‘Effectiveness, efficiency and results of EU aid for sustainable development’, Brussels - Main contents
| date | January 22, 2020 14:30 |
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| city | Brussels, Belgium |
| location | Paul-Henri Spaak building (PHS) i  |
| attending | J.P. (Jutta) Urpilainen i et al. |
| organisation | Committee on Development (DEVE) i |
On Wednesday 22 January 2020, the Committee on Development (DEVE) will hold a public hearing on effectiveness, efficiency and results of EU aid for sustainable development with experts, including 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 would be 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.
Location: Paul-Henri Spaak 5B001
Last updated: 20-01-2020
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Public Hearing DRAFT PROGRAMME
‘Effectiveness, efficiency and results of EU aid for sustainable
organised by the
Committee on Development (DEVE)
Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14h30 - 17h00 European Parliament, Brussels, room Paul-Henri Spaak 5B001
14:30 Welcome and introductory remarks
Tomas Tobé, Chair of the Committee on Development
Moderator: Hildegard Bentele, MEP
14:40 ‘Reviewing the development effectiveness practice and principles’
Thomas Gass, Co-Chair of the Global Partnership for
Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) and Assistant Director
General Swiss Agency of Development and Cooperation (SDC)
14:50 ‘Dynamics and challenges for development effectiveness - the donors
perspective ’
Susanna Moorehead, Chair of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
15:00 Q&A session
15:40 ‘Realities of development aid and challenges for effectiveness - views
from the South’
Vitalice Meja, consultative Co-Chair of GPEDC and Executive Director of the civil society network “Reality of Aid Africa”
15:50 Q&A session
16:10 ‘Effectiveness to Impact - Study on the application of the effectiveness
principles’ (Video presentation by Andrew Benfield)
16:15 ‘Undermining or stepping up development effectiveness ’
Jean Letitia Saldanha, Director of the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodat)
16:25 Q&A session
16:45
Concluding discussion and remarks by Hildegard Bentele, MEP
The Parliamentary Committee on Development is responsible for: