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...

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...
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...
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...
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...