Transcript EuropeAid Overview of an global-scale and inclusive process Final Conference Budapest, 17-19th May 2011

EuropeAid
Overview of an global-scale and inclusive
process
Final Conference
Budapest, 17-19th May 2011
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EuropeAid
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The Structured Dialogue:
an ambitious & global-scale
consensus-building
process
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Extensive consultation & exchanges and
unprecedented support
• Participation of CSO and LA from EU Partner
countries has been systematically promoted. More
than 600 representatives from over 60 Partners
countries have been gathered during SD events;
• At European and global level: 10 main European
Platforms of Civil Society Organizations have
been involved, representing the different sections of
CS (NGOs, political foundations, Human Rights
organisations Trade Unions, youth organisations,
cooperatives, the Red Cross, etc) as well as
Platforma, the European Platform of Local and
Regional Authorities for Development.
• Member States and Members of the European
Parliament have been actively involved both in
regional seminars & working sessions in Brussels,
as well as EC and EUD personnel.
The EC
Headquarters
(DEVCO) and
Delegations of the
European Union
The European
Parliament
Members States
Civil Society and
LA
representatives
(European-based
platforms and
Southern actors)
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Bamako, June 2010
New Delhi, November2
Asunción, September 2010
Baku, February 2011
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EuropeAid
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The Structured Dialogue: a
comprehensive and
inclusive consensusbuilding process
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A set of inter-twined and complementary
components geared towards a common final
goal: Increase the effectiveness of stakeholders
involved in EU cooperation
On-line discussions
(to allow for a continuous exchange of information)
3 Supporting
initiatives (to
tackle specific
issues: Human
Rights and
Democracy,
Development
Education and
Local
Authorities
4 Regional
seminars
(to integrate local
perspectives and
foster global
cooperation)
1 launching event + 5 European
working sessions
(to integrate European
perspectives and enhance
dialogue with local actors )
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A process offering the possibility of continuous interaction
• The interactivity offered by
CISOCH portal allowed all
participants to be active in
between the Structured Dialogue
events
• All documents (background
documents, session reports,
position papers from
stakeholders, wrap-up
documents, draft concluding
document, etc.) and related
comments could be consulted at
all time
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A methodology designed to focus discussions
on participants’ experience & limit time spent in
big plenary sessions
• Case studies from different
countries and donors were
presented to introduce the
debates during the different
events.
• The interactive ‘world cafe
methodology’ used in the
Regional seminars allowed
participants to express their own
views and share their
experience, in reasonably small
groups that could leave room for
everyone’s contribution.
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The Structured Dialogue: a
process that has not evolved
in a vacuum
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Numerous linkages with other processes
• Several CSOs participants have a
key role in Open Forum or Better
Aid;
• The Istanbul Principles on CSOs
aid effectiveness were referred to in
many occasions and are a
landmark, mentioned in the SD’s
outputs;
• Several LA participants have a key
role in the committees within UCLG
working on aid effectiveness;
• Some of the Member States’
representatives also sit in the
Working Party on Aid Effectiveness,
and have articulates ideas from and
to the OECD debates.
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"Now this is not the end. It is
not even the beginning of the
end. But it is, perhaps, the end
of the beginning”.
Winston Churchill
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