The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE), operating in the context of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) and the Busan agreements, envisions for a world committed to human rights, social justice, gender equality, and sustainable development. In its engagement with the GPEDC, CPDE welcomes the positive development in the GP’s initiative of socializing to the ideally more equitable and formal processes of the UN. Currently, the GPEDC is in a cusp of expanding to engage the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) post 2015, highlighting the importance of the multi-stakeholder platform in reviewing the efforts of the global partnership for sustainable development. Concretely, 2 of the 5 priorities of the GP presented in the Steering Committee meeting early this year reflect this expansion, namely: (1) improving quality of development partnerships (DPs) and (2) contributing significantly to the promotion of policy coherence in the Post 2015 processes (FfD, UN Summit, and COP) and emphasizing the importance of its future implementation. To respond effectively to this broadening of mandate, CSOs need to similarly increase its efforts in the GPEDC and relevant policy arenas.
Even in this expanding mandate while ensuring the effectiveness of DPs in the light of the new SDGs, the GP still remains committed to its previous monitoring initiatives on CSO Enabling Environment (CSO EE). Its current framework setting agenda of utilising CSO Development Effectiveness (CSO DE) and Istanbul Principles (IPs) in addressing issues of CSO EE poses the need for civil society to carefully document not only the monitoring of the external context but also our organisational capacity on IP implementation.
It is in this regard that CPDE is submitting this application entitled Enhancing Civil Society Role in Development Partnerships Post 2015. This Action aims to ensure significant CSO contribution in global and regional development policy arenas, particularly through the GPEDC and other relevant processes, with focus on the implementation of the SDGs. In order to contribute towards this over-all objective, it sets out the following immediate objectives:
