James MackieCollege of Europe · Department of International Relations
James Mackie
PhD Geography
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
May 2002 - September 2020
ECDPM
Position
- various
Description
- I worked at ECDPM as a Head of Programme and then as Head of Learning and Quality Support. For 8 months in 2018 I served as Acting Director of the Centre.
January 2006 - present
Position
- Professor
Description
- Course on EU & International Development as part of the Masters on European International Relations & Diplomacy
Education
October 1978 - December 1982
Publications
Publications (17)
The UN 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals includes SDG 10 on Reducing Inequalities as well as a commitment to Leave No-One Behind (LNOB). The European Union (EU) committed itself to achieving these goals both internally and, through its new 2017 European Consensus on Development, to support partners in their achievement worldwide. Th...
The EU’s 2007 Code of Conduct on Complementarity and Division of Labour (DoL) seeks to improve the way the EU member states and institutions work together on development cooperation. This agreement is the cornerstone of the EU’s efforts to reduce aid fragmentation. Mackie uses available data to assess the EU’s efforts to implement the Code. Focussi...
http://ecdpm.org/multimedia/universality-differentiation-post2015/
Key Messages
Translating the universal post-2015 goals and targets into national actions, commitments, responsibilities and accountability that respect national priorities and circumstances is a major challenge.
There is a need for a pragmatic and flexible differentiation system that accounts for country priorities and ownership, but builds in inc...
2014 offers significant milestones for EU-Africa relations with the last push on achieving some of the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the post-2015 framework debate and the 4th Africa-EU Summit. If 2014 is to be a year to reap fruitful and sustainable EU-Africa relations, it is reliant on strong leadership in both continents. The 4th...
The ERD 2013 was commissioned and published by the European Commission, and written by a team of researchers at three international development research institutes: ECDPM in Maastricht, DIE/GDI in Bonn and ODI in London. The Report aims to provide an independent contribution to the post-2015 debate by focussing on how global collective action can s...
The changes made to the Cotonou Agreement in its first formal Review in 2005 are considered. Although some of these, to the political dimensions chapter of Cotonou, may appear to fundamentally alter the EU-ACP relationship, the author argues that it is the changes to the management of the EDF that are likely to have the more important long-term imp...
