Work on the ground has always been vital for civil society. This is a central tenet reflected in this Synthesis Report, which brings together the narratives of actions implemented by civil society organisations in over forty countries during 2017 and 2018. These country actions were intended to aid in enacting local development priorities and initi...

This publication is CPDE's contribution to the 2018-19 Third Monitoring Exercise of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC). Its Key Messages and Recommendations aim to inform and augment dialogue in the GPEDC. CPDE is committed to dialogue on outstanding development effectiveness challenges, including ‘unfinished business’ for many key...

This report has been commissioned by FOND with the aim to assess the state of the enabling environment (EE) for civil society development (CSDev) in eight countries of the Black Sea region: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine. In doing so, the report gathers and synthesizes proposals for strategic priori es of CSOs in the Blac...

"Cameroonian CSOs have come a long way since rising from the ashes of a democracy struggle which began with their country’s independence in 1960 and culminated with its leap into multipartism in the 1990s. Today over 3000 organisations categorised under the not-for-profit umbrella work alongside Cameroon public authorities, political parties, the private sector, te...

"Honduras is considered one of the most violent nations in the world, with an index of 84 people died violently per 100,000 inhabitants, even without the existence of a civil war or neighboring countries, there are no tribal disputes or social movement backlash on claims of territories. The country is marked by high inequality, impunity, corruption and the rise of ...

CSOs have welcomed the GPEDC’s attention to CSO enabling conditions as one of ten indicators of progress and the implications for government to improve this environment. However, evidence gathered to date points to a different reality for many CSOs reflected in increasingly severe restrictions in a growing number of countries on rights that affect their operations,...

"Under the 2011 Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, an important commitment was made to strengthen the enabling environment for civil society organizations (CSOs) as independent development actors. This meant creating conditions for inclusive development at the country level through implementation of democratic ownership, gender equality and wo...

This factsheet offers a brief presentation on the evolution of the global discussions on development effectiveness, the role of civil society in making aid more effective, the activity of CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness – CPDE, the engagement of the Black Sea NGO Forum in this topic, as well as offers arguments for civil society organisations in favou...