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Learning to listen before speaking up: Beyond 2015 advocacy lessons
Reviewing the advocacy work of a campaign such as Beyond 2015 is not an easy task. As expressed in the campaign’s external evaluation: “The legacy of any advocacy campaign goes well beyond words. Having said so, UN officials and representatives of Member States seem to have genuinely welcomed and thoroughly considered the inputs of the campaign”.
Should we take this evaluation seriously? What real aggregated value does it have for future campaigns?
How to build a global campaign? Good question! This evaluation will give you incredible insight about critical lessons we learned from the Beyond 2015 experience. In essence, it outlines how to build a global campaign. When Beyond 2015 was in its beginnings there was no manual for how to set up an international civil society campaign.
Aid budget should not be used for security and defence of Europe
Governments across Europe are planning to divert scarce development aid budgets to cover security and defence costs.
5 things I needed to know 5 years ago about building global campaigns
As someone who has been intimately involved with Beyond 2015 for the last five years, Leo Williams, director, has been waiting with baited breath for the evaluation – both with an eye to the past and to the future. He has lost count of the number of times he has wished that a detailed evaluation of a global civil society campaign existed in 2010…
Coherence for migration and security – and what about development?
The new PCD policy paper on migration and development highlighted the incoherencies between current European policies on migration and the objectives of sustainable development and protection of Human Rights. The […]
EU relations with African Caribbean Pacific countries after 2020
The Cotonou Agreement framing the EU partnership with ACP (African Caribbean Pacific) countries will expire in 2020. What will come next? CONCORD Europe submitted a response to the EU’s joint […]
Recommendations for the implementation of the Agenda 2030
In the framework of the High-Level Political Forum, CONCORD Europe launches a position paper targetting the EU to match the ambition of the 2030 Agenda and respect some major components […]
Defending Civil Society Space in Egypt now
Today, on the 5th anniversary of the 25 January revolution in Egypt, fourty four Civil Society Organizations call for renewed efforts to ensure the release of Egyptian political prisoners.
Migration and development: security and economic interests prevail in EU’s policies
Security and economic interests continue prevailing in the EU’s policy and institutional approach to migration and development, says CONCORD in their new policy paper “Coherence for migration and security – […]
The Civil Society Summit Europe: the future of development cooperation
CONCORD Annual Reports
Every year CONCORD publishes its annual report, an overview of its activities and successes, financial information, membership updates, statutory documents. Find here CONCORD’s annual report since 2011.
FDR & Financing: publications
Find here the Funding for Development and Relief (FDR) and Financing publications.
EU relationships: publications
CONCORD leads reflection and political actions and regularly engages in dialogue with the European institutions and other civil society organisations. Find here CONCORD’s EU relationships publications:
Spotlight reports: Policy Coherence for Development
Since the Lisbon Treaty, policy coherence for development (PCD) has been a legal obligation on the European Union (EU) and its Member States. However, designing coherent policies is not always an easy task and implementing PCD calls for the right approach and appropriate means. Find below CONCORD’s publications on PCD.
CONCORD in Luxembourg for the first exchange on Agenda 2030 implementation
CONCORD addressed the Informal meeting of Ministers for Development Cooperation in Luxembourg on 10 December 2015 organised by the Luxembourg Presidency in the framework of the closing of the European Year […]
Goodbye DEEEP
Goodbye DEEEP 8 December 2015 By Tobias Troll (DEEEP project manager), with text elements from the DEEEP final evaluation report by Johannes Krause
EYD2015 Civil Society Alliance: Policy Recommendations
The idea for the European Year for Development (EYD) came from CONCORD. It was CONCORD that initiated, inspired and coordinated the lobbying of the relevant EU institutions to make it […]
CONCORD and the Civil Society Alliance at the EYD2015 closing ceremony
CONCORD and the EYD2015 Civil Society Alliance took part in the closing ceremony of the European Year for Development 2015 organised by the Luxembourg Presidency on 9 December 2015 in Luxembourg.
Seamus Jeffreson: EU leaders divert aid money at our peril
9 December 2015 – Seamus Jeffreson, CONCORD Director, talks to EurActiv in an exclusive interview. If, instead of providing billions to Turkey to stop refugees, EU leaders had supported the […]
EU and Global Value Chains: Implementing sustainable business through aid and trade – Impressions of the conference
EU and Global Value Chains: Implementing sustainable business through aid and trade – Impressions of the conference 8 December 2015 By Ad Ooms, Chair of the CONCORD Private Sector Task Force
How do we make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development disability-inclusive?
8 December 2015 – By Seamus Jeffreson, CONCORD Director I was lucky enough to be asked to chair a panel ‘Making the 2030 Agenda For Sustainable Development Disability-Inclusive’ at a […]
Élaborer une nouvelle stratégie, l’expérience de CONCORD
December 2015 – by Seamus Jeffreson, CONCORD Director Un réseau d’organisations de la société civile, tout comme une flotte maritime, doit pouvoir s’orienter et avoir une idée claire de sa […]
Civil Society contributions to realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
An important milestone towards a more sustainable future, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development marks the beginning of a 15-year process of transformative change for people and planet.
CSOs letter to Commissioner Mimica on ODA definition
Dear Commissioner Mimica, We are writing to express our concern about the growing pressure on international development assistance and proposals being considered at the OECD to change the rules on what […]
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