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Africa-EU Partnership: Strengthening Statistical Cooperation for Inclusive Development

The Africa-EU Partnership aims to enhance statistical cooperation to support inclusive development. This includes strengthening the African Statistical System, improving data quality, and promoting harmonization of statistics. Learn more at africa-eu-partnership.org.

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Africa-EU Partnership: Strengthening Statistical Cooperation for Inclusive Development

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  1. The Africa-EU Partnership Statistical cooperation Fabio Di Stefano DG DEVCO.D.3 4 April 2019

  2. The Africa-EU Partnership • The Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES): strategic document launched at the Lisbon Summit in 2007 • Regular Heads of States and Government Summits: 2000 (Cairo), 2007 (Lisbon), 2010 (Tripoli), 2014 (Brussels) and 2017 (Abidjan) • Future relationships to be discussed and decided within the framework of the negotiations on the future ACP-EU Partnership (Post-Cotonou negotiations)

  3. The Africa-EU Partnership 5th AU-EU Summit(Abidjan) Africa-EU Ministerial meeting (Brussels) High level meeting (Vienna) Nov. 2017 May 2018 Sept.2018 Oct.2018 Dec.2018 Jan.2019 Africa–Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs Political Declaration PanAfricanMultiAnnual programme 2018-2020 PanAfricanAnnual Action Programme 2018

  4. The Africa-EU Partnership • PoliticalDeclaration of the 5th AU-EU Summit (November 2017, Abidjan), 4 joint strategic priorities: • Investing in people – education, science, technology and skills development • Strengthening Resilience, Peace, Security and Governance • Migration and mobility • Mobilising Investments for African structural and sustainable transformation

  5. “Africa-Europe Alliance forSustainable Investment and Jobs” The “Africa-Europe Alliance” (September 2018) sets out the European Commission’s economic strategy for EU-Africa economic relations for the years to come • It aims to promote a substantial increase of private investment in Africa, boost trade, enhance job creation and contribute to sustainable and inclusive development. • The EU ambition is to generate 10 million new jobs in Africa in the next 5 years. #AUEU

  6. Africa–Europe Alliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs 4 main strands: • Boosting strategic investments for job creation and strengthening the role of the private sector • Investing in people by investing in education and skills • Strengthening business environment and investment climate • Tapping the full potential of economic integration and trade

  7. Future ACP-EU Partnership Proposed new structure A foundation agreement at ACP level, in combination with 3 regional partnerships

  8. PanAfrican Programme (PanAf) • Purpose: • provide dedicated support to the AU-EU strategic partnership • deliversupon the prioritiesestablished at the AU-EU Summits • Key Principles: • Promote cross-regional, continental and global cooperation • Support mutual interest and shared values • Complementarity with other EU funding instruments

  9. PanAfrican Programme (PanAf) PANAF 2018-2020 : • Total amount: EUR 400 million • 3 priority areas: • Political dialogue and Pan-Africangovernance (EUR 105 million) • Investing in People – education, science, technology and skills (EUR 135 million) • Continental economicintegration (EUR 160 million)

  10. PanAfrican Programme (PanAf) PANAF 2018-2020 : Pan-African governance Contribute towards the development of an accountable, responsive and effective system of good governance at the Pan-African level To enhance institutional and statistical capacity in the African Statistical System (ASS), building on the Strategy for Harmonisation of Statistics in Africa (SHaSA II). Strengthening the ASS is crucial to produce and disseminate high-quality and harmonised statistics. Qualitative statistical information at continental level is essential to assist in the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of integration policies for inclusive development.

  11. Challenges of the African Statistical System • Big demand for qualitative statistics to underpin national policies, regional/continental (African Integration - African Continental Free Trade Area ) and international purposes (SDGs monitoring) • Systemic problems within African Statistical System to face this demand: • low level of resources/capacity • low priority compared to other parts of government; • poor coordination with other parts of the ASS – the coordination and governance mechanisms exist under SHaSA II, but challenging to make it work • Setting up a credible and independent African Institute for Statistics - STATAFRIC

  12. Thankyou for your attention For more information on the Africa-EU Partnership: http://www.africa-eu-partnership.org/

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