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

2.  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)

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

4.  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)

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

6.  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

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

8. Katrien.degrauwe@diplobel.fed.be DGDC - Directorate General Development Cooperation