Development Assistance Operators from the EU New Member States

Many European Union New Member States (NMS) have recently shifted from being recipients of development assistance to a role of international donors. The conference "Development Assistance Operators from the EU New Member States: Experiences, Trends and Challenges" was one of the events of the Slovenian Presidency of the European Union Council. It took place in Ljubljana from June 3 – 4, 2008 and was organised by the Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF), Centre for European Perspective (CEP), Foundation “TOGETHER” and International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance (ITF).

The aim was to examine the need of NMS to (re)design their development assistance policies and to explore best practices of institutional arrangements for the assistance implementation. The conference agenda also included discussion on sector and geographic advantages of Development Assistance Operators from NMS and their greatest challenge to design development cooperation with developing countries, especially with the least developed ones.

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Download the final conference report from: http://www.cef-see.org/oda/ODA_NMS_conference_final_report.pdf

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