“Internationalisation of national civil society policies” Donor Group on civil society and aid effectiveness Presentation 26 February 2010, Brussels
Jan 19, 2016
“Internationalisation of national civil society policies”
Donor Group on civil society and aid
effectiveness
Presentation 26 February 2010, Brussels
Background The road from Paris to Accra:
Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness
Recommendations: launch multi-
stakeholder process
Valuable to have donor group to learn and undertake common action (harmonisation)
Who? Linked to Work Stream of WP-EFF (DAC)
◦ Austria◦ Belgium◦ Canada◦ Denmark◦ European Commission◦ Finland◦ Ireland◦ Netherlands◦ Norway◦ Sweden◦ Switzerland◦ UK◦ USA◦ …(not exclusive)
Objectives Promote learning
Undertake collaborative action
Support and feed into the multi-stakeholder process
Monitor progress on the two CSO proposals (Better Aid Platform and Open Forum)
Key Common Themes for Learning and Action How best to fund CSOs
Roles of CSOs
Supporting and measuring more strategic CSO programming
Enabling environment
Principles Collaborate with other donor initiatives
(Nordic+, EC quadrilogue…)
Use and build on recommendations of the AG-CS
Work both formally and informally
Work cost-effectivelly
Concrete proposals Donor survey
Joint evaluation
Harmonisation of donor requirements
Enabling environment
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