For more than 20 years, the EU has been co-operating with the ACP countries in the framework of the Lomé Convention. This Convention is the most substantial development cooperation framework in the world. Despite its outstanding importance, it is not very well known to civil society organisation, because it primarily serves as a framework for government-government cooperation. During the last two years this Convention was re-negotiated. The result is a new partnership agreement, which was signed in Cotonou, Benin, in June this year, and is now called the Cotonou agreement.
The new agreement is quite different from the Lomé Convention in a number of ways. One important new feature is a greater emphasis on the role of civil society.
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- Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness
- The EU Development Cooperation Instrument-Thematic Programme "Non state Actors and Local Authorities in Development -General evaluation of actions to raise public awareness of development issue in Europe/Development Education
- EU Report on Millenium Development Goals 200-2004. EU contribution to the review of the MDG's at the UN 2005 High Level Event
- EU Strategy for supporting disaster risk reduction in developing countries-2009