1. Background to CSO Development Effectiveness

2. What is the Open Forum process 3. International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness

5. GLOBAL TO REGIONAL TO NATIONAL – YOUR TIME TO ACT!

4. Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation

A multitude of challenges for civil society

CSO DevelopmentEffectiveness

CSOs struggle for funding

CSOs in North and South need to

adapt to changing aid architecture

Need to define what an enabling environment for

CSOs looks like

Need to advocate for recognition of CSOs’

roles and voices

Need to raise awareness on effectiveness

Broadening aid effectiveness

debate: human rights, sustainable

development, gender equality

Need for learning

opportunities

CSOs need to demonstrate

their impact in order to secure public support

Need to strengthen and

clarify accountability

Need to ensure impact for the benefit of the marginalized

1. Background

High Level Forums on Aid Effectiveness (OECD)

Rome Declaration on Harmonisation

ACCRA AGENDA FOR ACTION

2002

Monterrey Consensus

2003 2005 2008

HLF-1

HLF-2

Paris Declaration on Aid

Effectiveness

HLF-3

HLF-4

2011

Busan Global Partnership for Effective

Development Cooperation

2011

Open Forum set out to answer: What values guide our work as civil society What it means to live up to those valuesHow to cultivate a favorable political context in which to do our workHow we can improve our impact

Why did CSOs take on the challenge?

- CSOs have acknowledged that the changing aid architecture provides challenges to their own effectiveness (accountability, transparency, impact, enabling environment etc.)- CSO have started many initiatives to define and promote their effectiveness, but had not yet defined their effectiveness collectively as a global stakeholder group

- In undertaking the Open Forum process, CSOs are emphasizing that we are key actors and partners in development- The Open Forum process also serves as a tool to refocus the discussion from aid management issues to the actual goals of development and the impact achieved through our work

• A unique space for CSOs worldwide • to engage in a global and fully participatory

process• towards defining, introducing and

implementing a framework of mutually shared development effectiveness principles and practices

2. What is the Open Forum process?

2009

2010

2011

First Global Assembly

Second Global Assembly

Start of consultations

4th High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness…. and beyond!

National and regional consultations

Global thematic consultations

Political dialogue and outreach at all levels

To build consensus on the CSO development effectiveness principles

Continuing consultations to react to proposed CSO development effectiveness principles and framework, and to discuss national level implementation

Political dialogue and outreach at all levels

Finalise International Framework; CSOs mobilise for the 4th High-Level Forum

Including regional preparatory workshops to initiate and trigger process

70 NATIONAL CONSULTATIONS

6 GLOBAL THEMATIC PROCESSES

Trade UnionsCSOs working with Marginalized groupsCSOs in situations of conflictInternational CSO OutreachCSOs and GenderCSOs and the environment

Phase I: Summer 2010Preliminary consolidation in preparation for the first Global Assembly in Istanbul

Phase II: Spring 2011Final consolidation for the final International Framework drafting

Phase III: Autumn 2011Busan mobilization and preparation

11 REGIONAL WORKSHOPS

2010 in Istanbul, Turkey

2011 in Siem Reap, Cambodia

2 GLOBAL ASSEMBLIES

• Virtually all national consultations included an opportunity for donors and government officials to discuss CSO accountability and enabling environment issues with civil society in their country and national context

• Multi-stakeholder Task Team on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment– Civil Society (represented by Open Forum) was actively involved as

one of the co-chairs in this group of governments, donors and CSOs– Multi-stakeholder messages on Enabling Environment incorporated

into the International Framework

MULTI-STAKEHOLDER DIALOGUE

70+ NATIONAL CONSULTATIONS

6 THEMATIC PROCESSES

11 REGIONAL WORKSHOPS

2 GLOBAL ASSEMBLIES

THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR CSO DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS

The outcome of which is the consolidated statement called:

Including multi-stakeholder

dialogue

• First ever global statement from civil society on the effectiveness of our work in development

• A long-term reference for the civil society sector to guide our collective efforts to improve our work

3 Pillars:

-Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness

-Statement on CSO Accountability

-Minimum Standards for an Enabling Environment

3. International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness

High Level Forums (OECD)

Rome Declaration on Harmonisation

Accra Action Agenda

Busan Nov 29-Dec 1, 2011

2002

Monterrey Consensus

2003 2005 2008 2011

HLF-1

HLF-2

Paris Declaration on Aid

Effectiveness

HLF-3

GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION

HLF- 4

4. Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation

Paragraph 22: …we will:a)Implement fully our respective commitments to enable CSOs to exercise their roles as independent development actors, with a particular focus on an Enabling Environment, consistent with agreed international rights, that maximises the contributions of CSOs to development.

b) Encourage CSOs to implement practices that strengthen their accountability and their contribution to development effectiveness, guided by the Istanbul Principles and the International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness.

A multi-stakeholder, multi-lateral and international agreement which states:

Officially recognizes the statement and efforts that civil society have made to improve their own effectiveness as independent development actors

However… Enabling Environment is still a concern as the space for civil society continues to shrink across the globe

Busan Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation:

What is next: Global Level

• Purpose: respond to the post Busan development paradigm • Merging Open Forum and BetterAid• Cebu Consensus: February 2012• Worldwide consultations: June – July 2012• Sub-regional consultations: ongoing • Final meeting in Nairobi, Kenya: Dec 2012• New Global CSO Partnership launch

A NEW GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR CIVIL SOCIETY A NEW GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR CIVIL SOCIETY

5. MOVING IT FROM GLOBAL TO REGIONAL TO NATIONAL…GLOBAL TO REGIONAL TO NATIONAL…

YOUR TIME TO ACT! YOUR TIME TO ACT!

• Putting the Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness into practice in your organization!

• Advocating for a more enabling environment for civil society around the world!

Toolkits for CSO Development Effectiveness

Implementation Toolkit:

Planning process for applying the Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness in any context,

withexamples from CSOs across the globe

Consolidated guidance accompanying the International Framework to support context-specific implementation and advocacy by CSOs worldwide

Advocacy Toolkit:

Tips and advice from fellow CSOs on advocating for a more enabling environment from

governments and donors

Practitioners Activity Guide:Collection of group activities to facilitate strategic planning for country level implementation of the

Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness

CSO Wiki: Interactive platform and one-stop resource center for civil society practitioners who want to work on

improving the impact and quality of their development work

TWO NEW IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS! TWO NEW IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS!

6. What is coming up

Focusing today on: Practitioners Activity Guide

Developed to further support country level implementation and strategic planning around the Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness

The aim of this new resource is to: The aim of this new resource is to: -Train CSO practitioners to transmit the concepts and collective experience behind the International Framework and the accompanying Toolkits -Help CSOs take those first conceptual and planning steps on the path to improving their effectiveness with the Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness.

8 Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness

CSO Development Effectiveness Principles: some guidance for application

• For each principle, engage in a process that takes all principles into account

• Always consider internal and external issues• Push yourself to consider root causes• Base strategies on thorough analysis• Acknowledge existing achievements and progress, but also

seek further improvement• Submit your thinking, decision-making and planning

processes to scrutiny by internal and external stakeholders• Integrate a process of monitoring and learning• Be strategic• Be reasonable

Questions?Comments?

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