Welcome to the Open Forum

The Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness is a unique space for CSOs (Civil Society Organisations) worldwide to engage in a global and fully participatory process towards defining and introducing a framework of mutually shared development effectiveness principles.

The Open Forum also aims to provide a learning space, based on mutual trust, where CSOs can discuss issues and challenges relevant to their work and relationships as development actors.

Through the Open Forum, CSOs achieved a consensus on commonly accepted principles to improve their development effectiveness and the minimum standards for enabling environment where CSOs can fully apply and strengthen their specific roles in development, both part of the outcome statement of the Open Forum - the International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness.

This framework takes account of CSO development visions, approaches, relationships, and impacts of their actions. The Open Forum also facilitates multi-stakeholder dialogues with and among CSOs, donors and governments on these issues at country, regional and international levels.