Financing and funding for sustainable development
What’s the issue?
Tackling inequalities, mitigating climate change, building peaceful and thriving societies, and achieving global sustainable development objectives requires a continuous engagement as well as funding.
Although world leaders have agreed on ambitious and universal Sustainable Development Goals and development effectiveness principles, finding the finances to achieve these targets remains a challenge.
The effectiveness of development cooperation depends on partner countries’ ownership of policies, programmes and processes. However, the path towards sustainable development is too often decided elsewhere.
Although civil society organisations play a vital role in speaking up against inequalities and injustices, the support and funding for civil society is also shrinking around the world, with Europe being no exception.
Change we want to see
EU budget for solidarity
10% of the 2021-2027 EU budget goes to ‘Neighbourhood and the World’.
Civil society consulted
Civil society organisations are effectively consulted on future EU development funding.
transparent aid data
Civil society organisations are effectively consulted on future EU development funding.
What we want the EU to do
EU institutions and EU Member States should implement effective development cooperation in line with the Leave No One Behind principle.
EU institutions and EU Member States should provide more and better Official Development Assistance (ODA), with a focus on results. To create ownership in partner countries, the EU must meaningfully consult civil society organisations on programming processes and ensure they can access EU funding which respects the diversity of the sector.
Who holds the lion’s share? A closer look at Global Europe Funds for CSOs
In light of the ongoing mid-term evaluation of the NDICI-Global Europe and the mid-term review of its programming, which should be finalised in 2024, CONCORD undertook a study on EU development cooperation funding for CSOs at country and regional level to inform, stimulate and support its discussions with relevant EU institutions and EU Member States. It will also contribute to discussions about CSO funding mechanisms and potential adaptations, especially with regards to the geographic programming.
Its objectives:
· Assess EU funding going to and through CSOs;
· Critically examine how the EU’s political discourse matches NDICI-Global Europe funding decisions, and
· Explore potential adaptations of the support and funding modalities to reach all types of CSOs.
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