Skip to main content

Articles

Increase your knowledge on development practices and policies, and read about lessons learnt from development professionals working around the world.
Results (5)

Views from the Field: Q&A with Thierry Barbé, EU Head of Cooperation in Burkina Faso

Article
Voices & Views

Burkina Faso’s population is set to double within 20 years, bringing a host of development challenges. Head of EU Cooperation Thierry Barbé discusses how the EU is supporting the government on areas from green energy to justice...

Africa
Burkina Faso
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Resilience
Innovative Financing for Development
+2
Blending
Justice & rule of law

Views from the Field: In Conversation with the EU Ambassador to the African Union

Article
Voices & Views

Gary Quince, who is nearing the end of his five years heading the EU Delegation to the African Union, shares his experiences and discusses the EU's support to the AU, touching on the gap between optimistic treaties and their...

Africa
Europe
Development Policy
Justice & rule of law
Peace and Security
+2
Private Sector
Trade & Economic Integration

Overcoming Social Inequality: Highlights from Brazil and Honduras with EUROsociAL

Article
Voices & Views

Despite its positive development over the last decade, Latin America still faces challenges in overcoming social inequality. To tackle these discrepancies the EU launched in 2005 a programme of cooperation with Latin American...

Americas & the Caribbean
Brazil
Honduras
Employment & VET
Justice & rule of law
Peace and Security
+1
Social Protection and Inclusion

Extending Budget Support to Civil Society - Part 1: An Example from South Africa

Article
Voices & Views

How can Sector Budget Support embrace Civil Society and what can be achieved? How can such support offer an effective way to strengthen sector capacity and governance? In this first of a two-part series on capacity4dev.eu, Jozet...

Africa
South Africa
Budget support
Civil Society
Economics & Public Finance
+2
Justice & rule of law
Peace and Security

Public Sector Reform in Fragile Situations, A Voice from Sudan

Article
Voices & Views

Public sector reform is all too often hindered by the perception that change is being imposed from the outside, according to Rebecca Joshua Okwaci, Under Secretary for Ministry of Labour, Public Service and Human Resources in the...

Employment & VET
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Governance & Corruption
+4
Justice & rule of law
Peace and Security
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation
Social Protection and Inclusion