Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness

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For a full history of the Open Forum and CSO Development Effectiveness, please visit the History page

On this page, you will find a compilation of the key documents published by the Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness. The Advisory Group was established in January 2007 as a multi-stakeholder group to bring in a civil society perspective on aid effectiveness. Reporting to the OECD DAC’s Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, it has sponsored a global consultation process that cumulated in an International Forum in Gatineau/Ottawa in February 2008. Its final meeting took place in October 2008. Its mandate has not been renewed, and the Open Forum was created.

• Issues Paper (September 2007)
• Concept Paper (September 2007)
• A North-South Civil Society Dialogue - Report (November 2007)
• A Synthesis of Advisory Group Regional Consultations and Related Processes (January 2008)
• International Forum on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness: A Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue – Final Report (April 2008)
• Synthesis of Findings and Recommendations (August 2008)
• An Exploration of Experience and Good Practice (August 2008)
• Case Book (August 2008)

Reports on Advisory Group regional consultations:

• Brussels, October 2007
• Hanoi, October 2007
• Lusaka, October 2007
• Bahrein, October 2007
• Cotonou, October 2007
• Managua, October 2007
• Kathmandu, November 2007

OTHER ADVISORY GROUP ACTIVITIES

European Exploratory Meeting on CSOs Development Effectiveness, Brussels - October 2008

On October 2008, CONCORD members came together to start reflections on how to move the process on CSO development effectiveness forward on the European level. Click here to read the report of this meeting!

Open Forum Progress Report, July 2008

To see this report, please click here

Exploratory Meeting on CSOs Development Effectiveness, Paris - June 2008

This meeting took place in Paris on 29 and 30 June. Several documents and presentations are available:

• Final Report
• "Key issues for CSO effectiveness", presentation by Rubén Fernández (in Spanish)
• "Update on Issues and Principles for CSO Effectiveness", presentation by Connie Lenneberg
• Preliminary Mapping of Existing CSOs Effectiveness Initiatives
• Opening Speech of Justin Kilcullen, president of CONCORD

The International Conference on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness, February 2008

This meeting took place in Quebec, from 3 to 6 February 2008. The report is available here

Also, an Informal Side-Meeting took place during the Conference. Click here to read the minutes