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The Roots of Democracy and Sustainable
Development:
Europe's Engagement with Civil Society
in External Relations
Development
and
Cooperation
Structured
Dialogue Final
Conference
(Budapest)
19 May 2011
Timeline
Stakeholders
consultation for the
Communication
March – May 2012
Commission
adopts the new
Communication
12 Sep. '12
2011
Agenda for
Change
Communication
adopted
Council adopts
Conclusions on
the
Communication
15 Oct.
2012
Busan Partnership for
Effective
Development
Cooperation
Dec. '11
Oct. '11
Development
and
Cooperation
Agenda for
Change Council
Conclusion
adopted
14 May 2012
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Background to the Communication
DEVCO
 CSOs recognised as development actors in their own right ,
but:
• A changing environment:
• Increasing number and diversity & more fluid forms of citizen action
• Rise of Internet & social media
• Limited dialogue with the state
• Shrinking space for CSOs & restrictive measures
• CSO internal challenges (governance, capacity & funding access)
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Development
and
Cooperation
The Communication in a nutshell (i)
DEVCO
• Towards a more strategic engagement with CSOs in Developing,
Neighbourhood and Enlargement countries
• Facilitate constructive relations between states and CSOs
• Three priorities:
1. Promoting a conducive environment for CSOs
2. Promoting meaningful and structured
participation of CSOs in:
-Domestic policy making
-EU programming cycle;
-International processes and debates.
3. Increasing the capacity of local CSOs to perform
their roles more effectively.
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Development
and
Cooperation
The Communication in a nutshell (ii)
DEVCO
• Promoting an enabling
environment (1)
6. CSOs in
regional and
global settings
• Strong focus on the country level
1. Promoting
an enabling
environment
and empowerment of local
actors (2-5)
5. CSOs’ work
for inclusive
and sustainable
growth
2. Inclusive
policy-making
for better
governance
• CSOs in regional and global
settings
(6)
4. Social
services:
partnerships
for better
quality
• Shaping EU support
3. Domestic
transparency
&
accountability
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and
Cooperation
1. Promoting an enabling environment:
a multi-stakeholder endeavour
The primary
responsibility
lies with the
State
… but other
actors also play
a relevant role
International
community and the
EU
DEVCO
• Peer pressure through
diplomacy and political
dialogue
• Strengthen efforts to
monitor CSOs' enabling
environment
• Promote CSO led
monitoring initiatives
• Actions and measures in
response to human
rights violations
Media including
social media
Reporting, promoting
reflection, increasing
accountability of public
authorities & CSOs
CSOs themselves
• Strengthen capacity of
public authorities to work
constructively with CSOs
Ensuring independence, internal governance,
accountability and representativeness
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Development
and
Cooperation
2. Inclusive policy making for better governance
• Dialogue schemes are
country-, sector- and
actor-specific
DEVCO
EU support:
• Focus on the quality by
ensuring results-oriented,
timely, predictable &
transparent dialogue
• Dialogue should happen
at all levels
• Invest in supporting
structured and effective
mechanisms for dialogue
between CSOs and (local,
regional, national) & public
authorities
• Importance of multistakeholder dialogues
• CSOs to offer relevance,
representativeness and
expertise
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and
Cooperation
3. Domestic transparency & accountability
Role played by
CSOs:
State institutions:
Acknowledging the role
of parliaments and other
oversight bodies.
• Analysing budgets
proposals – ensuring
responsiveness to
people's needs
• Monitoring and tracking
revenues and
expenditures
• Supporting budget
literacy
DEVCO
EU support:
• Long term & at local
and central level
• Focus on domestic
accountability
• Budget support:
transparency
criterion  support
to CSOs' oversight
role
• Ensuring transparency,
anti-corruption initiatives
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and
Cooperation
4. Social services: Partnerships for better quality
DEVCO
Responsibility of states
• Including local authorities
• Provision, organisation, regulation, quality, oversight
CSOs can a complementary role
• Access to services by disenfranchised populations
EU support
• Focus on sustainability of services and coordination
• Direct support to CSOs – absent/incapable states,
notably in situations of crisis or fragility
• Capacity of states to work with and support CSOs
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5. CSOs' work for inclusive & sustainable growth
The actors:
EU support:
• Cooperatives,
foundations, NGOs, …
• Initiatives combining
social & economic
ambitions
• Increasingly active
players in the economic
realm
DEVCO
• Job creation and
entrepreneurship
• Stimulate the local
economy, monitoring
policies, delivering
support services, etc.
• Schemes to extend
access to financial
services
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and
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6. CSOs in global and regional settings
DEVCO
EU support:
• Rise of activist movements
and networks
• CSO participation in
multilateral processes &
arrangements
• Emergence of a 'global civil
society'
• Promoting multilateral norms
and standards
• Dialogue with European
institutions  Policy Forum
• Monitoring international
commitments (PCD, aid)
• Development Education and
Awareness Raising (DEAR)
• Promote global citizenship &
solidarity
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and
Cooperation
EU Support: Towards a more strategic engagement
with CSOs
Capacity
development
Funding adapted
to local needs
Coordinated EU
action
• Reinforce capacity of
local CSOs
• Appropriate mix of
flexible funding
modalities
• Better understanding
of the CSO arena
• Improving access for
local CSOs
• Better coordination
between EU and
Member States
• Long term, flexible and
demand driven
approach
• Partnerships with EU
CSOs
DEVCO
• Roadmaps for
engagement with
CSOs
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Country roadmaps (EU and Member States)
DEVCO
 Strategic EU engagement with CSOs
 More impact, consistency, predictability & visibility of EU actions
 Efficiency gains: sharing knowledge/experiences and coordination
 Smartly designed & building on existing mechanisms.
 Linked to the EU cycle of external assistance
 More complementarity between EU instruments and with MS support
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15 October 2012 - European Council Conclusions!
DEVCO
• With the Council Conclusions we have now a shared EU and MS
policy…..
• The Council welcomes the Communication for a:
"renewed and more ambitious policy in support of civil society, with a
focus on CSOs from partner countries and an emphasis on CSOs’
engagement to strengthening democratic processes and accountability
systems and achieving better development outcomes".
• The Councils Conclusions put additional emphasis on:
o
Rights-based approach to development
o
CSOs and gender equality
o
CSOs in contexts of fragility, crisis and post-conflict
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Take away messages – boosting EU engagement
with civil society in partner countries
DEVCO
• New framework reflecting changed role of societies (Arab Spring) & new development
policy (Agenda for Change; Busan).
• Key role CSOs in democratic governance and development.
• Recognition of CSOs as actors in their own right.
• Focus on local CSOs in partner countries, recognising country specificities.
• Better EU coordination: development of country roadmaps with EU Member States.
• Support to role of CSOs in transparent & accountable governance & inclusive
economic development; lesser role in service delivery (in specific contexts).
• Specific attention to role of CSOs in fragile states (New Deal).
• Stronger engagement of CSOs in EU all stages of programming.
• Importance of CSO capacity development and internal governance.
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THANK YOU
Development
and
Cooperation