Practitioners' Network Weekly Newletter

This newsletter focusses on aspects of development cooperation within the relevant European Institutions. 

Short term mobility programme

A market place for staff secondments and offers for in-house training is opened on this website. ...more

Co-financing and delegated co-operation

Members try to implement delegated Co-operation and sharing of tasks or harmonised approaches in their commonly financed operations, for a greater efficiency and in the spirit of the Paris Declaration. ...more

EPAs and Development

Practitioners propose to define support measures in order to enable the economic systems of regions concerned by Economic Partnership Agreements to get prepared to greater opening of borders. ...more

Relationships with the European Parliament

The Development Commission of the European Parliament has shown interest in having contacts with Practitioners in order to hear concrete views and experience on development-related issues. ...more

Links to Members' websites can be found on the relevant page (link below). You can also find here some recent development policy documents and useful or interesting websites.  ...more

For support please write an email to info@dev-practitioners.eu or use our contact form. ...more

Members of the network

The Network is open to all European Agencies and Administrations involved in the implementation of ODA.

Its current members are the implementing organisations of the European Commission and of European countries representing over 70% of the ODA of the European Union. 

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Activities

We have identified a limited number of broad issues which we have considered relevant for collaboration between practitioners on a relatively long term. This is why we have created thematic working groups. Thematic groups propose joint works on specific issues within their domain and coordinate other initiatives related to that overall theme.

But our activities are not limited to the already defined themes. We want to remain flexible and the Network can support any initiative or request by one member to organise meetings, workshops, secondments or whatever solution to work together on a particular issue or project which is relevant for European development practitioners.

2012/2013 Annual Report of the Network

The Network's Annual Report was issued in May 2013 and gives information about Network Membership, Network Management and Strategic Orientation, Network Activities, Financial Aspects and the Way Ahead. 

Annual Meeting 2013

The next Annual Meeting will be hosted by GIZ and held in Berlin on 16/17 April 2013 in the local GIZ representation.

You can find documents related to the Annual Meeting including the programme and logistical information here: ...more

Last Steering Committee meeting

A Steering Committee meeting was held on 18 March 2013 in Brussels and followed by a phone conference on 4 April. Both Meetings dealt mainly with the management and long-term mode of functioning of the Network, i.e. the staffing and organisation of a new Brussels-based Coordination Office, the study on intensifying cooperation, an exchange with the Commission on knowledge management and knowledge sharing, and the preparation of the Annual Meeting 2013. 

Thematic Group "Results-based Approaches" Meeting on 23rd May 2013

Thematic Group "Implementation of European Division of Labour" Meeting in June 2013, Brussels

Workshop on Knowledge Sharing in June 2013, organised by DG DEVCO in Brussels

Thematic Group "Sustainable Energy" Meeting in October 2013 in Vienna

Practitioners' Network Members' Open Courses of Learn4Dev

Many member agencies of the Practitioners' Network are equally a member of the Learn4Dev Network. Lern4Dev is to promote improved aid effectiveness for poverty reduction through enhanced donor co-operation in the field of competence development and training. Lern4Dev Open Courses are available for other members staff at the same conditions as for their own staff.  ...more

Thematic Group Climate Change meeting on 12 December 2012 in Paris, organised by KfW and AfD

On 12 December 2012 KfW invited to a seminar organised by AFD in Paris on "Energy Access". ...more

Thematic Group 'Results Based Approaches' - Workshop on 26 November 2012 in Brussels

GIZ invited to a seminar discussing the objectives and the future programm of the group as well as experiences with RBA from the ground. ...more

Thematic Group 'Implementation of European Division of Labour' - meeting on 20 November 2012 in Brussels

AFD Brussels invited to a seminar focussing on delegated cooperation.
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Thematic Group Climate Change meeting on "Energy Access", organised on 28 March 2012 by KfW

KfW Frankfurt Office invited to a meeting covering "Energy Access: Past/Current Activities and Lessons Learned", "Measuring Impact: Methods, Problems and Challenges", "Subsidies: A Blessing or a Curse", and "Public and Private in Partnership: Is there a Role for the Private Sector?" ...more

Busan Partnership and EU Agenda for Change - What are the major challenges arising for development partners? Workshop organised by LuxDev, 20 March 2012 in Brussels

In the premises of BTC, 26 practitioners from 12 different organisations came together to discuss the major challenges arising from the Busan Partnership and the Agenda for Change for their institution. Issues to be tackled by the Network (Thematic Groups and Core Group) were discussed and prioritised, to be approved during the coming Annual Meeting in April 2012. The workshop ended with a kick-off session of the new Thematic Group on "Results-Based Approaches" led by GIZ. 

Workshop on Mediterranean Cooperation, organised by AECID, 25 October 2011 in Brussels

The well-attended workshop gathered participants from 8 different European agencies. Objectives of the WS were: a) the agencies will inform each other about respective projects, strategies and reflexions about future actions/positioning in the region, b) identification of common issues c) an informal exchange about possible collaboration / complementarities between agencies.  

Events before 2012

The events and workshops of the different thematic groups before 2012 can be found on the pages of the respective group. Below please find a link to the workshops on other subjects: ...more