Changes of European Community’s Development Cooperation Policy and The European Community’s ODA Outlook for Africa
Thứ Ba, 18/04/2023
Dr. Kieu Thanh Nga (IAMES)
Abstract:
Since the first
EU-Africa Summit in 2000, the EU-Africa Joint Strategy
(JAES) later adopted in 2007, EU-Africa relations moved beyond the
post-colonial model to build an equal partnership. In the period 2000 - 2015,
EU’s development cooperation to Africa mainly implemented the Millennium
Development Goals (MDG). In the period after 2015 with the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development of the United Nations, opportunities and challenges
from globalization as well as divisions within the EU, poses to EU a request to
change its development policy. The new EU-Africa Strategy approved by European
Parliament on March 25, 2021 is one of the EU’s development cooperation
policies aimed at ‘advancing Europe’s interests and values in the world’. The new EU-Africa Strategy
includes: green transition, digital
transition, sustainable growth and jobs, peace and
governance, migration and refugee. This is proof for a more
strategic relationship in EU-Africa cooperation, being equal partners, goes
beyond development aid.
Keywords: Development
Cooperation, ODA, EU, Africa, Millennium Development Goals (MDG), Sustainable
Development Goals (SDG).