About
this review

• Examiners: Japan, Norway
• Field visit: Chad, Peru (Annex C)
• Next peer review due: 2017

EU's
peer review history

Implementation of
peer review recommendations

Since the 2007 peer review, the EU institutions have taken positive steps to make the programme more effective and increase its impact. These steps include major organisational restructuring; efforts to streamline financial instruments; and a strategic approach to making co-operation more co-ordinated and aligned. They have also enhanced their dialogue with civil society.

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Structured dialogue with civil society for an efficient development partnership

The structured dialogue was conceived as a consensus-building mechanism involving four main categories of stakeholders: the European Parliament; the Member States; CSOs and local authorities; and the European Commission. While responding to requests coming from the European Court of Auditors, Parliament and CSOs, the structured dialogue was also an answer to the Accra Agenda for Action, which called for supporting the capacity of CSOs to take an active role in dialogue on development policy, and for engaging further with them as development actors in their own right. The 14 month process comprised four regional seminars for both CSOS and local authorities, Brussels-based sessions, and two supporting initiatives, one on human rights and democracy and one on development education and awareness raising. This culminated in a final meeting in Budapest in May 2011, where conclusions and recommendations to partner governments, CSOs, to local authorities, and to the EU were endorsed.

The dialogue has reached a consensus on the most pertinent needs of CSOs and local authorities that will be supported by the EU. Subsequent discussions focused on how to best adapt existing delivery mechanisms and on alternative future mechanisms for effectively supporting CSOs and local authorities in their respective roles and ambitions as development actors. (Box 1.2)

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