On 29 and 30 June 2008, over 70 representatives from civil society organisations (CSOs) from all around the world met in Paris to discuss how to take forward a process through which they will take up the challenges to their effectiveness as development actors. The meeting was called by an interim Global Facilitation Group and organised by CONCORD together with its partner organisations.
The meeting was the first global gathering of the process and an opportunity for a wide range of CSO representatives to give their inputs and to develop a shared vision for the process. They, inter alia, agreed on the composition of the Global Facilitation Group – the body that will facilitate, represent and oversee the process up to December 2010 - as well as on some key guidance deemed crucial in attaining the expected results (among other things an agreement on common principles regarding CSO effectiveness).
The meeting is the first tangible result of a process that had been agreed by a number of CSO representatives during informal talks at the Ottawa International Forum on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness in February this year. There, in a context of increasing pressure from official donors on CSOs to sign-up to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, they resolved to launch a global CSO-driven process towards agreeing on their own principles of effectiveness. Earlier, CSOs have welcomed the intention of signatories to the Paris Declaration to improve their effectiveness, but stated that the Declaration and its principles are not applicable as such to them.
The report of the meeting and a progress report that summarises the ambitions and cornerstones of the process will be available soon. A workshop to share the outcomes of Paris and discuss the process will be held during the CSO Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (31 August – 1 September). CSO effectiveness will also be on the agenda of the subsequent Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (also to be held in Accra), in particular in round table number six of this event (“Role of Civil Society in Advancing Aid Effectiveness”).
For further information: http://www.concordeurope.org/Public/Page.php?ID=11872 or contact Franz Josef Berger: cso-eff@concordeurope.org
Information provided by Agnes Philippart, CONCORD
The meeting was the first global gathering of the process and an opportunity for a wide range of CSO representatives to give their inputs and to develop a shared vision for the process. They, inter alia, agreed on the composition of the Global Facilitation Group – the body that will facilitate, represent and oversee the process up to December 2010 - as well as on some key guidance deemed crucial in attaining the expected results (among other things an agreement on common principles regarding CSO effectiveness).
The meeting is the first tangible result of a process that had been agreed by a number of CSO representatives during informal talks at the Ottawa International Forum on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness in February this year. There, in a context of increasing pressure from official donors on CSOs to sign-up to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, they resolved to launch a global CSO-driven process towards agreeing on their own principles of effectiveness. Earlier, CSOs have welcomed the intention of signatories to the Paris Declaration to improve their effectiveness, but stated that the Declaration and its principles are not applicable as such to them.
The report of the meeting and a progress report that summarises the ambitions and cornerstones of the process will be available soon. A workshop to share the outcomes of Paris and discuss the process will be held during the CSO Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra (31 August – 1 September). CSO effectiveness will also be on the agenda of the subsequent Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (also to be held in Accra), in particular in round table number six of this event (“Role of Civil Society in Advancing Aid Effectiveness”).
For further information: http://www.concordeurope.org/Public/Page.php?ID=11872 or contact Franz Josef Berger: cso-eff@concordeurope.org
Information provided by Agnes Philippart, CONCORD
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