Post 2015: Global Action for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future

Box 10.5 Areas for EU support: Recommendations from the Case Studies
Nepal
• Aid: Mobilize 0.7% of GNI as ODA, as this helps
recipient countries in resource planning. Adhere
to the Paris, Doha and Busan Declarations.
Allocate 40% of aid to productive sectors such
as agriculture and infrastructure development.
Focus ODA on job creation, including making
use of the skills of returning migrants.
• Aid for Trade: Should be additional, predictable
and needs oriented. Leverage development
assistance for export promotion as well as for
FDI facilitation from the EU.
• Trade regime: Abolish para-tariff and non-tariff
barriers.
• Migration: Ratify the UN International
Convention on the protection of the rights of
migrants and their families and encourage other
recipient-countries to do so as well. Support
Nepal in better managing all dimensions of
migration.
• International support: Help track illicit
international financial transfers.
Rwanda
• Aid: Ensure that 0.7% of GNI is mobilised as
development aid. Conform to the Paris, Doha
and Busan Declarations. Allocate appropriate
amount of aid funding to productive sectors.
• Aid for Trade: Encourage and expand; should
be additional and reliable. Assist capacity
building for exporters to ensure they develop
understanding of and capacity to meet EU
quality-control requirements for exporting
processed food products and packaging.
• Trade regime: Ensure Market Access Agreement
with EAC is concluded as rapidly as possible.
• International support: Support pursuit of
national poverty reduction strategy.
Côte d’Ivoire
• Aid: Support for preparing subsequent
achievement of any MDGs not reached by 2015.
Support for strengthening public expenditure
financial management.
• Trade regime: Avoid disrupting unity of the
ECOWAS regional bloc of states through the
EPA negotiations. Reflect on how to best deal
with the different levels of preferences and access
regimes between LDCs and other developing
countries.
• Investment: Promote private-sector
investments, and growth with job creation.
Contribute to strengthening the private sector
and entrepreneurship through supporting
capacity building in the areas of standardization
and quality control. Facilitate information
access and increase awareness on national and
international tender processes.
• Good governance: Support for the establishment
of the high court and the court of auditors.
• International support: Strengthen cooperation
with Côte d’Ivoire on monitoring illicit funds.
Support capacity building in the area of customs
services and tax. Support for monitoring
migration of military or paramilitary origin
Peru
• Cooperation: Shift the axis of cooperation away
from support for basic development, towards the
promotion of broader and fuller objectives.
• Knowledge sharing: Assist Peru in dealing with
the most important future major challenges:
institutional development and democratic
governance, provision of high-quality services
to the public and reduction of structural
inequalities. Europe is an important source of
ideas, technical and political expertise, as well
as financial aid for Peru.
• Capacity building: Strengthen the government
capacity to manage natural resources, deliver
public services effectively and encourage
redistribution. Technical cooperation for
institutional strengthening to deliver public
services (education, health, security and justice).
The EU can make a distinct contribution in
these areas, as Peru does not find appropriate
support and cooperation in most of them from
many of its other development partners.
poSt-2015: Global actIon For an IncluSIvE anD SuStaInablE FuturE
The case study
reports already
identify a series of
areas where the
EU could usefully
support
development
processes at the
national level.
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