Committee Reports::Report - Advisory Group of the Joint Committee on European Affairs::04 February, 2003::Appendix


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Annex 1

Joint Statement by the Commission and the Council (November 2000)

It established an integrated framework for Community Development activities. identifying six priority areas where Community Action could offer added value:

•The link between trade and development

•Regional integration and co-operation

•Support for macroeconomic policies

•Transport

•Food security and sustainable rural development and;

•Boosting institutional capacity

Key cross cutting issues were also identified, including:

•Human Rights

•Good governance and the Rule of Law

•Gender

•Environment

•Conflict prevention and crisis management

•And the 3 Cs - i.e. Coherence, Complementarity and Coordination

Here again there is much common ground with IrelandAid’s programme

The Commission has also tapped into new donor thinking through the use of EC Country Strategy Papers, which provide for co-development with partner countries of an agreed basis for co-operation, consistent with international work on the World Bank-led PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy) process. Henceforth, the Commission will have to draft Country Strategy Papers in the field in a consultative process involving all Member States and other donors and will have to be co-ordinated with the World Bank/PRSP process.