in a good time, fit and full of stamina. So, we need your help. Business Innovation Research Development (BIRD) organization is recruiting talented persons to implement the decade for Action 2030 and accelerating the United Nations Sustainable Development (SDG).
If you are able to remove sleeves and strive for the development, and you want to join a dynamic organization, which is active and willing to transform our world. At the moment, we have a double presence on the international scene. We are a United Nations international player, and we can offer you an opportunity to participate in a new world: The World We Want (WWW). The global goals were a United Nations General Assembly member’s strategy for the sustainability development with the prosperity for all, wellbeing, healthy life, peace and security. In 2020, covid 19 hit us harder and pushed us to our limits. It is time to hit back and pushed stronger to redirect towards the challenges of the 21st century and keep orientated on the aim of the Post 2015 Sustainable Development goals, with (1) the poverty reduction, (2) food security, (3) wellbeing, (4) education, (5) gender, (6) water and sanitation, (7) energy for all, (8) economic growth, (9) infrastructure investment, (10) equity, (11) smart cities, (12) production and consumption, (13) climate action, (14) life on land, (15) life under oceans and seas, (16) social justice and (17) cooperation.
You can contact us if you like to join us at: BIRD CEO at gsradjou@outlook.com, with your identification and little of yourself on a CV or a letter. So, we can study your offer to participate in the United Nations implementation or prototyping the 17 sustainable development goals and 169 targets and many more indicators of development as well as the poverty reduction by 2030.
Your participation is valuable. You can contribute to the achievement of these global goals by 2030.
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
BIRD CEO
Hi, Happy New Year 2022!
The presentation is about health, wealth, wellbeing, prosperity, protecting the earth's planet, peace, and security. It is not so easy to wish you a happy new year 2022, as we have seen that 2020, 2021 were difficult years. So, before wishing you all a Happy New Year 2022. I started to browse the landscape of the needed ingredients in 2022, so I can really wish you all a Happy New Year 2022, that is almost sincere, because the uncertainties are so high nowadays, and we need to prepare for the next crisis. Happy New Year 2022
A cooperative and multidisciplinary approach to a Mediterranean in transitionCNR-ISMed
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“A cooperative and multidisciplinary approach to a Mediterranean in transition”
Climate change, socio-economic crises and food (in) security: a Mediterranean in Transition. Conference in memory of Eugenia Ferragina
2018, 17th September
Italian Navy Officer’s Club, Naples Via Cesario Console, 3 bis Naples (Italy)
Institute for Studies on Mediterranean Societies, National Council of Research
www.issm.cnr.it/en/
Improving the Management of Major Risks in Morocco - OECD Key FindingsOECD Governance
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Hello, friends,
It is a second time, we are wishing you a happy new year in 2022. This time it is the tiger happy new year 2022. However, to understand our present world and with the wish to build back better in 2022, we need both happy new years 2022. Our world is global and it is a fusion between the occident and the orient. This happy new year is presented through the viewpoint of different logical thinking: Descartes analysis, Pascal analysis, resiliency principle, and the Asian Ying Yang. We are building a 2022 year with the global and supervisory thinking of the west, and Asia seeing itself, inside the world landscape. It is the world we want and transforming our world with the different stakeholders: Civil Society, Multinationals, UN staffs, states individuals, households..Etc. It is helping to get unity and solidarity. All the ingredients are in the Microsoft powerpoints. Find out inside the Happy New Year 2022 we want which is the tiger year, to protect ourselves, and also, to protect our nature, for peace security, prosperity for all, wellbeing, and healthy life.
Happy New Year 2022 with the tiger.
After Charlie and Garissa, addressing the external dimension of global terror...Philippe Darmuzey
Keynote speech at University of Pretoria, Governance Innovation week, South Africa.
After the dramatic events of "Charlie" in Europe and Garissa in Kenya, and in the face of the ongoing mediterranean migrant crisis and the continued spread of world terrorism, a new common Africa-Europe impetus is required to address global challenges. The address point to the need for and feasibility of, An Africa-Europe International Treaty on Peace, Security & Development.
AmCham annual report 2012-2013
AmCham Tunisia has gained visibility in the MENA region since it took over the AmCham MENA Council Chairmanship in July 2011. In this capacity, AmCham Tunisia has been invited either to co-organize or actively participate in all regional meetings, the most important ones being: the US Secretary’s Global Business Conference (Washington, DC. February 21-22, 2012), the 9th edition of the G8 BMENA Forum for the Future (Tunis, 11-13 December, 2012), the 2013 Harvard Arab Alumni Association Conference under the theme “The Arab World: From Revolution to Transformation” (Tunis, 21 March, 2013), and the Conference “MENA Investment and Entrepreneurship: Change Brings Opportunity » (Washington, D.C., 11 October, 2013).
Conflict and the Post 2015 Development Agenda South AfricaDr Lendy Spires
South Africa has an important and respected voice in global policy debates. This derives from its political identity, its economic attributes, and its role in regional and international diplomacy. South Africa’s unique political experience has imbued it with a particular moral legitimacy. Furthermore, through its active inter-national role since 1994, it is regarded as a key player in the emergent African order, and a key African actor in the international system.
It has sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economy (accounting for over a third of its GDP and some 40 per cent of exports), and it is the dominant economy in the southern African region. The shape and content of the new framework for international development after 2015 will be important for future growth and prosperity in Africa. The global process to debate what issues should feature in this framework – and how they can be incorporated – is well underway, with wide-ranging consultations having already taken place, and continuing up until the negotiations phase of the process begins in September 2014.
The current framework, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), has been influential in defining international development priorities, but it does not incorporate issues of peace and stability. The significance of this omission is evidenced by the fact that only about 20 per cent of the countries that the World Bank categorises as ‘fragile or conflict-affected’ are on track to meet the basic poverty target. The conclusion is clear: if the post-2015 framework is to promote effective development in conflict-affected states, it must address the challenges of violence and insecurity.
Given South Africa’s role on the continent and internationally, it will be an influential actor in defining the shape and content of the post-2015 process – including if and how to include peace and stability in the new framework. In order to inform and catalyse debate about these issues within the South African policy community, four leading South African organisations and Saferworld have compiled this set of short papers on how these issues affect South Africa and the wider continent.
The papers draw on the South African organisations’ extensive experience of researching and responding to the various identified challenges.
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Economic Integration and Regional Trade in West Africa, 2010 – 2018ijtsrd
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http://www.unescap.org/publications/role-asia-and-pacific-global-governance-and-multilateralism
The Role of Asia and The Pacific in Global Governance and Multilateralism
REPORT14 MAY 2018
Contact-Trade, Investment and Innovation Division
Telephone: +66 2 288-1446
Email: escap-tiid@un.org
Hi, Happy New Year 2022!
The presentation is about health, wealth, wellbeing, prosperity, protecting the earth's planet, peace, and security. It is not so easy to wish you a happy new year 2022, as we have seen that 2020, 2021 were difficult years. So, before wishing you all a Happy New Year 2022. I started to browse the landscape of the needed ingredients in 2022, so I can really wish you all a Happy New Year 2022, that is almost sincere, because the uncertainties are so high nowadays, and we need to prepare for the next crisis. Happy New Year 2022
A cooperative and multidisciplinary approach to a Mediterranean in transitionCNR-ISMed
Blanca Moreno-Dodson Manager of the Center for Mediterranean Integration, World Bank
“A cooperative and multidisciplinary approach to a Mediterranean in transition”
Climate change, socio-economic crises and food (in) security: a Mediterranean in Transition. Conference in memory of Eugenia Ferragina
2018, 17th September
Italian Navy Officer’s Club, Naples Via Cesario Console, 3 bis Naples (Italy)
Institute for Studies on Mediterranean Societies, National Council of Research
www.issm.cnr.it/en/
Improving the Management of Major Risks in Morocco - OECD Key FindingsOECD Governance
The review provides an objective assessment of recognised risk management policies by international experts. The study identifies both the successes and strengths of the existing system, and also the challenges to overcome in order to improve Morocco's resilience in coping with major risks. For more information on the launch of this review, see http://www.oecd.org/governance/risk/launch-event-improving-the-management-of-major-risks-in-morocco.htm
Hello, friends,
It is a second time, we are wishing you a happy new year in 2022. This time it is the tiger happy new year 2022. However, to understand our present world and with the wish to build back better in 2022, we need both happy new years 2022. Our world is global and it is a fusion between the occident and the orient. This happy new year is presented through the viewpoint of different logical thinking: Descartes analysis, Pascal analysis, resiliency principle, and the Asian Ying Yang. We are building a 2022 year with the global and supervisory thinking of the west, and Asia seeing itself, inside the world landscape. It is the world we want and transforming our world with the different stakeholders: Civil Society, Multinationals, UN staffs, states individuals, households..Etc. It is helping to get unity and solidarity. All the ingredients are in the Microsoft powerpoints. Find out inside the Happy New Year 2022 we want which is the tiger year, to protect ourselves, and also, to protect our nature, for peace security, prosperity for all, wellbeing, and healthy life.
Happy New Year 2022 with the tiger.
After Charlie and Garissa, addressing the external dimension of global terror...Philippe Darmuzey
Keynote speech at University of Pretoria, Governance Innovation week, South Africa.
After the dramatic events of "Charlie" in Europe and Garissa in Kenya, and in the face of the ongoing mediterranean migrant crisis and the continued spread of world terrorism, a new common Africa-Europe impetus is required to address global challenges. The address point to the need for and feasibility of, An Africa-Europe International Treaty on Peace, Security & Development.
AmCham annual report 2012-2013
AmCham Tunisia has gained visibility in the MENA region since it took over the AmCham MENA Council Chairmanship in July 2011. In this capacity, AmCham Tunisia has been invited either to co-organize or actively participate in all regional meetings, the most important ones being: the US Secretary’s Global Business Conference (Washington, DC. February 21-22, 2012), the 9th edition of the G8 BMENA Forum for the Future (Tunis, 11-13 December, 2012), the 2013 Harvard Arab Alumni Association Conference under the theme “The Arab World: From Revolution to Transformation” (Tunis, 21 March, 2013), and the Conference “MENA Investment and Entrepreneurship: Change Brings Opportunity » (Washington, D.C., 11 October, 2013).
Conflict and the Post 2015 Development Agenda South AfricaDr Lendy Spires
South Africa has an important and respected voice in global policy debates. This derives from its political identity, its economic attributes, and its role in regional and international diplomacy. South Africa’s unique political experience has imbued it with a particular moral legitimacy. Furthermore, through its active inter-national role since 1994, it is regarded as a key player in the emergent African order, and a key African actor in the international system.
It has sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economy (accounting for over a third of its GDP and some 40 per cent of exports), and it is the dominant economy in the southern African region. The shape and content of the new framework for international development after 2015 will be important for future growth and prosperity in Africa. The global process to debate what issues should feature in this framework – and how they can be incorporated – is well underway, with wide-ranging consultations having already taken place, and continuing up until the negotiations phase of the process begins in September 2014.
The current framework, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), has been influential in defining international development priorities, but it does not incorporate issues of peace and stability. The significance of this omission is evidenced by the fact that only about 20 per cent of the countries that the World Bank categorises as ‘fragile or conflict-affected’ are on track to meet the basic poverty target. The conclusion is clear: if the post-2015 framework is to promote effective development in conflict-affected states, it must address the challenges of violence and insecurity.
Given South Africa’s role on the continent and internationally, it will be an influential actor in defining the shape and content of the post-2015 process – including if and how to include peace and stability in the new framework. In order to inform and catalyse debate about these issues within the South African policy community, four leading South African organisations and Saferworld have compiled this set of short papers on how these issues affect South Africa and the wider continent.
The papers draw on the South African organisations’ extensive experience of researching and responding to the various identified challenges.
OECD Event Agenda: Risk Governance and Resilient Cities, at the UN World Conf...OECD Governance
Agenda for the OECD event on "Risk Governance and Resilient Cities", at the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Sendai, Japan, 16 March 2015. For further information see www.oecd.org/gov/risk/un-world-conference-on-disaster-risk-reduction-2015.htm
Economic Integration and Regional Trade in West Africa, 2010 – 2018ijtsrd
The paper on Economic Integration and Regional Trade in West Africa sought primarily to examine the circumstances surrounding the implementation of economic integration strategy in West Africa. This was necessary because there has been no recorded trade growth and development across the sub region from the time of signing of economic integration treaty to date. The study was an chore d on secondary sources of data collections. Content analysis was employed in analyzing the data collected. The theoretical framework employed was the Absolute Advantage theory propounded by Adam Smith in his 1776 book entitled “The Wealth of Nations” in which he countered mercantilist ideas on trade. The theory seeks to show how countries can gain from trade by specialising in producing and exporting the goods that they can produce more efficiently than other countries.It was found that the strategy still existed in form till today as impediments to trade still loomed and are yet to be eradicated. The study recommended a clear commitment of leadership towards unrestricted movement, functional infrastructure and domination fear among member countries. It was concluded that member countries should not be complacent but thrive on cooperating and embracing economic integration strategy as a platform to common economic and trade liberalisation, growth and development in West Africa. Neebani, Emmanuel Nubari Bariyoneto "Economic Integration and Regional Trade in West Africa, 2010 – 2018" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-5 | Issue-1 , December 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd35888.pdf Paper URL : https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/35888/economic-integration-and-regional-trade-in-west-africa-2010-– -2018/neebani-emmanuel-nubari-bariyoneto
The Role of Asia and The Pacific in Global Governance and MultilateralismMYO AUNG Myanmar
http://www.unescap.org/publications/role-asia-and-pacific-global-governance-and-multilateralism
The Role of Asia and The Pacific in Global Governance and Multilateralism
REPORT14 MAY 2018
Contact-Trade, Investment and Innovation Division
Telephone: +66 2 288-1446
Email: escap-tiid@un.org
Africa Discussion Group
Social Democratic Party of Germany
1 February 2013, Berlin
Geert Laporte made a presentation on the current situation of EU-African Union cooperation.
This paper i wrote as an assignment under the Thabo Mbeki Leadership Institute programme (UNISA). The paper addresses the following question: Does the linear integration model of regional integration, based on the historical experience of the European Union (EU), provides the best overall framework for advancing regional integration in Africa. Please refer to current regional integration arrangements in Africa to motivate your argument: The linear integration model of regional integration, based on the historical experience of the European Union (EU), provides the best overall framework for advancing regional integration in Africa. Reference was made to current regional integration arrangements in Africa to motivate your argument.
African perspectives on Africa-Europe relations
Geneva Centre for Security Policy, European Training Course in Security Policy
Dr. Damien Helly
Policy Officer, ECDPM
19 March 2014
Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the 5th Joint
Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of
Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African
Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
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Education in North Africa- Hammamet Conference Jamaity
The situation in each country of North Africa is
unique, but nonetheless has much in common
with its neighbours. What is clear, looking at
Great Britain and its own educational reforms of
recent decades, is that we too have much in
common with North Africa – more, perhaps
than we realize, disguised by differences of
history, development and wealth. The
massification of Higher Education, the relentless
quest for quality with limited means, the
development of sophisticated techniques for
orientating students to careers and the job
market, life-long learning, the teaching of
reading skills, the design of innovative
inspection regimes, the teaching of English to
non-native speakers – all these are potential
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24-25 July 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
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(with thanks to UN-OCHA and Cell for Coordination and Liaison (CCL) for sharing slides)
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Session 3:10 – SDG Towards Coherence
From PCD to PCSD
James Mackie PhD
Head of Learning & Quality Support, ECDPM
Visiting Professor, IRD Dept, College of Europe
University of Amsterdam, 29 June 2016
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Too nice to fail? EU external action towards Africa
1. Damien Helly, Deputy Head of Programme,
EU External Action, ECDPM
Too nice to fail? EU
external action towards
Africa
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Vienna,
7 September 2016
2. 1. A few words about ECDPM
2. A simple framework to approach a complex topic
3. 2008-2014. Continental drift or widening cracks?
4. 2014-2016: When the crises strike
5. Scenarios for Africa-Europe relations
Content
ECDPM Page 2
3. 1. Think and do tank working on Europe Africa
relations and European development policies
2. Funded by 9 European governments
3. Around 60 staff
4. HQ in Maastricht & office in Brussels
5. Regularly on mission in Africa
1. A few words about ECDPM
ECDPM Page 3
4. 1. Key factors to look at in Africa-Europe relations
(development policy-making covered under these
factors):
a. Economy
b. Governance & politics
c. Security
d. Multilateralism
2. Critical junctures
a. Africa-EU summits
b. Significant events affecting the 4 key factors above
(conflict, elections, international conference)
2. A simple framework to approach a
complex topic
ECDPM Page 4
5. Confidence and commitments to (re)build
1. Economy
2. Governance & politics
3. Security
4. Multilateralism
3. 2008-2014: Continental drift of
widening cracks?
ECDPM Page 5
6. • Trade trends show decrease of Europe.
• FDI concentrated in 12 countries
• EPAs didn't really deliver
• Chinese investments competition
• Growth driven by extractives (Chinese growth) –
high prices of raw materials
• food/agricultural products (wheat) creates South-
South tensions
• Inclusive growth not seen jointly as priority
• some kind of global opening of African economies
3. 2008-2014: Continental drift of
widening cracks? Economy
ECDPM Page 6
7. • Increased EU interventionism until Chad and then
African solutions to African problem
• Common push on APSA for different reasons
• Germany string supporter
• But failure of prevention: Sudan , but also and
foremost Arab Spring.
• And the Sahel: terrorism & organised crime.
• SSR-: long lasting efforts in DRC but competition and
no collective political weight.
3. 2008-2014: Continental drift of
widening cracks? Security
ECDPM Page 7
8. • Africans became more self-confident.
• Regional hegemons as donor darlings raised
questions: Ethiopia, Nigeria, and then Angola.
• Weakening of pan-africanism (including in South
Africa)
• Politics in the relation still dominated by large former
colonial powers: West Africa, Zimbabwe, Sudan,
Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Mali.
• North Africa: France, Spain, Italy
• Schizophrenia in democracy support
• ICC became contentious, the LGBT. Cultural goods as
well.
3. 2008-2014: Continental drift of
widening cracks? Governance &
politics
ECDPM Page 8
9. • CPA - Cotonou
• Paris, Busan principles
• MDGs mixed results
• R2P
• ICC
• COP 21yes but 19 & 20 more difficult
• EU AU UN triangle failed to deliver in sustainable
funding for security (Product & Obasanjo reports)
• Transit phase that last quite long and decreases
engagement from both sides on security ?
3. 2008-2014: Continental drift of
widening cracks? Multilateralism
ECDPM Page 9
10. “Need to rebuild confidence and commitments” at the
EU-AU 2014 summit
3. 2008-2014: Continental drift of
widening cracks? ECDPM summary
ECDPM Page 10
11. • Global meltdown
• Greek crisis & lengthy EU decisions on financial crisis
undermine its image
• Less Chinese growth, imports & investments
• Less trade
• African resilience to financial shocks
• Domestic resource mobilisation debates start,
announcing the return of conditionality
• EPAs finally seen as political issue in EU. Deadlines
and some get signed but also perhaps more
flexibility? No clear impact yet
4. 2014-2016: When the crises strike -
Economy
ECDPM Page 11
12. • Arab Spring
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Sahel
• Ebola
• Libya
• Terrorism in Africa (an African terrorism?)
• Syria
• Where is CSDP ? (Nicholas Westcott, EEAS Africa)
• And where is the comprehensive approach?
4. 2014-2016: When the crises strike -
Security
ECDPM Page 12
13. • EU unable to influence positively post-Arab springs
dynamics (i.e. Egypt)
• Middle Eastern & Arab & islamic conflicts expand into
Africa
• Europe’s loss of credibility in its governance of
migration flows
• Renewed Barroso Commission followed by Juncker
with very realistic ambitions (Growth, jobs & youth)
+ Mogherini as HR/VP show lack of collective political
ambition
• Towards renationalisation of Foreign Policy?
4. 2014-2016: When the crises strike
– Governance & politics
ECDPM Page 13
14. Cracks within continents and the continental drift seem
to keep widening
• AU chairperson election & Zuma agenda – few
common Africa positions?
• Willingness to decrease Africa Peace Facility
contribution to APSA
• Francophone Anglophone divide
• French/British burden sharing in Africa continues to
some extent
• Sahel shows new EU (but also UN) engagement from
several member States but for various reasons
• COP21, SDGs seen as success, but it is all about
implementation.
4. 2014-2016: When the crises strike-
multilateralism
ECDPM Page 14
15. 5. Scenarios for the future of Africa-
Europe relations
ECDPM Page 15
16. 1. The end of high growth rates in Europe?
2. No optimistic scenarios for the size of African
economy (even if diverse) in global economy
3. Trade will go on with or without or with slow EPA
4. Change in African agriculture will be key to feed
exploding population + adaptation to climate
change
5. Africa may rise but unequally – archipelagos of
wealth in oceans of poverty
6. Migration push to remain
7. Necessity to manage migration, employment in a
more collective way to have impact
5. Scenarios for the future of Africa-
Europe relations - Economy
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17. 1. EU strategic scenarios
• Generous donor but political dwarf
• Normative power & political power
• Declining power
10 key factors (from economy to internal politics,
balance between large Member States, voting
procedures & quality of institutional policy making)
Brexit not good for EU foreign policy and security
policy. But cooperation will continue at different levels.
Question is how good a lobbyist will the UK be?
5. Scenarios for the future of Africa-
Europe relations – Security (1)
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18. 1. African security challenges are numerous and
diverse
2. Prevention is necessary and its success are invisible
but has to be done
3. Future threats include:
• organised crime of all kinds,
• urban theatres,
• Youth & violence,
• virtual & technological spaces for conflict,
• terrorism,
• maritime but also air contexts (growth of air line
traffic).
5. Scenarios for the future of Africa-
Europe relations – Security (2)
ECDPM Page 18
19. 1. Highly unpredictable societies (see Arab Spring, but
also Ukraine…)
2. Youth in Africa can bring change quickly
3. If European governance standards are lowered
down (violation of Human Rights, undemocratic
forces coming to power) -> not encouraging for
African activists and risk of dialogues between
authoritarian rulers.
5. Scenarios for the future of Africa-
Europe relations – governance &
politics
ECDPM Page 19
20. 1. Direct coercion in multilateral fora works less well
than before…
2. ACP – Cotonou and its limits: debates & ECDPM
scenarios
3. Regional integration in Africa also takes different
shapes – AU & RECs but not only. Alphabet soups (&
Spaghetti bowls)
4. Strong institutions are needed, but too many
institutions is not good either
5. Role of ideologies & visions: pan-Africanism, but
also pan-Europeanism. (A European 2063 agenda?)
6. If bilateral relations are tense, joint multilateral
actions will be more difficult to achieve.
5. Scenarios for the future of Africa-
Europe relations – multilateralism
ECDPM Page 20
21. 1. Direct coercion in multilateral fora works less well
than before…
2. Regional integration in Africa also takes different
shapes
3. Strong institutions are needed, but too many
institutions is not good either
4. Role of ideologies & visions: pan-Africanism, but
also pan-Europeanism. (A European 2063 agenda?)
5. If bilateral relations are tense, joint multilateral
actions will be more difficult to achieve.
Too nice to fail? Towards debate
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23. • Many reasons (often mixed)
• Protect life and liberty (desperation migration/forced
migration due to conflict, war, natural disasters etc.)
• Pursue enhancement of livelihoods and lifestyles
(moving out of choice for new lifestyles) ‘economic
migration’
Often difficult to identify single reason for
moving yet often for seeking employment
Reasons for migration
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24. Why do we talk about migration and
development.... And what do we mean
by it?
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25. Migration
Development
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“... Migration is the original strategy for people seeking to
escape poverty, mitigate risk, and build a better life. It has
been with us since the dawn of mankind, and its
economic impact today is massive.“
(Peter Sutherland, UN Special Representative for International Migration)
28. Migration and Development
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Remittances
National Level
• Increase national
income (if formally
transferred)
• gain
creditworthiness
• stabilize national
balance of
payments accounts
• Rise in inflation
• Aggravation of
regional inequalities
between receiving
and non-receiving
areas
• No benefit to long-
term growth
Household level
• Afford basic needs
(food, education,
etc.) – Poverty
reduction
• Potentially increase
local capital for
investment
Negative:
• Increase on prices
(of land) etc.
29. • Food Security
To what degree is heightened mobility related to problems of food
insecurity? Food security shocks and chronic food insecurity as major
motives for migration for income-generating opportunity. For those with
less resources may lead to further fragility/insecurity.
• Climate Change – Migration as adaptation strategy
Changes in migration patterns can be responses to both extreme weather
events and longer-term climate variability and change and migration can
also be an effective adaptation strategy.
IPCC, UNFCCC increasingly recognize this link
• Peace&Security
Livelihood strategy in post-conflict societies (Pakistan, Nepal)
Pressure on social systems and social cohesion
Taking account of ‘returning’ migrants in peace- and statebuilding
Link with development dimensions
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30. 8 Point Plan
1. Protect the human rights of all migrants
2. Reduce the costs of labour migration
3. Eliminate migrant exploitation including human
trafficking
4. Address the plight of stranded migrants
5. Improve public perceptions of migrants
6. Integrate migration into the development agenda
7. Strengthen the migration evidence base
8. Enhance migration partnerships and cooperation
UN High Level Dialogue
2013
ECDPM Page 30
International
and Post-2015
31. Goal 8 Sustainable economic growth/ decent work
• Promote labour rights and promote safe and secure
working environments of all workers, including migrant
workers, particularly women migrants…
Goal 10 Reduce inequality within and among countries
• Facilitate orderly, safe, regular and responsible migration
and mobility of people, including through implementation of
planned and well-managed migration policies
• By 2030, reduce to less than 3% the transaction costs of
migrant remittances and eliminate remittance corridors
with costs higher than 5%
Post-2015 OWG Text
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International
and Post-2015
32. • separate debate on the Common European Asylum
System (CEAS),
• responsibility sharing and solidarity among MS
• Fight against irregular migration & “Fortress Europe”
without providing safe & legal channels (MS)
Exacerbating the situations of irregular migrants
• External dimension of migration and internal
management inextricably linked
EU agenda – Internal issues
ECDPM Page 32
European Union
Internal Debate
on CEAS
33. ECDPM Page 33
“Money should not
be spent building
the walls in Europe
[...] but to
dismantle the walls
in countries [of the
South]”
“Equally important is
the need to work on
the link between
migration and
development”
“Legal migration is a
fence against illegal
migration ”
34. • 2006 Migration Policy Framework for Africa
M&D: Brain Drain, Diaspora, Remittances
• Ouagadougou Action Plan to Combat Trafficking of
Human Beings
• African Common Position on Migration and
Development
• “Migration as effective tool for development”
• Post-2015 CAP notes migration and development
• RECs
Free labour migration provisions, e.g. EAC Common Market
Protocol Article 10 “free movement of workers” – progress
but difficult to fully implement; SADC region more
restrictive
African Union & RECs
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African Union,
RECs
36. Page 36ECDPM
European Union
External
Policy Agenda
Internal Debate
on CEAS
EU
MS
African Union
Policy Agenda
RECs
RECs
RECs RECs
Practice
International and Post-
2015
ECDPM
37. Page 37ECDPM
European Union
External
Policy Agenda
Internal Debate
on CEAS
EU
MS
African Union
Policy Agenda
RECs
RECs
RECs RECs
Practice
International and Post-
2015
Future ECDPM work?
38. Risks
ECDPM Page 38
• Policy Momentum stays
at the global level but no
traction nationally
• Topic of migration
remains politically
sensitive in many
countries in South and
North
• Funding:
• Already Existing
research by ACP-
OBS
• Larger scale
research (e.g.
OECD)
Opportunities
• Increased momentum
• Integration of migration in
development planning
recognised more widely
39. • In which ECDPM areas do you see scope for future
ECDPM engagement in the topic of migration and
development?
• What are the opportunities and challenges to look
more at the level of practice and feed experiences
back to policy level?
• From the perspective of various programmes, where
do you see the dimension of migration as being
relevant?
Discussion
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41. According to World Bank
73 million forced migrants
Forced Migrants (international&national)
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33.3
21.9
16.7
1.2
Migrants in Mio.
IDPs - conflict
IDPs natural
disaster
Refugees
Asylum
Seekers
Many more
undocumented?
Editor's Notes
Globally there are 232 million international migrants in the world, representing 3.1 per cent of the global population.
48 per cent of all international migrants are women, who are increasingly migrating for work.
Most international migration today is related to seeking employment. More than 90per cent of all international migrants are workers and their families.
In 2013, Asians represented the largest diaspora group residing outside their major area of birth.
Currently, the world´s largest corridor of international migration is between the United States and Mexico.
It is estimated that one in eight migrants are between the ages of 15 and 24.
„Migrant remittances exceed the value of all overseas development aid combined, to say nothing of the taxes that migrants pay, the investments they make, and the trade they stimulate.“
Migration is first and foremost a human reality and cannot be considered good or bad for development – There is often no clear causal link between migration and development processes but it of course has a variety of effects on development. The two enter a complex, contested and nuanced relationship. Impacts depend on what level of development we look at – Household vs. Macroeconomic development of a country. It also depends on what dimension of development we focus on: economic development?, social development? Well-being? Income, education, equality? power relations within households?
It has many interlinkages with development processes, both at the micro and at the macro level.
Typically, development experts regard migration as a sign of failure: if development policies work, people should not want to move. Accordingly, migration has been viewed as a problem to be solved – not as a solution to a problem.
Some examples of the migration –development link (non-exhaustive)
Most attention is usually paid to remittances due to their scale and because they are a lifeline to many poor households. In Bangladesh, for example, just 13% of households that receive remittances from abroad are below the poverty line, compared to 34% of non-remittance-receiving households. Evidence from Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere shows that remittances reduce the depth and severity of poverty, and that the additional income is disproportionately spent on education and health. In rural Pakistan, remittances are associated with higher school enrollment, especially for girls. The list goes on.
Remittances are a lifeline to poor people – they directly promote poverty reduction by increasing income of remittance receivers
Migration can be thought of as a financial strategy to diversify household risk. That strategy requires people to absorb up-front investment costs in order to generate stream of further revenue. Viewed through this lens, migration is an investment in human capital that aims to help households manage risk and vulnerability, and remittances are the pay-out from that capital.
Migration is often considered a livelihood strategy and a household investment to improve its long term social and economic status. Internal and international migration can have a crucial insurance function by protecting people from the destabilizing and exclusionary effects of absent or ill-functioning markets, inequality, corruption and authoritarianism, failing state policies, and a lack of state-provided social security and basic public services such as education and health care.. Spending and investment of remittances can also have substantial positive effects on economic growth in origin communities and regions, from which (poorer) non-migrants can also benefit to a certain extent through ‘multiplier’ effects. From a perspective of human development that focuses on the well-being and capabilities of people, this constitutes progress and should be seen in a positive light.
However, migration and remittances cannot overcome more structural development constraints such as misguided macroeconomic policies, socioeconomic inequalities, authoritarianism, corruption, and legal insecurity. Evidence shows that the extent to which migration can play a positive (or negative) role in social, economic and political change in origin-countries depends on broad development conditions. In contexts that are unfavorable to human and social development, migration may actually reinforce existing inequalities. High poverty and inequality often mean that international migration (particularly to wealthy countries) remains a privilege of the more affluent groups in origin communities and societies. Such strong ‘‘selection’’ is reinforced by immigration policies that discriminate in favor of the skilled and against the low-skilled.
Food Security issues are linked with migration both because migration is seen as major income generating opportunity for food insecure households, secondly because heightened mobility, especially to urban areas, needs to be taken into account in food security planning.
A climate and land based adaptation lens
IPCCC Report 2014 on adaptation
Changes in migration patterns can be responses to both extreme weather events and longer-term climate variability and change and migration can also be an effective adaptation strategy
UNFCCC Cancun Adaptation Framework 2010 C{16/Paragraph 14F
“Measures to enhance understanding, coordination and cooperation with regard to cc induced displacement, migration and planned relocation, where appropriate at the national, regional and international levels
UNCCD COP 2015 Turkey land-based adaptation and resilience
There are also a number of links between migration, situations of fragility as well as peace and security. Beyond the fact that conflict is one of the major reasons for displacement, migration can also put additional pressure on social cohesion and act as trigger for existing tensions (e.g. between ethnicities). Moreover in the policy area of peace and statebuilding and development planning migration migration aspects may play a role.
Migration received significant attention throughout the nine days of negotiations, with many delegations speaking broadly to the important role of migrants in sustainable development. This understanding is evident in the strong presence that migration has retained in the final outcome document, as framed by a reference in its chapeau to the Declaration of the High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development.
The inclusion of these targets is a testament to the ongoing support of delegations throughout OWG sessions, while their exact placement and wording reflect significant discussion during the final round of negotiations. Support for Goal 8’s target on migrant worker rights remained strong during each read-through of the goal. A last-minute proposal to include a reference to women migrants received positive feedback and was quickly incorporated into the text. Delegations also expressed broad support for migration-related targets within Goal 10, with two clarifying interventions requested from IOM. In response to a question regarding the basis for the use of “5%” for transfer costs of remittances, IOM noted that while this was a benchmark agreed by the G20 in 2011, World Bank data indicates the possibility of further reduction. Momentum on the issue continued into the second read-through of the goal, when a group of over ten
In other cases, language on migration was not met with consensus. After a dedicated target on reducing the number of internally displaced persons and refugees worldwide was deleted from the Zero Draft, twenty member states called for the reinsertion of language on forced migration. Nevertheless, a troika of states raised strong opposition, noting the sensitive nature of the issue and the importance of unique national and regional contexts. Additionally a proposal to create a dedicated section on migration within Goal 17 was never picked up by the Co-Chairs or commented on by other delegations.
These visionary statements by the Open Working Group are the signs of a big shift over the last decade and a half. Development policy makers are thinking about how to harness the power of migration for global development and plan for a mobile world. This is exactly the right thing to do and decades of social science show that there is no alternative. If the SDGs are to be a serious roadmap for global development policy, they must seriously engage with migration policy.
Mogherini:
Equally important is the need to work on the link between development and migration. The international community has pledged to put people at the centre of the post-2015 development agenda. I believe that, as requested by the EU-Africa Summit, global partnerships on migration and human mobility should be a core component of the post 2015-development agenda as a key factor for sustainable development. The EU’s strategic framework for human rights and democracy does not talk about migration. It should. When forced migrants leave their countries because of human rights abuses, the EU should intervene early on, mainstreaming human rights, with specific reference to migration, in its development policy.
Neven Mimica: Money should not be spent building the walls in Europe […] but to dismantle the walls in countries of origin”. During his hearing, Mimica outlined a nuanced approach to migration noting that the majority of African migrants migrate within the African continent. He added, legal migration options should be improved as well as addressing the social and economic conditions within Africa.
Piebalgs announced 10 Million Project “Rights of Migrants in Action” focusing on South-South Migration and migrants’ rights- Commissioner Piebalgs said: “This project proposes an innovative approach focusing on migration between developing countries. It shows the EU’s genuine and firm commitment to address human trafficking and forced labour, some of the worst forms of modern slavery, and our will to improve migrants’ rights more generally. And it’s clear for us that we need to work with civil society to make sure that migrants' dignity is respected".
As a summary, we do see some policy momentum and if the migration targets remain in the post-2015 agenda also some pressure from a higher level to have concrete outcomes on these targets.
I want to frame the discussion in what could be a way forward for ECDPM to engage and do more research on on migration and development issues.
And I want to do that by looking at the picture of the policy agendas again to show how we have so far looked at the issue and where new angles could be in the future.
For now we have mainly engaged in the areas marked by a red triangle. We have looked at Policy Coherence for Development, first from an EU angle and then also wrote a paper of PCD on migration and development in more universal terms. We have engaged with migration and development and its importance for the post-2015 development agenda through various publications. We have published papers on diaspora within the EU. Before I started working at ECDPM Henrike has also done work on the African Union and EU Policy Framework. Through blogs and smaller items we published on the issue of the Joint Africa EU Strategy on Migration Mobility and Employment Partnership. Most of the work has been focused on the Policy agendas and on EU related issues.
The question is now how the center can engage more strategically with the topic of migration and also integrate the migration dimension in some of the work we do where it is relevant.
I think from SEEA perspective it makes sense to build on the PCD work but more more towards strengthening EU integrated approaches following up on the great statements that we have heard from the incoming Commission – This will include accompanying the Migration Partnership and the Dialogue between the AU and the EU on these topics.
But beyond that to me the value lies in looking much more at the level of practices surrounding migration whether governed or not and its links with development dynamics and feeding information back to the policy level (either EU or elsewhere). Another possibility is to look more closely to the barriers and interests and other political economy factors around regional mobility and whether the formal policy frameworks actually serve and are able to govern what is often largely informal migration practice.
International or Regional policy objectives, such as reducing the immense costs of labour migration, could still be an entry point in looking at migration practices that determine the factors of why it may be costly.
How do migrants in certain regions react to the existing or non-existing governance spaces. What factors exactly make migration costly? What are the experiences of those migrating and those staying behind – Are policies in place to provide assistance? How do migration dynamics affect other local policy objectives, e.g. employment creation? What are some effects of formal policies aiming to govern informal movements? How do migrants experience their moving? What are the actors and their interests in organizing migration? These are a lot of questions and need to be further broken down to specific cases to look at. But one of the reasons why it may be good to start looking into such type of research is that we can build a base from there to feed these experiences back to the policy level.
I think there is worth in taking into account the migration dimension in other work that we do and haere it is really about breaking down some of the policy silos. For example . if we talk about youth employment or food (in)security. The same if we talk about conflict and fragility and livelihood strategies related to migration. For example in some post-conflict regions in Nepal and Pakistan households have few livelihood opportunities available to them and perceive little state presence. Migration for work (either nationally) or internationally – often appears to be the only option available, especially to young people – this then creates new development dynamics a state has to respond to.
A second option is again to look more at the implementation level of existing policies and trying to find solutions to unblock some of the political economy factors hindering it. That may however be quite ambitious – often very similar political considerations than we see in the EU when talking about international migration play a role.
73 million forced migrants
IDPs (33.3 million due to conflict and violence, 21.9 million due to natural disasters)
Refugees 16.7 million
Asylum seekers 1.2 million
Forced Migration: It should be noted that in many instances it is very difficult to identify a single reason for moving and to determine whether movement is voluntary or forced. Forced migrants change from one type of displacement to another, and in some instances flows are mixed.