Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness

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Civil society organisations (CSOs) have a crucial role in the development process as innovative agents of change and social transformation. All stakeholders – donors, developing country governments, CSOs and communities – have a stake in assuring that CSOs realise their full potential. CSOs have acknowledged their obligation to take forward and lead a process to improve their own effectiveness as development actors.

At the end of June 2008 more than 70 civil society delegates, representing a rich diversity and large constituency of CSOs, from both developed and developing countries, gathered in Paris to take up the challenges of CSO effectiveness in development. They agreed to launch a global two-year Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness, from January 2009 to December 2010.

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Consortium of supporting organisations to the Open Forum: Memorandum of Understanding
20 May, by CSO-Effectiveness

The Memorandum of Understanding sets out the tasks and structures of the Consortium of supporting organisations to the Open Forum. It is based on a mandate issued by the Global Facilitation Group in Kuala Lumpur on 21 January 2009, and was adopted by Consortium members at a meeting in Washington on 16 April 2009.

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NGO Codes of Conduct in Ireland
2 October 2008, by CSO-Effectiveness

This web site gathers NGO codes of conduct in Ireland.