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Acronym List

Acronym List

ACET

Africa Centre for Economic Transformation 

ACP

Africa, Caribbean and Pacific 

ADA

Austrian Development Agency

AFD

Agence Française de Développement 

AfDB

African Development Bank

AFIM

Africa Facility for Inclusive Markets  (UNDP)

AfT

Aid for Trade

AGA

African Governance Architecture 

AGI

Africa Governance Institute (Dakar-based)

ANND

Arab NGO Network for Development 

APSA

African Peace and Security Architecture 

AUC

African Union Commission 

BIDPA

Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis

BMGF

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

BMZ

Ministry of Development Cooperation (Germany)

BRICS

Brazil, Russia, India and China 

CAADP

Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme

CAP

Common Policy on Agriculture

CEEI/ISRI

Centre for Strategic and International Studies of the Higher Institute for International Relations 

CEUMC

Canada-EU Mining Council

CFP

Common Policy on Fisheries

CFTA

Continental Free Trade Area 

CODEV

EU Council’s Working Party on Development Cooperation 

COMESA

Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa 

CPPM

Conflict Prevention, Peacebuilding and Mediation division

CSIS

Centre for Strategic and International Studies

DBSA

Development Bank of Southern Africa

DCED

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development 

DCI

Development Cooperation Instrument 

DEFINE

Development Finance Network (OECD) 

DEVCO

Directorate General Development and Cooperation

DFID

Department for International Development

DGIS

Directorate General for International Cooperation

DIE-GDI

German Development Institute

DIIS

Danish Institute of International Relations 

EAC

East African Community

EAFF

East African Farmers Federation

EARN

Europe-Africa Policy Research Network

ECCAS

Economic Community for Central African States

ECOWAS

Economic Community of West African States

EDD

European Development Days 

EDF

European Development Fund 

EEAS

European External Action Service

EED

European Endowment Fund 

EPA

Economic Partnership Agreement 

EPLO

European Peacebuilding Liaison Office

ERD

European Report on Development

EU

European Union

EU-DG

Directorates General of the EU

Eurodad

European Network on Debt and Development

FANRPAN

Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network 

FAO

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FPI

Service for Foreign Policy Instruments 

FTA

Free Trade Area

GDI 

German Development Institute, also DIE-GDI 

GREAT

Governance, Regional Integration, Economics, Agriculture and Trade 

GSP

Generalised System of Preferences 

ICGLR

International Conference on the Great Lakes Region

IDEA

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

IEEI

Strategic and International Studies 

IFC

International Finance Corporation

IGAD

Intergovernmental Authority on Development

IIR-UWI

Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies 

ILEAP

International Lawyers and Economists Against Poverty 

IMAKE

Information Management and Knowledge Exchange 

IMFV

Instituto Mârques de Valle Flôr  

INCAF

International Network on Conflict and Fragility 

ISS

Institute for Security Studies

JAES

Joint Africa-EU Strategy 

JICA

Japan International Cooperation Agency 

JPA

Joint Parliamentary Assembly  (ACP-EU) 

KM&C

Knowledge management and communications

LMRC

Levy Mwanawasa Regional Centre for Democracy

MDGs

Millennium Development Goals 

MFF

Multiannual Financial Framework (European Commission)

MOU

Memorandum of understanding

NEPAD

New Partnership for Africa's Development

NETRIS

Network of Regional Integration Studies

NPCA

NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency

OA

Observatoire de l’Afrique

ODA

Official development assistance 

ODI

Overseas Development Institute 

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

PAP

Pan-African Programme

PBSB?

International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding 

PROPAC

Plateforme Sous-régionale des Organisations Paysannes d'Afrique Centrale

RECs

Regional economic communities

RMCA

Regional Multidisciplinary Centre of Excellence of COMESA 

ROPPA

Network of Farmers’ and Agricultural Producers’ Organisations of West Africa

SACAU

Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions

SADC

Southern Africa Development Community

SAGCOT

Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania

SAIIA

South African Institute of International Affairs 

SDC

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

SEF

Development and Peace Foundation

TRAPCA

Trade Policy Training Centre in Africa 

TTI

Think Tank Initiative

UNCCD

UN Convention to Combat Desertification 

UNDP

United Nations Development Programme

UNECA

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

UNU-CRIS

UN University Institute for Comparative Regional Integration Studies

UWI

University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago)

WGC

World Gold Council  

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