Opportunities for circular textiles exports to the EU: The case of Kenya
14 June 2023, 11:00–12:30
Online
The global fashion and apparel industry is often associated with environmental degradation, waste, pollution, and human rights and labour issues across the value chain. The EU aims to transition towards a circular model not to only address the negative impacts caused by the existing linear system, but also promote a more resilient and inclusive fashion industry that takes into account human wellbeing. The recent Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles is an EU initiative to move towards a greener and more circular textile sector. In practice, it includes an increasing set of sustainability-linked standards and requirements for businesses outside the EU to access the EU Single Market.
InfoPoint Hybrid Conference: Evaluation of the EU Cooperation with Somalia
7 June 2023
InfoPoint and online
In late 2021 the Directorate-General for International Partnerships (INTPA) of the European Commission contracted for an external evaluation in order to arrive at an independent assessment of the EU cooperation with Somalia and to learn from past experience.
ACCELERATING THE GREAT GREEN WALL: FOSTERING THE AFRICA-EUROPE PARTNERSHIP FOR A JUST RURAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE SAHEL
25 May, 2023
This high-level conference on May 25th 2023 has built on the international momentum around the GGWI and followed up on the One Planet Summit, the 6th AU-EU Heads of State Summit and international conferences such as the Biodiversity, Desertification and Climate COPs.
Digitalisation and Democracy: Is the African Union ready?
8 June 2023 from 14:00-15:30 PM CET
Webinar
On 8 June 2023 from 14:00-15:30 PM CET, at the backdrop of the commemoration of the 60th year anniversary of OAU/AU, ECDPM in partnership with the African Charter Project are hosting a webinar on digital transformation and political governance in Africa.
Africa-Europe cooperation: A dialogue on digitalisation
7 June 2023 from 15:00 – 18:00 CET (16:00 - 19:00 EAT)
Hybrid
On 7 June 2023 from 15:00 – 18:00 CET (16:00 - 19:00 EAT), ECDPM will co-organise a joint hybrid event in Addis Ababa and online with European Union Delegation to the African Union, the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Addis Ababa and Permanent Mission to the AU, the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Policy Center for the New South (PCNS) to take stock of recent advances and continued challenges in digitalisation in an Africa-Europe context and to identify ways to partner.
Book Presentation | African Peacekeeping
Friday May 19, 2023, from 12:00 to 13:30
Online & Face-to-Face. Room 24.009 (Ground Floor). Mercè Rodoreda 24 building. UPF Ciutadella
Chair: Martijn Vlaskamp, Assistant Professor and Juan de la Cierva Incorporación Research Fellow at IBEI
Discussants:
Oscar Mateos, Associate Professor at the Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations (Universitat Ramon Llull). He has published and edited several books and articles on conflict analysis, post-conflict peacebuilding processes and development challenges, mainly focused on Africa.
Viviane Ogou, Founder and president of the youth organization/think-tank “La Puerta de África” (Gateway to Africa). IBEI Alumni (Master's in International Security 2020 - 2022). Specializing in the Sahel crisis and EU-Africa relations, Viviane has a special interest in military operations and peace-building processes.
Africa Digital Conference 2023
London / Online
Thursday 18 May 2023
Details
Join the SSCG Africa Digital Conference 2023 on Thursday May 2023 between 10:00 - 15:00 GMT in London and Virtual to learn and hear from our speakers, experts and industry leaders. Join us to connect with like minded business leaders, investors and entrepreneurs, to gain latest market updates and industry development, insights, perspectives, strategies and practical best practices. oin our discussion on African digital economy, investment opportunities, banking and financial, inclusion, big data, cyber security, tech innovation solutions.
Keeping human development on the EU’s agenda in a new geopolitical era
30 May 2023, 14:30 - 16:00
Online
ECDPM hosts a webinar to look at the EU’s support to human development in a world of polycrisis. The event aims at bringing together actors from Brussels and partner countries – namely Kenya, Guinea and Zambia – to discuss the opportunities and challenges in the cooperation between the EU and the partner countries in human development sectors.
Civil Society Dialogue meeting on the evaluation of the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): draft inception report
31 May 2023, 14:00 CEST - 16:00 CEST
Webex
The EU-SADC EPA is a development-oriented free trade agreement between the EU and six countries from the Southern African Development Community (SADC): Botswana, Eswatini (previously Swaziland), Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa. It was signed on 10 June 2016 and entered into provisional application on 10 October 2016 for all Parties to the Agreement, except for Mozambique, for which it entered into provisional application on 4 February 2018. Angola participated in the negotiations of the EU-SADC EPA, but eventually did not sign the Agreement. In February 2020 Angola submitted a request to join the EPA and negotiations for Angola’s accession are expected to be launched soon.
43rd Session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
24-28 June, 2023
Brussels
There will be three keynote debates on:
· Critical raw materials, energy transition and climate change in the EU-ACP cooperation
· Hybrid threats
· Reform of the United Nations Security Council
Two urgent topics with accompanying resolutions will also be debated and voted:
· The humanitarian and security situation in Haiti
· The humanitarian situation in OACPS countries affected by terrorism.
As usual, there will also be statements and question times with the Commission and the EU and the ACP council.
The Agenda will be adopted by the Bureau 25 June, but you can find the draft agenda here.