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Sectoral development policies

Within the framework of development cooperation the Union places the emphasis on a number of areas where solutions have been tailored to the needs of developing countries on the basis of the relevant comparative advantage, which involve not only economic and social development and governance but also the environment food security, agriculture and infrastructure.

This thematic, cross-sectoral approach, particularly highlighted in the "European Consensus on Development", also aims to ensure cohesion between European policies and the development priorities which might be affected by those policies.

• GOVERNANCE, HUMAN RIGHTS, RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY
  • Governance
    • Governance in the consensus on development
    • Governance and development
    • Tax governance in developing countries
  • Human Rights
    • A financing instrument for the promotion of democracy and human rights in the world (2007 – 2013)
  • Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) and civil society
    • Local authorities and development assistance
    • Non-state Actors and Local Authorities
    • Cooperation with indigenous peoples
• HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Education and training
    • Investing in people
    • Education and training in the context of poverty reduction
  • Equality between men and women
    • Strategy for gender equality in development policy
  • Children
    • Children in EU external action
  • Health
    • The EU Role in Global Health
    • Health: health and poverty reduction
    • Programme for Action to combat lack of personnel in the health sector (2007-2013)
    • Compulsory licensing system for the production and export of generic medicinal products to developing countries
    • Programme for Action to Confront HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis (2007-2011)
    • Update on the EC Programme for Action - Accelerated action on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis
    • Health: programme for accelerated action on HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (2001-2006)
    • Essential medicines for developing countries (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria)
    • Health: global fund to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria
• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
  • Global partnership for sustainable development
  • Integrating sustainable development into Community cooperation policy
  • Strategy for sustainable developmentArchives
• ENVIRONMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
  • General
    • Environment and sustainable management of natural resources, including energy
    • United Nations Convention to combat desertification in countries seriously affected by drought
  • Climate change
    • Global climate change alliance
    • Climate change in the context of development cooperation
  • Biodiversity
    • Biodiversity Action Plan for Economic and Development Co-operation
    • The Rio de Janeiro Convention on biological diversity
  • Water
    • Water: water management in developing countries
    • Guidelines for cooperation towards development in the area of water resources
    • European Water Facility for the ACP countries
  • Energy
    • The Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund
    • Cooperation with Non-EU Member Countries on nuclear safety
    • Energy cooperation with the developing countries
    • ACP-EU Energy Facility
  • Forests
    • FLEGT Licensing scheme
    • Fight against illegal logging
    • Combating deforestation
  • Fisheries
    • Partnership agreements with Non-EU Member Countries
    • Fisheries: fisheries and poverty reductionArchives
• AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Agricultural commodities, dependence and poverty
  • Fighting rural poverty
  • Advancing African agriculture
  • Land policy in developing countries
  • Partnership with Africa for the development of the cotton industry
  • The International Coffee Agreement 2007
• FOOD SECURITY
  • Strategic framework for food security in developing countries
  • Facility for rapid response to soaring food pricesArchives
  • Combating hunger: strategy for food security
  • Food Aid Convention
• ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Supporting developing countries in coping with the crisis
  • Trade
    • Scheme of preferences from 2006 to 2015 - Guidelines
    • A scheme of generalised tariff preferences 2009-2011
    • Generalised System of Preferences 2006 - 2008Archives
    • Aid for Trade in developing countries
    • Towards an EU Aid for Trade strategy
    • Assisting developing countries to benefit from trade
    • Fair Trade and non-governmental trade-related sustainability assurance schemes
    • Fair tradeArchives
  • Businesses
    • International investments: towards a comprehensive European policy
    • EU support for business sector development in third countries
    • The reform of state-owned enterprises in developing countries
• INFRASTRUCTURE
  • Euro-African Partnership for infrastructure
  • Transport
    • Transport: guidelines
    • Promoting sustainable transport
  • Communication and information
    • Information and communication Technologies
  • Tourism
    • Development of sustainable tourism
• MIGRATION
  • Migration and development: some concrete orientations
  • Cooperation with Non-EU Member Countries in the areas of migration and asylum
• OTHER SECTORAL PROVISIONS
  • Mine Action Strategy 2005-2007Archives