Activities
As a convenor, we bring together development cooperation providers (donors),
partner country governments and CSOs to engage in open and inclusive dialogue
to find common ground. As a knowledge broker, we raise awareness on
international commitments on CSOs in development and offer guidance,
evidence and practical tools to further their implementation.
July 2019 - July 2019
Task Team Session at 2019 Senior Level Meeting of the GPEDC
The First Senior Level Meeting (SLM) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) was held from July 13 to 14, on the margins of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York. This year’s SLM addressed how we partner and work together (the effectiveness principles) towards implementing the 2030 Agenda. During the SLM, the Task Team was part of the organizing group for Session 3C, “Whole of Society Approaches Toward Development Effectiveness: Enabling Inclusion”. The Task Team was represented on the session panel by its donor Co-chair, Ms. Orla Mc Breen, who together with Ms. Monica Asuna from Kenya’s National Treasury and Planning, spoke about the recent co-created, multi-stakeholder workshop in Kenya. Other Task Team participant representatives or their affiliates on the panel included the OECD DAC chair, Ms. Susanna Moorehead; Mr. Athayde Motta from the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis (IBASE); Mr. Julius Cainglet, Vice President at the Federation of Free Workers (FFW) in the Philippines; and Mr. Isidre Sala-Queralt, Director General for Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency in Catalonia.
SLM session Key Messages
- Open civic space, a fully enabling environment for CSOs, CSO development effectiveness, and peoples’ participation are essential foundations to achieving Agenda 2030 commitments, and in particular those relating to leaving no one behind.
- Despite renewed commitments, including the Nairobi HLM pledge to reverse the trend of shrinking civic space, a gap remains between global level assurances and national level implementation as evidence from the Third Monitoring Round clearly demonstrates.
- To help close this gap, a dedicated multi-stakeholder work stream on enabling environments for CSOs and CSO development effectiveness needs to be incorporated into the Global Partnership’s work plan. The work stream would assess challenges and bottlenecks, and work with Global Partnership members and affiliates to identify, implement, and disseminate solutions.
- The workstream would do so in a way that reinforces that partner country governments, provider governments, and CSOs, all share responsibility to promote and protect enabling environments for CSOs and to advance CSOs’ development effectiveness and accountability.
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About the event
The First Senior Level Meeting (SLM) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation (GPEDC) was held from July 13 to 14, on the margins of the United Nations High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York. This year’s SLM addressed how we partner and work together (the effectiveness principles) towards implementing the 2030 Agenda. During the SLM, the Task Team was part of the organizing group for Session 3C, “Whole of Society Approaches Toward Development Effectiveness: Enabling Inclusion”. The Task Team was represented on the session panel by its donor Co-chair, Ms. Orla Mc Breen, who together with Ms. Monica Asuna from Kenya’s National Treasury and Planning, spoke about the recent co-created, multi-stakeholder workshop in Kenya. Other Task Team participant representatives or their affiliates on the panel included the OECD DAC chair, Ms. Susanna Moorehead; Mr. Athayde Motta from the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis (IBASE); Mr. Julius Cainglet, Vice President at the Federation of Free Workers (FFW) in the Philippines; and Mr. Isidre Sala-Queralt, Director General for Global Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency in Catalonia.
SLM session Key Messages
- Open civic space, a fully enabling environment for CSOs, CSO development effectiveness, and peoples’ participation are essential foundations to achieving Agenda 2030 commitments, and in particular those relating to leaving no one behind.
- Despite renewed commitments, including the Nairobi HLM pledge to reverse the trend of shrinking civic space, a gap remains between global level assurances and national level implementation as evidence from the Third Monitoring Round clearly demonstrates.
- To help close this gap, a dedicated multi-stakeholder work stream on enabling environments for CSOs and CSO development effectiveness needs to be incorporated into the Global Partnership’s work plan. The work stream would assess challenges and bottlenecks, and work with Global Partnership members and affiliates to identify, implement, and disseminate solutions.
- The workstream would do so in a way that reinforces that partner country governments, provider governments, and CSOs, all share responsibility to promote and protect enabling environments for CSOs and to advance CSOs’ development effectiveness and accountability.