“Internationalisation of national civil society policies” Donor Group on civil society and aid effectiveness Presentation 26 February 2010, Brussels

 The road from Paris to Accra: Advisory Group on Civil Society and Aid Effectiveness  Recommendations: launch multi-stakeholder process  Valuable to have donor group to learn and undertake common action (harmonisation)

 Linked to Work Stream of WP-EFF (DAC) ◦ Austria ◦ Belgium ◦ Canada ◦ Denmark ◦ European Commission ◦ Finland ◦ Ireland ◦ Netherlands ◦ Norway ◦ Sweden ◦ Switzerland ◦ UK ◦ USA ◦ …(not exclusive)

 Promote learning  Undertake collaborative action  Support and feed into the multi-stakeholder process  Monitor progress on the two CSO proposals (Better Aid Platform and Open Forum)

 How best to fund CSOs  Roles of CSOs  Supporting and measuring more strategic CSO programming  Enabling environment

 Collaborate with other donor initiatives (Nordic+, EC quadrilogue…)  Use and build on recommendations of the AG-CS  Work both formally and informally  Work cost-effectivelly

 Donor survey  Joint evaluation  Harmonisation of donor requirements  Enabling environment

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