At the end of February, the AidWatch working group of CONCORD federation organised an advocacy training in Vienna, Austria. The training was the 2nd part of a capacity building project realised jointly by CONCORD, TRIALOG and Coordination Sud, the French platform of Development NGOs in 2010 and 2011.
The event focused on advocacy and lobbying directed at national governments and EU institutions with their new institutional architecture: the AidWatch Advocacy Group invited several experienced speakers, among them Per Ola Mattsson from the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs who spoke about the Swedish aid transparency initiative, or Liz Steele from the organisation Publish What You Fund who introduced the International Aid Transparency Initiative. During all sessions the preparation towards the High Level Aid Transparency Forum in Busan was present as a cross cutting issue.
For two days over 30 participants from most of the EU member states took part in discussions and interactive exercises designing advocacy campaigns, discussing the situation at their country levels and more. TRIALOG provided logistic support in Vienna and methodology input for the training.
A day before, AidWatch provided a training on the aid quantity analysis of OECD data for those members which will participate in the AidWatch report writing this year.
For more information, please visit CONCORD website: www.concordeurope.org
Or contact AidWatch working group: franz.berger@concordeurope.org
Information provided by Monika Matus, TRIALOG
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