European Development Co-operation to 2020: Emerging Issues for Europe's Development Policy-making

This is an important moment in the history of Europe's relations with developing countries. New issues are emerging which are interconnected and of global nature. Three major issues are highly discussed: emerging players, energy security and climate change:

1. International relations are undergoing profound change with newly emerging powers entering the scene. This has potentially radical effects on international development policy.

2. Energy security has shot to the top of Europe’s foreign policy agenda. A plethora of new energy partnerships has been or is being put in place, from Africa, through the Middle East, to Central Asia. Policy-makers in Brussels acknowledge that a key 'emerging need' is a better understanding of the relationship between energy imperatives on the one hand, and policies related to development, good governance and democracy promotion on the other hand.

3. Climate change is rising rapidly up in many donors’ agendas but there has so far been little systematic work done on climate change and European development policy. The intersection between the development policy and new issues such as climate change, emerging powers and energy security has become increasingly complex.

In this session Sven Grimm, Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik, John Humphrey, Institute of Development Studies, and Garth le Pere, Institute for Global Dialogue, will present and discuss how this intersection will shape the future of Europe's policies towards developing countries.

See the session report.


Chair:

Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam
Professor of Development Studies
Department of International Environment & Development Studies (Noragric)
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)
Norway

Speakers:

Sven Grimm
Deutsches Institut fuer Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Germany

John Humphrey
Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
University of Sussex
United Kingdom

Garth le Pere
Institute for Global Dialogue
South Africa

Organizer:

EADI Secretariat
Bonn
Germany