The EC's intervention in this sector aims to reduce the cost of travel and increase the quality of services. For individuals this means affordable access to jobs, health, education and other social amenities. For communities affordable transport means better and safer roads, competitive rail services, efficient and safe ports, seaways, airports, air corridors and opens trade corridors.
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With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, experts agree that the continuing trend towards urbanisation is both inevitable and irreversible. New EC guidelines propose a fresh mindset to assist the development of better cities.
For the first time in...
Technical assistance plays a key part in projects backed by the European Development Fund (EDF). However, translating the needs of a beneficiary government can be challenging. We hear from Ram-Maria Ouedraogo who has experience of working on both sides of the aid partnership.
Ms...
When it comes to climate change, it’s a mad, mad world. That’s the message from a new EC-commissioned e-booklet, which uses the abbreviation “MAD” to outline a strategic framework for combating global warning: Mitigation, Adaptation, Development.
The message is stark and aimed...
Decades of international donor support to the transport sector in Chad have targeted the national transport network, but the government remains dependent on external technical assistance.
To forge a more sustainable path, the European Commission and Chad’s Ministry of Transport...
How can we bring the principles of the Backbone Strategy on Technical Cooperation Reform into supporting infrastructure programmes? How can we be Backbone-minded? These were the themes of a recent internal session at EuropeAid headquarters.
AIDCO Unit E7, which is in charge of...
To maximise the benefits from aid and minimise the risk of doing harm, donors need to understand and take into account the partner country’s political and economic realities. To do this, a number of donors have decided to invest more energy in governance and political economy...
Donors struggle to translate policies on governance to practical actions in the field. One promising avenue for improvement leads donors to pay more careful attention to governance in sectors. To help in this journey, EuropeAid has developed and published a guidance tool for its...
