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Practical Implications of the Lisbon Treaty and New EU Foreign Service for Development Cooperation

Get information about emerging challenges by leading develoment experts

Dates: 25 June 2010

Location: Bonn

Venue: EADI Secretariat

This EADI Masterclass will consider the practical consequences of Treaty of Lisbon and the ongoing international politics of external action from an development perspective. It will focus on the EU's role as an actor in the global process whilst taking into consideration the implications of recent changes within EU policy processes and policy evolution in other areas of external relations policy.

Lectures:

Professor Paul Hoebink, Extraordinary Professor at CIDIN - He researches new trends in development cooperation and can regularly be seen in the Dutch and international media.  He is a member of the Worldconnectors which is a network of opinion leaders in the field of international cooperation as well as chairman of SANPAD, a research program from the foreign ministry that focuses on alternatives in development.  His specialization further includes the aid policy of Dutch government and international organizations, project evaluation, debt policy and development- and project planning.

Mikaela Gavas, ODI -  Mikaela Gavas specialises in European Union development cooperation. She has worked in the EU institutions - Commission and Parliament - as well as for an EU Member State, the UK's Department for International Development, where she led on drafting the department's EU Institutional Strategy Paper and on analysis on the implications of the Lisbon Treaty for EU development cooperation. She managed BOND's (UK NGO network) EU programme from 2002 to 2006 and chaired CONCORD's (European Confederation of NGOs) Policy Forum. She has also worked for a number of NGOs, including Saferworld on conflict prevention and arms controls and Oxfam GB advising senior management on EU influencing strategies and policy analysis.

Specific objectives include:

• Brief review of what came out of Lisbon Treaty, status update on events in early 2010 and a look forward to the process, with a focus on the politics of the process and the different options for moving ahead
• Understand the potential role that the new instruments and structures can play in achieving more coherent development policies and whether/how the institutions needs to change give recent external and internal changes in policy processes
• Identify the practical implications for EU external relations policy, particularly in relation to development cooperation processes

Participants will receive:

• Access to wiki with publications and training session documentation
• Certificate of participation provided by EADI

Register online (Number of participants is limited)  

Participation fee is 400 EUR. There is a special discount of 50 EUR for EADI members and partners and also for students with valid student ID. Lunch and refreshments are included. Please be aware that EADI does not offer any funding.

Terms and conditions: We reserve the right to cancel any class with insufficient registration, in which case, the tuition fee will be refunded.

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