European
Development Days
Brussels - 16-17 October 2012
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Main Theme: Supporting Inclusive
and Sustainable Growth
• Development cooperation should be a catalyst
for partner countries’ own growth
• Imperative to promote a growth inclusive
(in which most people can participate in or benefit from)
and sustainable (not harmful for future generations)
Brussels
16-17 October 2012
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Main Theme: Supporting Inclusive
and Sustainable Growth
• Actions to be undertaken at 3 levels:
1. Foundations for inclusive growth e.g. social protection,
health & education
2. Drivers for growth and job creation e.g. business environment,
regional integration
3. Sectors with strong multiplier impact and that contribute
to environmental protection & climate change
prevention/adaptation
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub themes of the 2012 EDDs
1. Development, agriculture and food security
2. Engaging the private sector for development
3. Empowering people for inclusive growth
STAKEHOLDERS WILL BE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT
PROPOSALS FOR PANELS BASED ON THE GENERAL
THEME AND ON THREE SUBTHEMES
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub-Theme 1– Development, agriculture
and food security - Context
• Agriculture is the backbone of developing countries
economies and poverty is predominant in rural areas
• Coherence of EU internal agricultural policies with
development cooperation objectives (PCD): the role of the
Common Agricultural Policy
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub-Theme 1– Development, agriculture
and food security – Possible topics
• Added value of agricultural research and technology transfer;
• Promoting the role of public private partnership in
agriculture;
• Role of food markets and trade;
• Secure and equitable access to land;
• Resilient and sustainable intensification;
• Addressing the needs of rural women.
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub-Theme 2 – Engaging the private
sector for development - Context
• Importance of making private sector a partner in
development recognised in Agenda for Change and at Busan
HLF
• Need to leverage private funding for meeting global
challenges, and achieving inclusive and sustainable growth
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub-Theme 2 – Engaging the private
sector for development - Objectives
• EDDs 2012 as forum for discussion of innovative models
and new approaches to private-public collaboration;
• Stimulate discussion among private, public and civil society
actors about their respective roles and collaboration in
development
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub-Theme 2 – Engaging the private
sector for development
• Possible topics for coverage in panels:
• Joint private-public action and dialogue for more effective
economic policy making.
• New form of industrial policy for developing countries.
• Merits and limits of mobilizing private sector funding for
development through blending of grants and loans.
• Role of the private sector in transition to a green economy
• Inclusive business models for improving the conditions
of households and workers at the "base of the pyramid".
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub theme 3 – Empowering people for
inclusive growth
• Objectives:
• EDDs 2012 as forum for discussion of innovative
models and new approaches to supporting
1. Productive employment, decent work for all
and improved employability
2. Social protection in support of inclusive growth
• Stimulate discussion among private, public and
civil society actors about their respective roles
and collaboration in development
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16-17 October 2012
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Sub theme 3 – Empowering people for
inclusive growth
• Possible topics for coverage in panels
• Supporting good practices in addressing informality
and informal employment
• Social protection in the informal sector
• Role of the private sector in employment and
in social protection
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16-17 October 2012
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EDD 2012 – Agenda Structure
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2 Opening & Closing (plenary format)
4 special addresses (plenary format)
15 High-Level Panels
Other events: press conferences, report and project
presentations, working and informal public meetings,
brainstorming sessions…
Brussels
16-17 October 2012
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EDD 2012 – Event Submission Form
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Shorter sessions: 90 minutes maximum
Linking explicitely event proposals to the themes
Event Description Form (2 pages)
Three selection criteria for HLPs
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16-17 October 2012
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EDD 2012 – Criteria 1 – Content Approach
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Need to collaborate on mobilising content together
Supporting evidence: reports, studies, graphs and charts
Photo and video archive
Interviews, posts and articles on the EDD website
Weighting 40% (3 pages maximum)
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16-17 October 2012
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EDD 2012 – Criteria 2 –
Communication Strategy
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Need to collaborate on communicating together
Clearly identifying targets, channels and messages
Synergies in social media and media efforts
EDD promotion
Weighting 40% (3 pages maximum)
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16-17 October 2012
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EDD 2012 – Criteria 3 – Inclusiveness
• Speakers: Gender & North-South balance
• Organising stakeholders: Diversity in organisation type
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EDD 2012 – Event Submission Calendar
• 23 May: Deadline for submission of HLP proposals
by stakeholders
• 11 June: Decision regarding the HLP proposals
communicated by the European Commission
• Early September: Second stakeholder meeting
and presentation of the HLPs by stakeholders
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