Division 7 Complementarity

EPAs and the development strategies of ACP partners shall be mutually supportive. In particular, in order to facilitate the achievement of the objectives of EPAs, the ACP parties will undertake to fully integrate EPAs within their development strategies and the European Union to do likewise within its development co-operation strategies. This would encompass fostering support to the private sector development, in particular micro, small and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs), including its gender dimension and stressing the importance of the collection of gender disaggregated data for the follow-up and implementation. The parties will undertake to allocate adequate resources for that purpose within the national and regional indicative programmes, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Cotonou Agreement and the relevant provisions of its successor agreement, once applicable.