1. European Development Cooperation to 2020: Emerging Issues
Simon Maxwell

2. The argument
European Development Cooperation has been on a journey – and this will continue
The next decade will see big challenges
A new research policy partnership can put Europe in the forefront – if we get it right

3. EDC 2008: an infrastructure fit for purpose (almost)
EuropeAid
DPS
Deconcentration
Code of Conduct
Coherence
Financial Perspectives
CFSP
Lisbon Treaty
Pending for 2009: Commission structure, Budget/EDF, EPAs, future of the ACP

4. Is this the end of the beginning?

6. Elephant issues driving the development agenda
New actors: China, India, and the analytics of globalisation
New securities: energy and other
Global public goods, including climate change

8. Implication for governments?

9. The exam question: will there be a European comparative advantage – and a reform agenda?
Values
Policies
Structures
Programmes
Implementation
N.B
Positive questions
Normative questions

10. Four scenarios for European Development Cooperation
Less Pro-poor
More Pro-poor
Nations

11. Europe
RETROGRESSION
PROGRESSION
Less Pro-poor
More Pro-poor
SECESSION
COMPRESSION
Nations

12. The research commitment
(a) The story-teller
(b) The networker
The international think-tank in the modern age is
A think tank . . .
Working internationally . . .
In the modern age!
Take each of those aspects in turn.
A think-tank works at the inter-face of research and policy. It is distinguished from a research organisation or a campaigning organisation by
A commitment to research and to evidence-based policy-making;
A determination to generate attractive ‘narratives’ which are relevant to policy;
Engagement with policy-makers and other stake-holders in the design, implementation and dissemination of work programmes;
A commitment to work with those who implement policy, the ‘street-level bureaucrats’ and the private sector.
An understanding of and willingness to engage with policy-making processes and timetables.
Some think-tanks are ‘independent’, others have a political affiliation.
The slide shows my own representation of the four styles of policy entrepreneurship relevant to a think-tank: (a) story-teller, (b) networker, (c) engineer, and (d) fixer.
(c) The engineer
(d) The fixer 12

13. The policy commitment?