22-01-2020 14:30
‘Effectiveness, efficiency and results of EU aid for sustainable development’
Paul-Henri Spaak 5B001
On Wednesday 22 January 2020, the Committee on Development (DEVE) held a public hearing on effectiveness, efficiency and results of EU aid for sustainable development with experts, including Thomas Gass, the Co-Chair of the Global Partnership of Effective Development Cooperation, Mr Thomas Gass, OECD DAC Chair Ms Susanna Moorehead, Mr Vitalice Meja of the network "Reality of Aid Africa" and Ms Jean-Letitia Saldanha of the European Network on Debt and Development.
The aim of the hearing was to ensure that the EU aid for sustainable development is effective and efficient and it will feed into a Parliament resolution on increasing the effectiveness of development cooperation that DEVE Committee will prepare in the first semester of 2020.
- Draft programme of the hearing (PDF - 415 KB)
- Poster of the hearing (PDF - 6 MB)
- Video recording
- Inputs from Thomas Gass, Co-Chair of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) and Assistant Director General the Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation (SDC) (PDF - 701 KB)
- Input by Vitalice Meja – Executive Director of the civil society network “Reality of Aid Africa” (PDF - 153 KB)
- ‘Effectiveness to Impact – Study on the application of the effectiveness principles’ by Andrew Benfield (PDF - 116 KB)
- Video presentation by Andrew Benfield
- EURODAD input on Effectiveness, efficiency and results of EU aid for sustainable development (PDF - 648 KB)
- Briefing on 'Understanding development effectiveness: Concepts, players and tools'