This guide aims to provide civil society organisations with a comprehensive overview of the instruments and programmes used by the European Union (EU) in its international...
Team Europe Initiatives: first insights and questions to Member States’ agencies
Team Europe is an approach initially born in the context of the EU’s COVID-19 response to support partner countries and to respond to the pandemic in a coordinated manner between...
Multi-Annual Financial Framework Timeline
The Multi-Annual Financial Framework (MFF) determines the budget spending of the EU for a period of at least five years. The current MFF which ran from 2014 to 2020, is coming to...
AidWatch 2021: A geopolitical commission – Building partnerships or playing politics?
2021 report takes a detailed look at the commitment to effectiveness in the Team Europe approach – the EU’s response to COVID-19 in partner countries. There are worrying signs...
A call to safeguard public services and sustainable businesses in Least Developed Countries
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...
Setting the highest standards for Global Europe implementation
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...
EU seven year development aid instrument finally agreed – but tarnished by EU migration politics
In many aspects, CONCORD welcomes Member States’ endorsement of the political agreement reached with the European Parliament on the Neighbourhood, Development and International...
AidWatch 2020: Knock-on effects, an urgent call to Leave No One Behind
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...
Note to civil society actors on the EU programming process in partner countries
The EU is the world’s largest donor and also a key political actor, with high influence over global policies and international agendas. The EU also recognises civil society, in...
Joint statement on NDICI and humanitarian aid in the next Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027
Ahead of the next round of negotiations between the institutions on the 2021-2027 Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) civil society organisations and NGOs are calling on...