Blog – Latest Entries
Open Forum launches two new tools - CSO Wiki and Practitioner’s Activity Guide
New beginnings for CSO Development Effectiveness - Final Open Forum Newsletter out now!
The ’ABC’ of the new Global Civil Society Platform (CPDE)
Principles for CSO Effectiveness on the Day of Human Rights - Development by and for the People!
Civil society submission to the 1st meeting of the Global Partnership Steering Committee
1st Meeting of the Busan Global Partnership Steering Committee coming up
Towards a new Global Partnership for Civil Society - final meeting 8-9 December in Nairobi, Kenya
CSO Development Effectiveness in the MENA region - regional workshop in Erbil, Iraq
Donor perpective on enabling environment - 12 Lessons from DAC Peer Reviews
More concerns on enabling environment and action going forward
Thematic Consultations
Open Forum Thematic Consultations
As part of the CSO consultation process of the Open Forum, civil society also undertook six (6) cross-cutting thematic consultations. These were:
- CSOs and Gender
- Trade Unions
- International CSOs (ICSOs)
- CSOs and the Environment
- CSOs working in Situations of Conflict
- CSOs working with Marginalized Groups
All of these thematic consultations were global in nature, and all fed into the final outcome of the Open Forum process: the International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness. You can click on the links below to visit the page of each thematic consultation, as well as the outcomes and messages from each thematic consultation.
| Theme | Region | Coordinating body | Reports and Associated Documents |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSOs and Gender (Click to visit the consultation web page) | Various | ALOP, APWLD, KARAT, Women for Change | Summary Global Report on Gender Equality and Development Effectiveness |
| Trade Unions (Click to visit the consultation web page) | Africa and Latin America | ITUC | Trade Unions Principles on Aid Effectiveness |
| International CSOs (Click to visit the consultation web page) | Various | Berlin Civil Society Center | ICSO position paper |
| CSOs and the Environment (Click to visit the consultation web page) | Various | WWF | Consultation Report |
| CSOs working in Situations of Conflict (Click to visit the consultation web page) | Various | CIVICUS | Consultation Report |
| CSOs working with Marginalized Groups (Click to visit the consultation web page) | Asia and Africa | PCFS | Consultation Report |


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