“Internationalisation of national civil society policies”

Donor Group on civil society and aid

effectiveness

Presentation 26 February 2010, Brussels

Background The road from Paris to Accra:

Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness

Recommendations: launch multi-

stakeholder process

Valuable to have donor group to learn and undertake common action (harmonisation)

Who? Linked to Work Stream of WP-EFF (DAC)

◦ Austria◦ Belgium◦ Canada◦ Denmark◦ European Commission◦ Finland◦ Ireland◦ Netherlands◦ Norway◦ Sweden◦ Switzerland◦ UK◦ USA◦ …(not exclusive)

Objectives Promote learning

Undertake collaborative action

Support and feed into the multi-stakeholder process

Monitor progress on the two CSO proposals (Better Aid Platform and Open Forum)

Key Common Themes for Learning and Action How best to fund CSOs

Roles of CSOs

Supporting and measuring more strategic CSO programming

Enabling environment

Principles Collaborate with other donor initiatives

(Nordic+, EC quadrilogue…)

Use and build on recommendations of the AG-CS

Work both formally and informally

Work cost-effectivelly

Concrete proposals Donor survey

Joint evaluation

Harmonisation of donor requirements

Enabling environment

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