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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
Read more →The European Policy Centre (EPC), together with DAFNE and EFC organized an online policy debate on how European policymakers and philanthropy can strengthen collaboration to support the transition of the collaboration among the aforementioned. Topics ranged from philanthropy’s responses during the emergency phase to how to overcome the challenges philanthropy is facing and a call
Read more →Budgetary decisions are always political, they are a crucial tool for civil society to protect rights and demand justice. While the Coronavirus pandemic continues to spread and affect the most vulnerable groups in the societies, the state’s role has been up for debate. Many voices that were a symbol of neoliberal policies and ideas are
Read more →The Aid Transparency Index is based on a collection of data published by the respective providers in the International Aid Transparency Initiative. It hosts open live data published voluntarily by more than 1,150 organizations, providing information on organizations’ development and humanitarian activities. The report demonstrates improvement in donors’ overall transparency compared to 2018. The latest
Read more →As the COVID-19 crisis is likely to negatively affect civil society across Europe, primarily through the growing restrictions on civil liberties and the possible subsequent economic hardship, the urgency for better and more comprehensive support has increased. While the newly presented recovery instrument and the revised proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) are
Read more →The paper aims to support Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members and other providers of development cooperation to integrate the implications of a range of plausible futures of civic space into positive policy action. It overviews the variables (i.e. current trends, drivers of change, and uncertainties) that may determine the trajectory of civic space in the
Read more →Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU political agenda virtually screeched to a halt, and most ongoing policy proposals have been placed in the fridge, as the Institutions needed to focus on the immediate crisis and the necessary measures to tackle it. Having absorbed the first shock, the European Commission, on 27 May, tabled two
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