Our 2020 Annual Report is a portrait of a year in CONCORD. A year of challenging circumstances and new ways of working, but also a year full of learnings and looking forward. It presents highlights from our Confederation as a whole and from each of our working structures.
Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Least Developed Countries (LDCs) remains a scarce resource: EU ODA to LDCs in 2019 was only € 13.8 billion (0.10% of GNI). The EU remains...
Global Europe – the new EU development cooperation instrument¹ – will be implemented in a context of 80 million people globally facing long-term forced displacement. Of that...
The new partnership agreement between the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPSs) is the framework that will guide relations between...
The review of the EU’s Trade Strategy was an opportunity for the EU to use its leadership in the multilateral trade system to accelerate worldwide progress on the implementation...
The European Commission, Parliament and Council committed to mainstreaming the reduction of inequality in their development cooperation, but success depends not only on conducting research, but also on the findings being taken forward.
2020 should have been a celebratory year for accelerating gender equality globally. Instead, COVID-19 has dramatically reversed the progress made over recent decades....
The consultation concerning “A renewed trade policy for a stronger Europe” presents an opportunity for the EU to use its leadership in the multilateral trade system to accelerate...
In many aspects, CONCORD welcomes Member States’ endorsement of the political agreement reached with the European Parliament on the Neighbourhood, Development and International...
2020 marks the first year since 1998 that the global rate of poverty has increased. The COVID-19 pandemic has much to do with that, but it doesn’t help that the EU and its Member...