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FOND Development Summer Camp9 July 2015
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Why CONCORD (and I) cares about Policy Coherence for Development
Blandine BouniolPCD Coordinator
Incoherencies have negative impacts on
people’s lives and the planet
Examples
Sorry I’m busy
saving the planet
Biofuels for European cars vs Food security in
developing countries
Biofuels for European cars vs Food security in
developing countries
Favorable regulation for European big
businesses’ profits vs fiscal revenues for
developing countries
Favorable regulation for European big
businesses’ profits vs fiscal revenues for
developing countries
Reasons for incoherencies •Development objectives are subordinated to other interests
•Lack of education on development / Development considered as being handled by aid only
•Inadequate and inefficient institutional mechanisms
• Lack of political will
CONCORD vision on PCD
Treaty obligation
Article 208 of the Lisbon Treaty :
“The Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries.”
Ensuring that EU policies are not worsening poverty and human rights
violations in developing countries
PCD = SOCIAL JUSTICE and FAIRNESS
RIGHTS and PEOPLE
POLITICAL VISION
•Global development is in the EU’s interest •Acknowledgement of impacts beyond EU borders
POLICY MAKING
•Participative policy making; multi-actor coordination
•Evidence-based / informed policy-making
DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS
•Complementarity to aid effectiveness secure or multiply aid impact
•Create an enabling environment for development and human rights •Respect ownership of developing countries
•Accountability of the EU towards European citizens and partner countries
To make PCD a reality, we need:
1. Political will and commitment
2. Institutional mechanisms• to prevent incoherencies• To detect incoherencies• To redress incoherencies
3. Competence
Build PCD in everyday political choice
My motivation to work on PCD
•An opportunity to innovate and think outside the box
•The promise of a fairer, more harmonious world
Promoting PCD in the post 2015 framework
• An enabler: none of the SDGs will be achieved to the maximum extent possible without PCD
• A mean to balance the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development
• A commitment to dialogue and coordination
From PCD to PCSD
A new “D” : 17 SDGs •PCD = a Northern concept / old donor-beneficiary relation•PCSD = universal agenda
A new “C”: multidimensional coherence•Domestic, external, collaborative•No agenda for alignment/harmonization
Role of the EU
•Legitimacy: unique region with a legal PCD obligation The EU should use its role as PCD champion globally in the post 2015 negotiations
Push for PCD as a target AND in the Declaration
•Accountability to deliver EU obligation + global commitments implementation plan
mechanisms: merging with PCD mecha?
Walk the talk - make PCD a reality!
CONCORD strategy on PCD
1.Promoting PCD in and outside Europe
2.Exposing incoherencies of European policies / evidence building
3.Capacity building towards CONCORD members
CONCORD policy products
- Spotlight report 2009 - 2011- 2013 -2015-Overview of national PCD systems in some EU MS-Policy papers
CONCORD training for its members
-Guide of good practices on how to work on PCD
-PCD Training curriculum for CONCORD members
-Training of trainers
Next event: December 2015!
Why I am working in the sector of development cooperation
Contribute, share, learn, discover, dare,
challenge myself and others, meet eclectic people, get inspired, connect ideas and people,
protect, care, keep my promise of a better world for my children and for them all!
Merci!
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