As the efforts of civil society organisations at all levels shift towards the global goals to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Synthesis Report (SR) for 2017-2018 looks at country-level initiatives, priorities, and actions of civil society organisations (CSOs) based on new and previous pledges to contribute to the realisation of sustainable development goals (SDGs) and ensure development cooperation and effectiveness. This SR is part of the mechanisms and modalities developed by CPDE to guide the implementation of its country mandate, in order to increase the capacities of CSOs to uphold effective development cooperation (EDC) commitments in their respective countries. The context of the current SR is the ongoing trend of shrinking civic spaces, as well as the continuing predominance of corporate interests in development agendas across global and country arenas.