Remember last year when CONCORD and GCAP members contributed to the “Aid watch report”? It aimed to alert stake-holders from European institutions, Member States and G8 countries on how European Development aid figures had been inflated in 2006 and to convince them to fulfil their commitment to deliver more aid.The pan-European press launch of the report made a loud bang in the blue sky of European Affairs. 189 hits in all-kind media, humorous demonstration in front of the European Council, publications on blogs and websites of NGOs asking citizens to send mails to their government, comic strip on the central pages of ‘European Voice’, the newspaper most read by stake-holders, etc.… Even Misters Barroso, Louis Michel and the President of European Parliament mentioned the report asking the Member States and G8 to deliver more aid.
Cherry on the cake, this pan-European press launch received in December in Berlin the “European Excellence Awards 2007” rewarding excellence in communicating the European vision, in the category of non profit organisation (more info on: http://www.excellence-awards.eu/).
In all, 50 networks and organizations from the 27 Member States, representing a total of over 2,000 individual NGOs, participated in the pan-European campaign. Thanks to all of them. This success is theirs.
Information provided by Agnes Philippart, CONCORD
Read the CONCORD Aid Watch Report:
www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/hold_the_applause.final.pdf
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