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Civil Society Contact Group
The EU Civil Society Contact Group brings together seven large rights and value based NGO sectors – environment, social, development, women, culture, human rights and public health.
Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness
EU Coherence for Development - CONCORD/Evert Vermeer Foundation Programme
EU Coherence for Development - CONCORD/Evert Vermeer Foundation Programme
EU Policies that contradict or oppose its development commitments and objectives must end. This programme identifies incoherent EU policies and brings them to the attention of the European policymakers and suggest remedies.
TRIALOG - Strengthening development NGOs in the enlarged EU
TRIALOG is in charge of raising awareness of development issues in the enlarged EU and to strengthen dialogue and partnerships between development NGOs in accession countries, EU countries and developing countries.
DEEEP - Development Education Exchange in Europe Project
DEEEP's aim is to increase the capacity of European NGOs to deliver grassroots Development Education via methodological exchange, training, improved networking, elaboration of common policies and common projects.
Euforic - Europe's Forum on International Cooperation
Euforic is dedicated to development cooperation and humanitarian aid from the civil society prospective, offering: thematic and geographic information, actors, resources, directories, projects, jobs, agendas, forum, etc.
Global Call Against Poverty (GCAP)
The Global Call to Action against Poverty is a worldwide alliance committed to making world leaders live up to their promises, and to making a breakthrough on poverty.
It is an alliance around the common cause of ending poverty: existing coalitions, community groups, trade unions, individuals, religious and faith groups, campaigners and more.
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Trócaire Director Justin Kilcullen has been elected president of CONCORD for a second three-year term.
Following his reelection, Mr Kilcullen called on the European Union to renew its commitment to aid spending targets as poor countries face the full impact of the economic crisis. He said the European Commission must retain its Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid in any restructuring should the Lisbon Treaty be adopted. Read the press release.
Outside a meeting of European Development Ministers on 18 May European NGOs held a “Eurovision Aid Contest” exposing just how European Member States are really performing on their aid promises to developing countries.
The song performers, wearing the masks of the heads of government of these four countries – Sweden, Spain, Austria and Italy - faced a jury from Europe and developing countries. Italy and Austria were issued with damning judgements, whilst Spain and Sweden were praised as leaders in aid provision.
“Words, promises and pledges are nice but real aid commitments are more useful to the poor. From countries like Italy, we need less ‘parole’ and more action to put an end to poverty,” said Noerine Kaleeba, ActionAid’s President, who is from Uganda.
Read the press release - More information below.
As developing countries face the full impact of the economic crisis, European governments are falling short by nearly €40bn on their aid promises, a new report from CONCORD.
As Noerine Kaleeba, Chair of ActionAid International, said: 'France, for example, spent 45 times more on bailing out its banks last year, than it did on providing aid for poor countries. Europe needs to refocus its efforts on bailing out the poor'. ¬
Read the press release and for more information have a look at the press pack
Watch the opening of roundtable discussions at the launch of the report
Watch the writer of the report explaining the key facts
Watch Noerine Kaleeba, saying that helping the developing countries to come over the Financial
Crisis is without alternative and that the consequences of not helping would be disastrous.
Watch Aid Watch coordinator explaining why it is important to monitor Aid
Watch Filippo Alessi, Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU, underlining the importance of the annual Aid Watch Report
Renata Hahlen, DG Development says that in times of crisis private money is fast in leaving developing countries
Read the report - Read the summary- Click here to see testimonies from developing countries or pictures. Read other reports about the impacts of the crisis
Development NGOs call on Europeans to vote against poverty
CONCORD is launching a campaign across the European Union to highlight the EU’s role in the world and encourage people to vote in the European elections on 4-7 June.
Called “10Days4Development”, this campaign encourages voters to ask their MEP candidates about what they intend to do to promote international development and to address climate change if elected. It will run from 9 till 18 of May.
All around Europe, international development NGOs are organising activities, including public meetings, meeting with politicians, campaigning stunts, opinion polls and so forth. Voters can get information about the activities taking place in their country by visiting till 7 June: http://10days4dev.wordpress.com.
In June 2009, more than a half billion citizens of the 27 member States of the European Union (EU) will elect their representatives to the European Parliament for the 2009-2014 term. On this occasion, the CONCORD manifesto identifies and discusses three essential EU objectives: namely sustainable development, more and better development aid and democratic accountability, as well as urging MEPs to act on them.
Trade, agriculture, environment, migration and many other policies have an impact on sustainable development. Yet, these policies have not sufficiently and directly contributed to poverty eradication and the promotion of human rights within the EU, nor at the global level. In addition, the fact that the implementation of these policies exacerbates the situation of people outside the EU is frequently ignored. The Manifesto is available in different languages on this link.
The European Commission released her "Spring Package" on supporting developing countries to tackle the impact of the financial crisis, but CONCORD expressed deep concerns about the genuine levels of commitment being shown by European governments to keep their promises to the poor. Read the press release.
In April, CONCORD and its Southern partners met the parliamentarians from the European and the ACP countries. CONCORD gave 8 briefings prepared by its Cotonou group and had interesting meetings with the participants. Discover here these briefings: the review of the Cotonou Agreement - the review of the 10th EDF - governance - intra-ACP funds - the EU-Africa strategy - the Economic Partnership agreements - Gender equality - Aid effectiveness.
The Irish Government announced the fourth cut to its development aid budget since June 2008, with devastating implications for the countries that rely on Irish Official Development Assistance. The Irish overseas aid budget was cut by €45 million in July 2008, a further €15 million in October, and by €95 million in February of this year. April announcement takes another €100 million off the budget. Read the press release.
On 26 March,Chief Executive Officers of more than a hundred of the largest European Development NGOs met President Barroso and to urge him to put pressure on European Union Member States and on the G20 to take practical decisions on tackling the impact of the financial and environmental crises in developing countries.
As said M. Barroso: “in this global crisis we need a global approach and global solutions. Development is not part of the problem, but part of the global solution to the crisis. There can be no economic recovery without the developing countries. Our growth and stability is inextricably linked to theirs and vice versa.” Read the press release. Read the speech of M. Barroso. Read the speech of CONCORD president. Read CONCORD follow-up letter to M. Barroso and CONCORD letter on the situation of NGO in the European New Member States.
Figures released today reveal that development aid from rich country members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has barely risen despite the huge impact of the financial crisis on developing countries.
But for CONCORD the OECD figures give no grounds for celebration. Whereas aid rose slightly in 2008, this year EU countries are cutting their budget just as the financial crisis begins to bite into developing countries resources. Read the whole press release.
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