In the first newsletter to kick-off the year, CONCORD presents its two latest reports, "Who Still Holds the Lion's Share?" and "Blended Finance and the Illusion of...
Unlocking the Potential of the EU’s Global Gateway: Meaningful engagement with civil society
The scale-up of the EU’s Global Gateway strategy takes place against a backdrop of shrinking civic space globally, continual cuts to Official Development Assistance (ODA), and...
AidWatch 2025: keeping a vigilant eye on EU commitments and the true purpose of ODA | AidWatch 2025 Launch
This year, CONCORD’s flagship report, AidWatch, turned 20 years old. To mark the occasion, we published a special edition, “Ending short-sightedness, restoring Official...
Enabling Civic Space – CONCORD’s Recommendations for the new EU Civil Society Strategy
This paper seeks to complement CONCORD’s previous paper “Standing strong in the storm: an EU strategy to safeguard civic space worldwide”, by providing an overview of the context...
Attacks on NGOs in the European Parliament 570+ Organisations Join Forces to Defend Civil Society
European civil society organisations are currently facing an attack coming from certain Members of the European Parliament. Spearheaded by some MEPs from the European People’s...
AidWatch 2024 explores whose interests EU ODA truly serves: CONCORD Newsletter October 2024
In October, CONCORD launched the 2024 edition of its annual AidWatch report, entitled 'Whose interests does Official Development Assistance truly serve?' This year's report...
Intersectional Feminist Policy-Making for EU External Action: 10 principles
Inspired by existing feminist foreign policy frameworks and the thinking by feminists in the Majority World CONCORD has adapted 10 principles that should underpin an...
Standing strong in the face of shrinking civic space: CONCORD Newsletter December 2023
In the December edition of CONCORD's newsletter, we shone a spotlight on shrinking civic space. We published a paper entitled 'Standing Strong in the Storm: an EU strategy to...
Standing Strong in the Storm: an EU strategy to safeguard civic space worldwide
This paper presents CONCORD’s recommendations to the EU and Member States to continue their support of civic space and an enabling environment for civil society around the world, through a structured and systemic strategy.
Who holds the lion’s share? A closer look at Global Europe Funds for CSOs
The role of Civil Society Organisations in implementing development cooperation programmes and providing funding for CSOs is a key aspect of EU international partnerships. Likewise, for many CSOs the EU partnership is a vital source of income for their programmes. In recent years, the changes in EU international cooperation programmes have impacted the distribution and diversity of EU funding for CSOs.