This report presents a collection and synthesis of country reports submitted by the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness (CPDE) focal points from civil society in eight countries. These reports form part of CPDE’s engagement with the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation’s (GPEDC) Fourth Monitoring Round or 4MR.

The country reports in this collection come from the following: Indonesia, Philippines, Honduras, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Nepal. These represent preliminary engagements with the data collection phase in the country-level 4MR process.

The main objective of the GPEDC’s 4MR is to track stakeholders’ progress in delivering commitments to the four development effectiveness principles contained in the Busan Principles: developing countries’ ownership of development priorities, focus on results, inclusive development partnerships, and transparency and accountability to each other. These principles are seen as crucial to attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

For the 4MR, the development effectiveness principles are measured by four dimensions and their corresponding components. These dimensions are: (1) whole-of-society, (2) state or status and use of country systems, (3) transparency, and (4) leaving no one behind.

The country reports in this collection focus on CSO enabling environment, a component of the whole-of-society dimension of the 4MR, even as they contain information about other components and dimensions of the 4MR Framework.

Majority of the countries that have country reports in this collection are lower middle income countries, have repressed civic spaces, are considered partly free with regard to human rights and freedoms, and receive USD 1.6 billion or lower in development cooperation financing annually.

The themes that emerge from the content analysis and synthesis of the country reports are taken as indicative of trends in CSO enabling environment and other aspects of development cooperation in partner countries, and are compared with development effectiveness principles and previous and recent related reports by the GPEDC, CPDE and other international platforms.