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For the first time since measurement began, human development – the combined measure of the world’s education, health, and living standards – is on course to decline in 2020. The pandemic is hitting all human development dimensions in all countries. Governments and societies face unprecedented policy, regulatory, and fiscal choices as they act to save
Read more →Philanthropy can play a unique and catalytic role in accelerating a real recovery by helping government leaders make smarter decisions. Helping the leaders develop and effectively use the data-and-evidence capacity, they need to give prominence to and understand community challenges’ root causes. Such a situation mainly targets racial disparities, and increase the impact of government
Read more →The paper narrows its focus in three ways. First, the paper concentrates on the risks inherent in the provision of personal data, such as data collected by social media companies. Second, it discusses the unique ethical risks involved when data is aimed at furthering policy-development, as distinct from ad hoc emergency or disaster-response arrangements. Third,
Read more →The EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) started an annual consultation with organizations participating in its Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) in 2018, focusing on the challenges they experience. The consultation followed the publication of FRA’s 2018 report on Challenges facing civil society working on human rights in the EU, highlighting diverse areas of concern, based on
Read more →For Albania, the year 2019 has been uncommon and challenging. The situation that followed the earthquake in November was unprecedented and brought a transition in the culture of donation, humanism, and solidarity among the Albanian citizens. Through careful daily monitoring of donations, campaigns, and events published in various media outlets, social media, websites of public
Read more →From March to early June 2020, The European Foundation Centre conducted a survey for its members, affiliates, and partners to determine what immediate measures they were taking/ planning to take, internally, and in their programmatic and funding activities, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey aimed to gain an initial overview of how EFC
Read more →EU published a report on development cooperation: Does the EU deliver?, providing a detailed analysis of the EU institutions’ and Member States’ performance in the implementation of the effectiveness principles, as agreed by the international community over the past ten years. The document provides insights into EU donors’ performance as well as adjusting the monitoring
Read more →More than 30 platforms of CSOs have written to the Presidents of the EU institutions and to the different actors involved in the negotiations for the next Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027, calling for a more ambitious agreement, taking into account the concerns of civil society and people in Europe. They are urging MMF Negotiators: to
Read more →At a special summit in Brussels on 21 July, the EU leaders agreed on an overall budget of 824 trillion EUR. Combining the multiannual financial framework (MFF) and an extraordinary recovery effort known as the Next Generation EU (NGEU), the package will help the EU to rebuild after the COVID-19 pandemic and will support investment
Read more →Civil society actors and the European Parliament state that the Council decisions about the EU multiannual budget are not acceptable, and that mobilization and institutional discussions have to redress its shortcomings and ill-directions. ECF considers that the present Council decision about the Multiannual Financial Framework and the Next Generation EU funding does not reflect people’s
Read more →The next call for proposals for operating grants to support non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the light of concluding framework partnership agreements (FPAs) and specific grant agreements (SGAs) will be published in spring 2021. The applicants: be a non-profit-making legal person; be independent, in particular from government, other public authorities, and from political parties or commercial
Read more →HORIZON 2020 will be called HORIZON EUROPE as of 2021. The EU Programme has been one of the most successful. As a result, Horizon Europe budget in the 2021-2027 framework will be increased for almost 30% into 100 billion EUR. This budget is allocated into 97.6 billion EUR and 2.4bn EUR for the Euratom Research
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