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Presentation by Mr. Philippe LoopTRANSCRIPT
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EuropeAid: How EU aid tackles poverty Philippe LoopEuropeAid Cooperation OfficeBrussels, 4th December 2010
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1Why development aid?
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Why development aid?
• 1.4 billion people still live in extreme poverty
• In Africa, a child dies from malaria every 45 seconds
• Globally, nearly a billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water
•½ million mothers die each year in pregnancy or within 7 weeks of giving birth
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Impact of EC development actions
Thanks to EU funds…
…more than 9 million pupils have been enrolled in primary
education since 2004
…more than 31 million people being connected to drinking
water and 9 million to sanitation facilities since 2004
…around 85,000 female students have enrolled in secondary
education, in 10 countries of Sub- Saharan Africa during the past
five years
…over 7200 km of roads, have been built and of more
than 29,000 km of roads have been maintained
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2000 Millennium Development Goals
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Source: World Bank Global Monitoring Report 2009
Achieved by 2007Needed to be achieved by 2007 to be on track
MDG 1.cHunger
MDG 2Primary
education
MDG 3Genderparity
MDG 4Child
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MDG 5.aMaternalmortality
MDG 7.cMDG 7.c
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MDG 7.cAccess tosanitation
MDG 1.aExtremepoverty
2015 targets
Variation in progress by 2007
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2European Aid in facts & figures
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The EC development aid context – Where do we work?
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Improving lives world-wide
• The EU is committed to eradicating poverty and promoting freedom and security
• The EU's external policy aims to promote the core European values of peace, stability, democracy and prosperity
•We work in partnership to ensure our actions have a real, positive and lasting impact on people's lives
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European Union = biggest donor in the world
The EU is not one donor but 27 MemberStates and the Commission • together responsible for 56% of all
development aid (2009: €48.2 billion)• To compare: USA provides 24% (€20.6 billion)
European Commission on its own:• Second largest donor of development aid
(13%, after USA) • Second largest donor of humanitarian aid• Present in approx. 150 countries
Based on OECD/DAC figures 2009
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Graph 1: Sectoral Breakdown
Commitments 2009 in € million
ODA resources managed by European Commission
1. Social Infrastructures: Education, Health, Water,
Government & Civil Society, Other ; 4 082 M€;
34.7%
3. Production : Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing, Industry, Mining &
Construction, Trade & Tourism; 1 707 M€; 14.5%
9. Other/Unallocated : Admin. Costs, Support to NGOs, Unspecified; 546
M€; 4.6%
6. Action relating to debt; 13 M€; 0.1%
2. Economic Infrastructures & Services : Transport,
Communications, Energy, Other services; 1 243 M€;
10.6%
5. Budget Support, Food Aid, Food Security; 1 298
M€; 11.0%
4. Multisector/Crosscutting : Environment, Other; 1
612 M€; 13.7%
7. Emergency assistance, Reconstruction Relief; 1
262 M€; 10.7%
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3Who we are
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Implementation:EuropeAid (future DEVCO) tasks
•Responsible for implementing external aid programmes across the world
• Aims to deliver development aid in an efficient and effective way
• Responsible for translating policies into practical aid actions and for developing new ways of aid delivery
• Responsible for the steps of aid delivery: identification, feasibility, financial decisions and controls, tendering, contracting, monitoring and evaluation
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Implementation: Delegations
Delegations in countries receiving EC external assistance: approx. 115
Delegations with international organisations (e.g. UN, OECD)
Delegations with pre-accession countries (e.g. Turkey)
Delegations with industrialised countries (e.g. USA, Japan)
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Aid delivery methods
• Projects: series of activities aimed at bringing about clearly
specified objectives within a defined timeframe and a defined
budget. Use of donor or country procedures.
• Sector Policy Support Programme: programmes of the
European Commission designed to support the partner
government’s sector programme. Implemented through sector
budget support (SBS), pooled funding or project approach.
• General budget support: large money transfer to the national
treasury of a partner country in support of a national development
policy. Use of country procedures.
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4Challenges ahead
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Challenges ahead
• Deliver on our promises to the Millennium Development Goals
• Make Aid effectiveness happen
• Focusing on results and high impact aid
• Developing innovative financing instruments
• Facilitation of more inclusive growth and sustainable growth
• Take full advantage of the Lisbon Treaty and the European External Action Service for policy coherence
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THANK YOU!