The CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) is a global civil society platform that facilitates bottom-up civil society engagement in partnerships for effective development cooperation (EDC). CPDE brings civil society organisations (CSOs) together on the issue of EDC and engages in multistakeholder policy arenas at the national, sub-regional, regional, and...
The Practitioner’s Guide to the CSO Development Effectiveness Principles
Learning resources to support you and your organization to put the principles for CSO Development Effectiveness into practice! A companion to the open forum implementation and advocacy toolkits
Advocating for Enabling Environment for Civil Society: An Advocacy Toolkit
In 2010, CSOs consolidated the principles and values that guide their practice through a series of consultations led by the Open Forum. The Istanbul Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness and the International Framework for CSO Enabling Environment were the products of this process. OF produced three documents to guide the...
Putting the Istanbul Principles into Practice: A Companion Toolkit
In 2010, CSOs consolidated the principles and values that guide their practice through a series of consultations led by the Open Forum. The Istanbul Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness and the International Framework for CSO Enabling Environment were the products of this process. OF produced three documents to guide the...
CPDE ICSOs Study on Impacts of Covid-19 on CSOs effectiveness: Full Report
The CPDE International Civil Society Organisations (ICSOs) sector has released its study One Year On: COVID-19 has made CSOs’ effectiveness harder on many fronts: A CPDE study on the impacts of the pandemic. This full report offers a snapshot from the point of view primarily of ICSOs of the global...