Notes

² Alliance to Refound Governance in Africa

³ French Ministry for Foreign and European Affairs

⁴ Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation

⁵ The proceedings of the colloquium “Between tradition and modernity: which governance for Africa” are available at <www.institut-gouvernance.org>. This meeting was organised by IRG, CEPIA [Centre for Political and Institutional expertise in Africa] and ARGA in January 2007 with the support of MAEE and FPH. It brought together about thirty participants, the majority from West Africa, but also from north and South Africa, as well as some European participants. Some outside official observers, serving in Mali or coming from their headquarters,also participated in the colloquium. The colloquium served as a starting point for a more long term process, later defined as the Round for debate and reflections on governance in Africa, bringing together the setting up of research projects (in particular in the context of the thematic groups organised by ARGA) and the dissemination of analysis.

⁶ IRG-ARGA. “Between tradition and modernity: which governance for Africa?”. Proceedings of the Bamako Colloquium. Bamako-Mali. 23-25 January 2007. pp 9-10.

⁷ Endorsed 2 March 2005, the Paris Declaration is an international agreement to which over one hundred ministers, heads of agencies and other senior officials agreed, committing their countries and organisations to continue to increase efforts in harmonisation, alignment and managing aid for results with a set of monitorable actions and indicators.

⁸ See “Governance in the European consensus on development: towards a harmonised approach within the European Union.” <europa.eu/legislation_summaries/development/sectoral_development_policies/r13012_fr.htm>

⁹ South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe.

¹⁰ In association with Modus Operandi.