Now LIVE! TT Online Guidance

February 2021

The day you have all been waiting for is finally here! The Task Team’s Online Interactive Guidance on “Effective Engagement of Civil Society in Development is now LIVE on the open online course provider Coursera.

The Online Interactive Guidance is designed to build awareness on the need to engage civil society organizations in development processes. Explore the 5 interactive modules including animated videos and good practice examples from across the globe. Are you a true champion of effective development cooperation? Test your knowledge of meaningful engagement of and with civil society in development in the online activities. The rest you will have to discover for your yourself.

• Go to https://coursera.org/learn/effective-engagement-of-civil-society-in-development
• Select enroll for free
• Select sign up, enter your details & click join for free
• You will receive an automated email from Coursera with instructions on how to access the Online Guidance

If you encounter any issues with your enrollment, please contact the Task Team Secretariat: Lieneke Paalman (paalman@iss.nl).

Online Interactive Guidance: Enroll now!

January 2021

The Task Team is proud to announce that its Online Interactive Guidance on “Effective Engagement of Civil Society in Development” will be available on the open online course provider Coursera from Monday 8 February 2021!

This Online Interactive Guidance is designed to build awareness on the need to engage civil society organizations in development processes. The scale and ambition of the Sustainable Development Goals requires participation of all development actors, including CSOs, to ensure its implementation. Effective engagement of CSOs in development to achieve the SDGs is a shared responsibility: Governments, Donors, and CSOs all have a role to play to help maximize CSOs’ contributions to development. But what is needed for CSOs to be able to do so? This Online Interactive Guidance offers some answers to that question.

This online interactive version of the Task Team’s Guidance and Good Practice consists of five modules. Each module starts with an animated video introducing the topic and is followed by good practice examples; insights from the field in the form of video interviews; in-depth readings; and an online activity.

Enrollment for the Online Guidance is free: Click here. Once registered, you will have access to all the materials starting Monday 8 February.

If you encounter any issues with your enrollment, please contact the Task Team Secretariat: Lieneke Paalman (paalman@iss.nl).

Online Interactive Guidance

December 2020

The Task Team Online Guidance will be launched in February 2021! 2020 marks the Decade of Action remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The scale and ambition of the SDGs call for global synergies and joint action in the form of multi-stakeholder partnerships, inclusive of civil society, as advocated by the Task Team. Simultaneously, if we are to reach more people and achieve greater complementarity of action by 2030, digital forms of communication, tools, and knowledge products are needed. This is only accelerated by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. As such, the Task Team aims to broaden its dissemination and awareness raising initiatives by translating its knowledge and evidence into accessible online products. These products will be presented in the form of an Online Interactive Guidance on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment. This Online Interactive Guidance is informed by the Task Team’s Guidance and Good Practice, including the practical four-part framework. The Online Guidance will include animated videos, in-depth readings, good practice examples, insights from the field, and practical online activities. For more information read the description.

Bi-annual Task Team Meeting November 2020

November 2020

On 23 and 24 November 2020, the Task Team organized its 24^th bi-annual meeting. Due to the COVID-19 developments the meeting took place virtually and connected more than 40 participants from over 5 continents. The focus of day 1 was on sharing updates about how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their work, discussing civil society engagement in their home countries, which was followed by a session on the preliminary findings of the Task Team Mid-Term Review.

On the second day the TT Secretariat presented a sneak preview of the Online Interactive Guidance on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment scheduled to be launched early in 2021. The GPEDC Joint Support Team provided a general update on the 2020-2022 Work Programme and the monitoring reform, focused on action area 2.4 on civil society partnerships, in which the Task Team is an active contributor. Finally, there was a discussion on the findings of the Task Team Studies on CSO participation in the SDGs processes which have implications for the Task Team’s strategy and way of working.

Task Team Guidance, Abstract & Brochure available in French & Spanish!

November 2020

We proud to announce that the Task Team Guidance and Good Practice, Abstract Guidance & Brochure are now available in Spanish and French! These three documents encapsulate the core of the Task Team’s work and activities and are intended to contribute to a broader understanding of the commitments on the CSO enabling environment and CSO development effectiveness. The French and Spanish version of the materials will allow for wider outreach and dissemination of these international commitments, which are key to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The translated materials have been published on our website under resources.

The Online Interactive Guidance (coming in 2021)

October 2020

2020 marks the Decade of Action remaining to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The scale and ambition of the SDGs call for global synergies and joint action in the form of multi-stakeholder partnerships, inclusive of civil society, as advocated by the Task Team. Simultaneously, if we are to reach more people and achieve greater complementarity of action by 2030, digital forms of communication, tools, and knowledge products are needed. This is only accelerated by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. As such, the Task Team aims to broaden its dissemination and awareness raising initiatives by translating its knowledge and evidence into accessible online products. These products will be presented in the form of an Online Interactive Guidance on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment. This Online Interactive Guidance is informed by the Task Team’s Guidance and Good Practice, including the practical four-part framework. The Online Guidance will include animated videos, in-depth readings, good practice examples, insights from the field, and practical online activities. We hope to launch this Online Interactive Guidance in early 2021, so be sure to watch this space!