On its second year of program implementation, the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) engaged meaningfully in better shaping and informing the changing aid architecture in the context of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) and influencing the policy dialogues on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) post 2015. Through a number of policy outputs and capacity building initiatives revolving around the thematic issues of Aid and Development Effectiveness, Human Rights Based Approaches (HRBA) with the Private Sector’s role in Development (PSD) as focus, CSO Development Effectiveness (CSO DE) through Istanbul Principles (IP) implementation, CSO Enabling Environment (CSO EE), and South-South Cooperation (SSC), CPDE elaborated the CSO key asks, highlighting the aforementioned themes.