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Open Forum Outreach Toolkit (preliminary version)
20 April, by CSO-Effectiveness
Keeping a Low Profile: What Determines the Allocation of Aid by Non-Governmental Organizations?
6 April, by CSO-Effectiveness
Primer on the CSO Development Effectiveness Process
20 March, by CSO-Effectiveness
Report on the FoRS Inception Seminar on CSO Development Effectiveness (18 November 2008)
12 February, by CSO-Effectiveness
Potentially Lethal: Increased Relationship Between Military And Aid
12 February, by CSO-Effectiveness
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11 May – Keeping a Low Profile: What Determines the Allocation of Aid by Non-Governmental Organizations?
16 February – Civil Society Organisations and Aid Effectiveness – a post-Accra action plan for Viet Nam
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22 April – Statement on the ASEM Development Conference: Towards Sustainable Development
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About this site
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.
Resources
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.
Regions and countries
NGO Codes of Conduct in Ireland
2 October 2008, by CSO-Effectiveness
This web site gathers NGO codes of conduct in Ireland.
