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Shaping a Progressive Agenda of EU’s Development Cooperation - A Critical Examination of NDICI-Global Europe Implementing Acts - 9 April 2024

2 Apr 2024

The objectives are twofold: (i) to evaluate both the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and areas of intervention prioritized in key sections of the documents (Summary, Indicative Activities, Objectives, and Expected Results) along with related budget allocations, and (ii) to assess the relevance of progressive priorities, particularly in promoting human development and combating poverty and ine. [...] The use of TM and ML techniques facilitates the processing and analysis of large volumes of unstructured text data, enabling the extraction of insights within the AAP 6 The remaining 35 countries of the total 124 for which AAPs are available on the two reference websites are countries whose documents do not have a sufficiently well-standardized structure to be analyzed by Text Mining and Machine L. [...] In addition, it is possible to distinguish the presence and frequency of labels in the different sections of the documents and compare the differences or, as illustrated here, it is possible to combine the data of all the sections of a document and have what in jargon is called a ‘unique fingerprint’ of the ‘implementation modes’ 17 3.5 Analysis of ‘target groups’ Fig. [...] 8 – Main ‘target groups’ of EC interventions in terms of frequency and EC funding (above 3% of the total) – Scanned Plans sample, 2021-2023 The distributional impact of the programs can often be observed through the ‘target groups’ identified in the AAPs, indicating the primary beneficiaries or stakeholders of the development cooperation initiatives. [...] The analysis of the role played by the Global Getaway initiative in the framework of European cooperation suffers from the lack of a single reference that systematizes the official information on the projects financed by the Global Getaway and provides details on the amounts allocated.

Authors

Marco Zupi

Pages
76
Published in
Italy