Links

Country and Regional Initiatives

Africa:

• Africa Platform for Develomment Effectiveness: brings consultation, coordination and a common voice to Africa’s development perspectives, strategies and policies focusing on capacity development, aid effectiveness and south-south cooperation in accordance with the definition of develomment effectiveness as the ability to achieve results that positively impact on people’s lives and societies in a sustainable way.
• Botswana Council of Non-governmental organisations (BOCONGO): NGO Code of Conduct
• Ethiopia NGO Code of Conduct
• Code of Ethics of NGOs in Mali
• The Tanzania National Council of NGOs Code of Conduct
• Uganda National NGO Forum
• Accountability Alert Sierra Leone
• Africa CSO Platform on Principled Partnership (ACPPP) and their Strategic Plan for 2011-2014

Asia:

• Agency Coordinating Body For Afghan Relief: Afghanistan NGO Code of Conduct
• Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC): Code of Ethical Principles and Minimum Standards for NGOs in Cambodia
• Civic Initiative Centre (CIC Georgia)
• India Credibility Alliance
• Integrated Social Development Effort (ISDE), Bangladesh
• Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy
• Code of Conduct of the Korea NGO Council for Overseas Cooperation
• Philippine Council for NGO Certification
• NEW! CPDG Philippines blog on CSO Development Effectiveness

Europe:

• Balkan Civil Society Development Network
• British Overseas NGOs for Development (BOND): Effectiveness Programme
• Development Cooperation Today: a 2010 publication from Kepa Finland on development cooperation
• DOCHAS: The Irish Association of Non-Governmental Development Organizations development effectiveness website page, as well as the DOCHAS blog
• Dochas Inventory of NGO Codes of Conduct
• Gurt Resource Center (in Ukranian!)
• TUSEV: supporting network of over 100 associations and foundations that share a vision of strengthening the legal, fiscal and operational infrastructure of the third (non-profit) sector in Turkey.
• United Way Belarus: The Portal offers - Monitoring of Belarusian Newspapers, Projects of Belarusian NGOs, other Third Sector related information.
• VENRO’s Code of conduct (in German only)!

Latin America:

• ANONG Uruguay: Code of Conduct (in Spanish only!)
• ACCION Chile: Code of Ethics and Principles Chart (in Spanish)

North America:

• Canadian Council for International Cooperation: Code of Ethics
• InterAction’s Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Standards

Pacific:

• Australian Council for International Development (ACFID): Code of Conduct
• Code of Ethics of New Zealand’s Council for International Development

Evaluation Methodologies

• ActionAid International’s Accountability, Learning and Planning System (ALPS)
• Emergency Capacity Building Project
• NEW! The Listening Project: Views from the receiving end of international assistance, and Overview

International and Other Initiatives

• BetterAid
  Internet portal of the Parallel CSO Process
• Beyond2015:
  International campaign aiming to kick-start and accelerate the post-2015 (and post Millennium Development Goals) planning process.
• One World Trust
  Contains an inventory of CSO accountability initiatives
• Accountability Charter
  This Charter was born out of deliberations of a number of prominent civil society leaders brought together annually since 2003 by the International Advocacy Non-Governmental Organisations (IANGO) Workshops.
• The Caritas Partnership Handbook
• Centre for Citizens’ Participation on the African Union: an Africa-wide platform set up to work with African CSOs in enabling them to engage with the African Union
• CIVICUS Accountability Charter of International Non-Governmental Organisations
• The Caritas Internationalist (CI) Emergency Guidelines
• Portal of National NGOs Platforms
• Reality of Aid
  Website gathering a selection of reports on the regional workshops held under the auspices of the Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness
• Canadian Council for International Cooperation
  Website of the Candadian national platform. Contains resources on the consultations held under the auspices of the Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness. Click here for CCIC’s inventory of ethics
• High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra _Website of the Accra High-Level Forum (2-4 September 2008). The deliberations and outcomes of this event influenced the establishment of the Open Forum
• Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness
  Extranet site of the Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness, hosted by the Canadian International Development Agency. Registration required (now latent)
• After Paris - Aid Effectiveness: where is it going and what could you do? (Video)
• Global Forum on NGO Governance
• Global Trends in NGO Law: A quartlerly review on NGO law from ICNL
• Overseas Development Institute Britain’s leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.
• European Alternatives: civil society organization devoted to exploring and promoting transnational politics and culture.
• Publish What You Fund:
  campaigns for aid transparency – more and better information about aid.
• Social Watch: Poverty eradication and gender justice
• Survival International: only organization working for tribal peoples’ rights worldwide. See illustrated booklet and report ’Progress Can Kill’
• West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI): a special initiative of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) established to enhance the functional capacity of civil society in West Africa.

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Thematic/sectoral Initiatives

• Code of Good Practice for NGO’s involved in responding to HIV/AIDS
• Disabled People International (Asia Pacific Region)
• The NGO Code of Conduct for Health Systems Strengthening
• Humanitarian Accountability Partnership International (HAP)
• Sphere Project
• Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Response Programmes
• Code of Good Practice - People in Aid
• Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP)
• The South-South Opportunity
• High Level Event on South-South Cooperation and Capacity Development
• Community Media Forum Europe A common platform for networks, national federations and projects active within the non profit-making media sector.