Living Apart Together Geert Laporte amp Alfonso Medinilla 12 January 2017 Outline The EU in the development and humanitarian landscape The EU and the HumanitarianDevelopment Nexus ID: 630179
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EU Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid
‘Living
Apart Together’Geert Laporte & Alfonso Medinilla12 January 2017Slide2
Outline
The EU in the development and humanitarian landscape
The EU and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus:
an impressive policy framework with a long history Rapidly evolving reality calls for more synergies between both worldsKey questions for the debateSlide3
Leading donor in both humanitarian aid and development cooperation
“Payer, not a player”
Increasing calls for greater coherence and synergies between
short-term humanitarian interventions and long-term structural focus (“root causes”) 1. The EU in the development and humanitarian landscapeSlide4
Two dominant visionsSlide5
2. The EU and the Humanitarian
-Development Nexus:
an impressive policy framework with a long historySlide6
3.1. Gradual maturation of the EU’s policy
frameworkSlide7
3.2. Policy pillarsSlide8
Three DGs of the Commission ( DEVCO, NEAR, ECHO) + EEAS
Specific mandates and priorities
Multiplication of
programmes and financing instrumentsNew approaches that span development cooperation and humanitarian aid: EUTFsOverall trend from aid-centered architecture to political and crisis management architecture
3.3. A complex EU institutional architecture to deal with crisis and fragilitySlide9
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. Rapidly evolving
reality calls for more synergies between
both worlds Slide10
3.1 Increasingly blurred
lines
Changing nature of crisis and conflict (more protracted and internal)
Spectacular increase of humanitarian needs90% of humanitarian appeals longer than 3 years –average 7 years
Source: ODI 2015
Gradual expansion of temporal and functional scope of humanitarian mandate: multi-year planning, relief operations, diversity of actors, services (e.g. education), etc.
Need to review the conceptual and institutional divisions that underpin the EU’s humanitarian and development actions?Slide11
Refugee and migration crises
New levels of urgency and need for political responses (e.g. Turkey)
Redefined context for relief and humanitarian aid:
EU humanitarian aid inside the EU and (transit) partner countries New impetus for the resilience agenda (EU Trust Funds)3.2. 2016 a pivotal year for the EU abroad: time to rethink its approach?Slide12
EU development cooperation but also humanitarian aid have become less of a technical issue and more a political one
EU Strategic interests have moved to the forefront, which may complicate principled humanitarian action
Growing ambiguity and interdependence between humanitarian and development objectives as the nature of crisis changes
UN and EU strategic documents gradually abandon the distinction between humanitarian and development interventions, yet separate institutions and ‘communities’ are maintained in the funding and organizational architecture3.3. Four key trends at stakeSlide13
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Key questions
for the debateSlide14
How to combine a more political and pragmatic approach to situations of fragility while maintaining a principled and impartial approach to sensitive humanitarian emergencies
?
Towards a single strategic approach (integration) or ‘coordination’ or ‘complementarity’ model
s?What level of ‘joined-up approach’ between humanitarian aid and development cooperation is feasible and desirable?
Question 1: How to ensure greater strategic coherence between humanitarian and development interventions? Slide15
What are the major bottlenecks at the operational level between humanitarian aid and development agencies?
How to break down silos in practice? What could be done to overcome vested interests in both the development and humanitarian communities (institutions, international organizations, civil society)?
How to
incentivise effective coordination and more convergence?Question 2: How to ensure greater operational coherence and interagency coordination?Slide16
Does the EU have the necessary and adequate financial instruments for tackling the new challenges?
What could be the impact of Post
Cotonou
(e.g. possible budgetisation of EDF) and the mid-term review of the MFF (and next MFF) on the external financing architecture? How will the EU funding landscape evolve towards 2020? What will be the risks and opportunities?Question 3: Is the EU’s existing range of financial instruments well suited for engaging in situations of fragility and protracted crisis? Slide17
Thank you!
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