Development Effectiveness of Civil Society Organisations

This site is dedicated to the CONCORD working group on the CSO development effectiveness process.

To learn more about the international process (Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness), please visit this site www.cso-effectiveness.org.

Working Group Meeting 10-11 February

The first WG meeting of 2010 took place in Brussels, on 10 and 11 February.

The following presentations have been made:

Julian Srodecki (BOND) presented the NGO effectiveness program of BOND, which should permit members organisations to improve their contributions to social development. The program consists of three areas of work: develop an NGO effectiveness framework; define which rewards effective development practice and outcomes and develop a management agenda and organizational culture.
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NGO Effectiveness and the UK Platform

Anne Garbutt (INTRAC) presented an analysis of policies from four European donors to support civil society.

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Civil Society and Development: Challenges from European Governments

Melanie Ossberger (Globale Verantwortung) presented the work of the Austrian National Platform and the activities programmed for this year to discuss CSO development effectiveness, in a context of changes in the bilateral Austrian Aid.

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CSO Development Effectiveness in Austria

Working Group Meeting 13-14 October

: The last WG meeting of 2009 took place in Brussels the 13 and 14 October. The following presentations were made:

Heike Spielmans (VENRO) presented the NGO-IDEAS project, a project through which German NGOs have developed and are implementing tools to monitor and assess the impact of development interventions with their partners in participatory processes.
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History of NGO-IDEAs

Rob van Hout (Fair Trade Labeling Organisations International) presented the strategy of Fairtrade to asses their impacts and contributions to sustainable development and described the methodologies used to measure it.
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Fairtrade’s Impact Assessment: capacities and possibilities

Mario Bucci (COTA) made a presentation on how the aid effectiveness agenda has influenced disscussions on impact and assesment of Paris Declaration and Accra Agenda for Action.
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Impact after Paris and Accra