For the past year, CPDE sought ways to navigate through the maze of carving civil space in the eve of the adoption of the new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) Post-2015, demanding that commitments to Official Development Assistance (ODA) are met, pushing for accountability of all stakeholders in exacting development, most especially accountability of the private sector and state actors, continuously engaging in multi-stakeholder dialogues to influence discussions on development policies even as CSO spaces are shrinking, and pushing the agenda of effective development and cooperation in various advocacy arenas beyond the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC).