Development Cooperation in a Changing World: CSO and Private Sector as Development Actors

Center for Economic Development (Bulgaria) implemented a project “Update of the current status of implementation of international/bilateral trade regimes with ODA recipients and the current role of civil society and private sectors as development actors in the new EU Member states” in the partnership with 8 NGOs from different NMS (Czech, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia). Project was supported by European Commission funding.

The project objective was to build transnational alliances between new EU Member states so as to capitalize and disseminate their best network and advocacy practices on the occasion of the existent international trade systems with ODA recipients and the role of private and civil society sectors as development actors. The project delivered many national and international opportunities for discussing the following topics and producing reports on those topics for up-mentioned countries:
- the role of the private sector in development assistance and aid effectiveness,
- the role of civil society in development assistance and aid effectiveness,
- Developing open, rule-based, predictable non-discriminatory trade relations with priority ODA recipients

SLOGA, the Slovenian NGDO platform for development cooperation and humanitarian aid, as one of the project partners, analyzed the national context and also conducted several national debates about it.

Links to the online reports
Development cooperation in a Changing World: Policy input to Post-2015 International Development Agenda Sеtting (published: 2013-06-27) THE ROLE OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE AND AID EFFECTIVENESS

Development cooperation in a Changing World: Policy input to Post-2015 International Development Agenda Sеtting (Part 2) (published: 2013-06-27) THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE AND AID EFFECTIVENESS

Development cooperation in a Changing World: Policy input to Post-2015 International Development Agenda Sеtting (Part 3) ( date published: 2013-07-12) DEVELOPING OPEN, RULE-BASED, PREDICTABLE, NON-DISCRIMINATORY TRADE RELATIONS WITH PRIORITY ODA RECIPIENTS

Information provided by Marjan Huč, SLOGA - Slovenian NGDO platform for development cooperation and humanitarian aid