by Newsroom | Oct 30, 2017 | Aid Quality/Aid Effectiveness, Aid Quantity, News
Ahead of the DAC high-level meeting, CONCORD encourages the OECD to ensure aid maintains a laser focus on eradicating poverty and sustainable development for all. The outcomes of the meeting could reinforce current worrying trends for EU aid: decrease of aid to least developed countries, increase of conditionality and securitisation of aid as well as an increase of in-donor country costs reported.
by Newsroom | Oct 16, 2017 | Aid Quality/Aid Effectiveness, Aid Quantity, Publications launch
How much did each EU country give to ODA in 2016? Get an answer in the accompanying graphs of the 2017 AidWatch Report.
by Newsroom | Oct 9, 2017 | Civil society power
End of November 2017, African and European Heads of State and Government will gather in Abidjan for the 5th EU-Africa Summit under the central theme “Investing in youth for a sustainable future”. They will address current and future challenges and deepen...
by Newsroom | Jul 31, 2017 | Civil society power, EU-Africa, Migration, Regional alliances
CONCORD is closely following the revision of the Cotonou Agreement, the broadest EU partnership with developing countries. The Agreement will expire in 2020 and the official negotiations will start in August 2018. What will happen next? What is CONCORD’s position? Find all the latest useful information in this blogpost.
by Newsroom | Jun 16, 2017 | Civil society power, Development Cooperation, Financing for Development, Migration, Policy coherence for sustainable development
Laura Sullivan, Vice President of CONCORD and Director for Europe and the Americas at Actionaid International, was representing CONCORD in the Closing Ceremony of the European Development Days 2017. Here are her main takes (part 1).