Since 2005, CONCORD’s AidWatch reports have monitored and made recommendations on the quantity and quality of aid provided by the EU and its Member States. With the AidWatch publications, CONCORD members want to hold EU leaders accountable for their ODA commitments, including the longstanding target of allocating 0.7% GNI to ODA.
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.
As stated in the New European Consensus on Development, and reaffirmed by the Council of the European Union, the EU and its Member States recognise the multiple roles that civil...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
In many aspects, CONCORD welcomes Member States’ endorsement of the political agreement reached with the European Parliament on the Neighbourhood, Development and International...