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    EU's top-down approach may run against high-impact aid strategy

    The programming of the 11th EDF is a critical test of the EU's strategy to deliver high-impact aid, writes Alisa Herrero Cangas, policy officer at the European Center for Development Policy Management in this guest commentary. What are the key lessons learned from ECDPM's analysis?

    By Alisa Herrero Cangas // 02 November 2015

    The 11th European Development Fund is the European Union’s main tool for providing development aid to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. Its budget of 30.5 billion euros ($33.5 billion) for the period 2014-2020 represents about one-third of the total EU foreign and development aid. The programming of the 11th EDF is a critical test of the EU’s strategy to deliver high-impact aid, the Agenda for Change.

    At the European Center for Development Policy Management — an independent think tank — we have looked at how the EU conducted its programming process. Here are some of the findings:

    1. Around 15 billion euros is dedicated to funding development cooperation programs in 74 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Over 80 percent of funds are directed to least developed countries and low-income countries where, in theory, the needs are greatest and aid has more added value.

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      Alisa Herrero Cangas

      Alisa Herrero Cangas is a policy officer at ECDPM and is based in Brussels. With a background in international relations and development, studying at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the London School of Economics, she specializes in the interinstitutional aspects of EU external relations and in EU development cooperation.

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