Structure and Governance
The management and governance structure of the CSO Partnership reflects its work at the global, regional and national levels and supports connections between levels.
The Global Assembly (GA) is the highest governing body of the CPDE. Meeting at least once every three years, it provides political leadership and direction in all of CPDE’s aspects and areas of work. The GA is responsible for the signing-off of policy, advocacy and external communication papers. It ensures the accountability of the Coordination Committee (CC) and approves the size and composition of the GA and the Co-Chairs.
The GA is composed of representatives from CPDE constituencies. Each sub-region and region have at least one representative in while sectoral or major groups have between two and eight representatives depending on the representational strength.
Co-Chairs | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Co-Chair | Biljana Spasovska |
Balkan Civil Society Development Network |
Co-Chair | Pedro Paolo Bocca | Associação Brasileira Organizações Não Governamentais (ABONG) |
Co-Chair | Nurgul Dzhanaeva | Forum of women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan |
Co-Chair | Richard Ssewakiryanga | Uganda National NGO Forum |
Co-Chair | Luca De Fraia | ActionAid Italia |
Regions
Africa | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative/s | Blanche Simonny Abegue | Dynamique OSCAF-Gabon |
Tola Winjobi |
CAFSO-WRAG for Development | |
Sub-Regional Rep – Central Africa | Christine Andela | Collectif des ONG pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et le. Développement Rural |
Sub-Regional Rep – East Africa | Eugene Rwibasira | Rwanda Development Organization |
Sub-Regional Rep – Southern Africa | William Chilufya | YDO |
Sub-Regional Rep – West Africa | Aurelien Atidegla | OSCAF-Benin |
Asia | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Chinara Aitbaeva | Nash Vek Public Foundation |
Sub-Regional Rep – Central Asia | Ikrom Mamadov | Youth Group on Protection of Environment (YGPE) |
Sub-Regional Rep – Northeast Asia | Nina Kao | TaiwanAid |
Sub-Regional Rep – South Asia | Md. Mujibul Haque Munir | COAST Bd |
Sub-Regional Rep – Southeast Asia | Nyi Nyi Aung | Local Resource Centre Myanmar
|
Pacific | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative/s | Emeline Siale Ilolahia | Pacific Islands Association of NGO (PIANGO)
|
Sub-Regional Rep – Polynesia | Drew Havea | Civil Society Forum of Tonga
|
Sub-Regional Rep – Micronesia | Alson Kellen | Marshall Islands Council of NGOs (MICNGOs) |
Sub-Regional Rep – Melanesia | Shirley Abraham | Vanuatu Association of NGO (VANGO)
|
Europe | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Izabella Toth | Cordaid
|
Sub-Regional Rep- Black Sea | Zaur Akbar | Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Azerbaijan
|
Sub-Regional Rep- Balkan | Simona Ognenovska | Macedonian Center for International Cooperation
|
Latin America and the Caribbean | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Georgina Muñoz | Red Nicaragüense de Comercio Comunitario (RENICC)
|
Sub-Regional Rep-ConoSur | Cristina Prego | Asociación Nacional de ONGs (ANONG) |
Sub-Regional Rep – Comunidad Andina | Ricardo Jiménez | Forum solidaridad |
Sub-Regional Rep – Caribe | Jared Ortíz | Alianza ONG |
Sub-Regional Rep – Mexico and Central America | Ruben Quintanilla | MODES: Movimiento
de ONG´S para el Desarrollo Solidario de El Salvador |
Sub-Regional Rep – Mexico and Central America | Ninoska Valle | Central Nacional de trabajadxs del Campo |
Sub-Regional Rep – Mexico and Central America | Laura Becerra | Equipo Pueblo DECA and Central America
|
Middle East and North Africa | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Anas El-Hasnaoui | Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)/ Espace Associatif
|
Sub-Regional Rep – Middle East | Jamal el Jawahiri | Iraqui al-Amal
|
Sub-Regional Rep – North Africa | Douha El Jourshi | ADO+
|
Sectors
Faith Based Organisations | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative | Eva Ekelund | ACT Alliance
|
Sector Representative | Shahin Ahsraf | Islamic Relief World Wide |
Sector Representative | Isaiah Toroitich | Lutheran World Federation
|
Labour | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | Diego Lopez Gonzales | International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Global) |
Giulia Massobrio | International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Europe) | |
Demba Karyon | Union des Syndicats du Tchad / International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa | |
Marcela León | ASI Venezuela / Trade Union Confedration of the Americas (TUAC)
| |
Andrés Larisgoitía | CTAT Argentina / Trade Union Confedration of the Americas (TUAC)
| |
Joy Quitain Hernandez | International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-AP) |
Agricultural and Rural Development | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | Kurniawan Sabar | Institute for National and Democracy Studies (INDIES)
|
MENA | Mariam Al Jaajaa | Arab Group for the Protection of Nature
|
Africa | Gershom Kabaso | Zambia Social Forum (Zamsof)
|
Latin America | Alejandro Barrios | Instituto Politécnico Tomás Katari
|
MENA | Maha Jammoul | Consultative Center for Studies and Documentation (APN member)
|
International CSOs | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | Luca de Fraia | ActionAid International
|
Feminist Group | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sectoral Representative-Global | Patricia Akakpo | NETRIGHT
|
Eastern Africa | Mama Koite Doumbia | African Women’s Development and Communications Network
|
Asia | Shanta Laxmi Shrestha | Beyond Beijing Committee
|
Latin America | Lorena Fries | Centro regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Genero: Corporació nHumanas
|
Latin America | Tania Sanchez | Coordinadora dela Mujer
|
Europe | Rosa Belen Agirregomezkorta | Centro de Estudios e Investigacion sobre Mujeres
|
Europe | Valentina Bodrug | Moldova |
MENA | Shaiek Samar | Tunisian Association for Democratic Women (Association Tunisienne des Femmes Démocrates – ATFD)
|
MENA | Nevine Ebeid/Ibrahim Nevine Ebeid Fahim | New Woman Foundation – Egypt
|
Pacific | Susana Tuisawau | Pacific Center for the Advancement of Women
|
Indigenous Peoples | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global and Asia Region | Jiten Yumnam | Forum for Indigenous People of Action
|
Africa | Celestine Akpobari | Ogoni Solidarity Forum |
Pacific | Ronny Kareni | Merdeka West Papua Support Network |
Youth | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | ||
Pacific | ||
Africa | Rita Suwun Beri | Cameroon Youths and Students Forum for Peace
|
MENA | Doha Faraj | Lebanon |
Asia | Jenison Urikhimbam | Youth’s Forum for Protection of Human Rights
|
Latin America | ||
Europe | Anton Martinov | International Youth Alliance
|
Maggie Mwape | Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ) | |
Aisah C Mariano | Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network (AYIPN) |
Migration/Diaspora | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative & Convenor | Aaron Ceradoy | Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants |
Pacific | Pefi Kingi | Pacificwin
|
Pacific | Mandeep Bela | The Union Network of Migrants
|
North America | Antonio Arizaga | Frente Unido De Inmigrantes Ecuatorianos
|
North America | Niel La Dode | Quebec, Canada
|
Europe | Anna Zobnina | European Network of Migrant Women
|
Europe | Paul Asquith | African Foundation for Development UK
|
Asia | Ramon Bultron | International Migrants Alliance
|
Asia | Glorene Das | Tenaganita |
Africa | Malick Sy | Senegal |
Africa |
Name | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|
Director, Financial Management Organisation and Steering Committee member | Jennifer Malonzo | IBON International
|
Executive Secretary, CPDE Global Secretariat and Steering Committee member |
Roberto Pinauin | CPDE Global Secretariat |
GPEDC Non-Executive Co-Chair | Vitalice Meja | Reality of Aid-Africa
|
The Coordination Committee (CC) is composed of members of the GA and acts under its supervision and mandate. The CC is responsible for:
- Following up on the decisions of the GA meetings;
- Facilitating policy development;
- Preparing the draft agenda and report for the annual GA meeting;
- Facilitating the setting up, coordination and coherence of the Working Groups;
- Overseeing the work of the Global Secretariat;
- Approving the draft annual budget for the CSO Partnership; and,
The CC meets at least once a year and reports to the GA through the Global Secretariat.
Co-Chairs | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Co-Chair | Biljana Spasovska |
Balkan Civil Society Development Network |
Co-Chair | Pedro Paolo Bocca | Associação Brasileira Organizações Não Governamentais (ABONG |
Co-Chair | Nurgul Dzhanaeva | Forum of women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan |
Co-Chair | Luca De Fraia | ActionAid Italia |
Co-Chair | Richard Ssewakiryanga | Uganda National NGO Forum |
Regions | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Africa | Blanche Simonny Abegue | Dynamique OSCAF-Gabon
|
Africa | Tola Winjobi | CAFSO-WRAG for Development
|
Asia | Chinara Aitbaeva | Nash Vek
|
Asia | Nina Kao | Taiwan Aid |
Europe | Izabella Toth | Cordaid |
Latin America and the Caribbean | Malena Fama/Henry Morales | Red Encuentro/Movimiento Tzuk Kim Pop
|
Latin America and the Caribbean | Georgina Muñoz Pavon | Red Latinoamericana por Justicia Economica y Social
|
Middle East and North Africa | Anas El Hasnaoui | Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)
|
Pacific | Emeline Siale Ilolahia | Pacific Islands Association of NGO
|
Sectors | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Faith-Based Organizations | Eva Ekelund | ACT Alliance
|
Labour | Diego Lopez Gonzales | International Trade Union Confederation
|
Rural | Kurniawan Sabar | Institute for National and Democracy Studies (INDIES)
|
International CSOs (INGOs) | Luca de Fraia | ActionAid International
|
Feminist Groups | Patricia Akakpo | Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT |
Indigenous Peoples | Jiten Yumnam | Forum for Indigenous People of Action
|
Youth | Jenison Urikhimbam | Youth Forum for the Protection of Human Rights (YFPHR) |
Migrants | Aaron Ceradoy | Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
|
Name | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|
Director, Financial Management Organisation and Steering Committee member | Jennifer Malonzo | IBON International
|
Executive Secretary, CPDE Global Secretariat and Steering Committee member |
Roberto Pinauin | CPDE Global Secretariat |
GPEDC Non-Executive Co-Chair | Vitalice Meja | Reality of Aid-Africa
|
Richard Ssewakiryanga
Ssewakiryanga is the former Executive Director of the Uganda National NGO Forum and a former co-chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP). He is also a Policy Anthropologist who has helped formulate national poverty reduction strategies and shape international discussions of development cooperation and effectiveness.
Nurgul Dzhanaeva
Nurgul Dzhanaeva is the President of the Forum of Women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, who has also served as sectoral representative and coordinator of the CPDE Feminist Group. In over a decade of involvement in aid and development effectiveness arenas, she has demonstrated strong engagement in the struggle for democratic ownership, adequate accountability, and feminist issues at local, regional, and global levels.
Aside from her long-term engagement with CPDE, she has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Women Watch, the Regional Coordination Committee of the APRCEM, the Board of Directors of the Global Fund for Women, the Coordinating Committee of the Reality of Aid Asia-Pacific, and the Asia Pacific Research Network board. She is also an Organizing Partner of the Women’s Major Group for SDGs, and an initiator and member of the UNECE RCEM governing body.
Nurgul also holds more than 20 years of experience in women’s political participation, women’s economic rights advocacy against VAW, for SRHR, on building women’s movement in Kyrgyzstan, and strengthening capacity of women’s organizations. She is a trainer on women’s rights and served as a Global Trainer of the CSW/NGO Committee.
Biljana Spasovska
Biljana Spasovska is the Executive Director of the Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN), CPDE’s regional secretariat for the Europe region, whose action focuses on promoting an enabling environment for civil society, and effective development principles for ensuring sustainable and functioning democracies in the Balkans.
With more than 10 years of experience in the field of effective development cooperation, Biljana has proven expertise in research, monitoring, evaluation, policy and advocacy, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. She has designed and implemented international programmes related to empowering the civil society and advancing the development and the EU accession of the Western Balkans, working on collaborative projects with different stakeholders including notable regional, EU and global civil society organisations, international institutions, government agencies, and donors. As a lead representative of the Europe region for CPDE she has been actively involved in in various EU level events and international arenas including the 3rd GPEDC Monitoring round, the Belgrade Call to Action, and the organisation of the Global Civil Society Summit in 2019, and in 2022.
Luca De Fraia
Luca De Fraia is the Deputy Secretary General of ActionAid Italy, leading on institutional relationships. He has been an active member of CPDE since the Partnership’s inception, representing the ICSO sector and providing support for CPDE’s overall objectives especially in the area of policy and alliance building with other relevant CSO networks in the area of financing for development. He is also a member of the CPDE Coordination Committee, which represents civil society organisations on the Steering Committee of the GPEDC. In this capacity, he actively participated in the High-Level Meetings of the GPEDC, Mexico City (2014) and Nairobi (2016), and Geneva (2022).
Luca has been deeply committed to and involved in emerging, technical issues such as the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF). Since 2017, he heads the TOSSD (Total Official Support for Sustainable Development) Task Force of the DAC-CSO Reference Group, and is active in discussions around financing for development. He strives to utilize every available platform in his effort to raise awareness and peoples’ concerns on effective development cooperation issues.
Pedro Paulo Bocca
Pedro Paulo Bocca is the International Advocacy Advisor of the Brazilian Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (ABONG), and a committed representative of the CPDE Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. He participated in the last two CPDE LAC Chapter Assemblies, held in Asuncion (2019) and Mexico City (2022), and in the Effective Cooperation Summit in Geneva (2022). Through his role at ABONG, he focused on global and regional CSO engagements for development effectiveness through networks and platforms (Forus, Mesa de Articulación, RePlong, CPDE, Processo de Articulação e Diálogo, among others); and participated in several conferences of the UN system, in particular the High-Level Political Forum (New York) and the Human Rights Council (Geneva). He also sustained relationship with international cooperation partners and investors, and developed strong expertise in project management, monitoring and evaluation, relationship with funding agencies and partners, and strategic planning.
Besides his political engagements with civil society groups at local, regional, and global levels, he has been a teacher of international relations and foreign policy for several public universities and academic institutions in Brazil.
The Global Secretariat supports the daily management and finances of the CSO Partnership. It is currently hosted by IBON International as CPDE’s Fiscal Management Organisation (FMO). To read the Terms of Reference of the FMO, please access it here:
Executive Secretary
Robert is responsible for the day-to-day direction, coordination, implementation, control and completion of activities of CPDE’s programme, based on the platform’s strategic objectives and outcomes.
Matt Simonds
Senior Policy Officer and Liaison
Marc Ignacio
Deputy Programme Manager and Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Responsible for the monitoring and ensuring quality and timely inputs. Develops systematic monitoring framework to improve the evidence gathered by the projects. Responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities. Assists the Program Manager and EC Project Manager in preparing Annual reports and monitors the project activities.
Leo Pura
European Commission Project Manager
Leo coordinates CPDE’s programme cycle of planning, monitoring, and implementation, and evaluation, ensuring that outputs are aligned with the platform’s performance framework. He develops tools for monitoring and evaluating CPDE’s progress in the achievement of its programme outcomes. He also serves as the Programme Manager for European Commission-supported actions.
Glenis Balangue
Capacity Development Coordinator
Glenis helps organise initiatives that build the capacities of the CPDE membership to engage in activities around effective development cooperation. She works closely with the Network Manager to evaluate the needs of the constituents, and provide the necessary support for their active participation in the platform.
Daniela Sepulveda
Communications and Capacity Development Officer
Daniela produces and publishes materials promoting CPDE’s advocacy, and supporting its network management, capacity development, and programme and finance work. She coordinates with relevant regional and sectoral focal points, and Task Forces in bridging information exchange, between the various levels of CPDE constituencies. She also provides support to Capacity Development needs as requested by Network Manager/Capacity Development Coordinator.
Margaret Yarcia
Communications Manager
Wigen Echual
Programme Assistant
As Programme Assistant, Wigen provides assistance in all of the Programme Manager/Officers tasks requiring administrative support, such as logistics preparation for meetings and events, document archiving, documentation of meetings and conferences, budget preparation, disbursements and liquidation, and other tasks as may be deemed necessary by the Secretariat.
Alvin Villamor
Webmaster
Alvin helps ensure CPDE’s active online presence especially by maintaining a dynamic and interactive website. He also manages internal communications and knowledge management systems through the administration of mailing lists, and provides communications support through the design of CPDE’s information materials.
The members of the IAC
Emele Duituturaga
Independent Consultation for Development, Gender, Social Inclusion, Civil Society
Former Executive Director at Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO)
Former CPDE Regional Representative CPDE Asia-Pacific and Program and Finance Committee member
Elomo Andela
Advisor and Partnership Manager, Collective of NGOs for Food Security and Rural Development (COSADER)
Has socio-professional background working alongside CSOs
Has had a long experience in the field of CSO accountability, transparency and responsibility
Former African Representative, CPDE Working Group on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society and worked closely with CPDE since its inception
As with its global counterpart, regional and sectoral coordinating units operate guided by the principles of diversity, representation, gender equity, and consensus decision-making.
The regional coordinating units convene existing sub-regional platforms, development CSOs and sectoral networks/groups within the region to develop and implement a collective advocacy, outreach and capacity development work plan. Through the regional coordination committees, the regional focal person and its representative(s) to the GA are selected.
The regional coordinating units are composed of a regional representative, sub-regional representatives, sector focal persons (at least one for each recognized sector) and regional secretariat (at most two dedicated staff). They are responsible for: (1) planning, coordination, communication and financial management, (2) policy development and advocacy engagement, and (3) outreach and capacity building. Generally, these are the governance bodies that provide leadership and direction to aid and development effectiveness work within the region following the vision, mission, goals, and strategies of the CPDE. These are also the units responsible for overseeing the operations of the regional secretariat.
To date, most regions have regional secretariats responsible for: (1) network coordination, administration, and outreach, (2) documentation and information management, (3) coordinating CPDE advocacy, outreach and capacity development activities with CPDE working groups and sectoral representatives in the region ensuring smooth and timely implementation and proper representation, (4) and coordinating with the Global Secretariat on CPDE program and platform decisions, activities, and processes.
Sectors also maintain coordinating units facilitated by a global representative and composed of regional representatives. The global representative sits at the CC, while global and regional representatives sit at the GA. Regional sectoral representatives are also part of regional coordinating units/committees to ensure synergy in their work with their respective region/sub-region.
Regional Secretariats | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Asia | Sarah Torres | Reality of Aid Asia Pacific
|
Africa | Alice Maina | Reality of Aid Africa
|
Latin America | Georgina Muñoz | Red Nicaragüense de Comercio Comunitario (RENICC)
|
Malena Fama | Red Encuentro / Multipolar | |
Henry Morales | Movimiento Tzuk Kim Pop | |
Europe | Marija Vishinova Shemova | Balkan Civil Society Development Network
|
MENA | Marie-Jose Saade | Arab NGO Network for Development
|
Pacific | Emeline Siale Ilolahia | Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO)
|
Sectoral Secretariats | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Faith-Based Organisations (FBO) | Thorsten Göbel | ACT Alliance
|
Labour | Lorenza Lo Sasso | International Trade Union Confederation |
Rural | People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)
| |
International Civil Society Organisations (ICSO) | Luca De Fraia | ActionAid
|
Women/Feminist Group | Patricia Akakpo | Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) |
Indigenous People (IP) | Patricia Isabelle Dela Cruz | International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL)
|
Youth | Anton Martinov | International Youth Alliance |
Jenison Urikhimbam | Youth Forum for the Protection of Human Rights (YFPHR) | |
Migrants | Aaron Ceradoy | Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
|
Task Force Coordinators | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Private Sector Engagement | Tala Batangan | Reality of Aid Network |
CSO Enabling Environment/Development Effectiveness | Vitalice Meja | Reality of Aid- Africa |
Nurgul Dzhanaeva | Forum for Women’s NGOs of Kyrgystan | |
Climate Finance |
Josefina Villegas Caputti | Global Secretariat |
Nexus Issues | Jane Nabong | International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) |
The Global Assembly (GA) is the highest governing body of the CPDE. Meeting at least once every three years, it provides political leadership and direction in all of CPDE’s aspects and areas of work. The GA is responsible for the signing-off of policy, advocacy and external communication papers. It ensures the accountability of the Coordination Committee (CC) and approves the size and composition of the GA and the Co-Chairs.
The GA is composed of representatives from CPDE constituencies. Each sub-region and region have at least one representative in while sectoral or major groups have between two and eight representatives depending on the representational strength.
Co-Chairs | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Co-Chair | Biljana Spasovska |
Balkan Civil Society Development Network |
Co-Chair | Pedro Paolo Bocca | Associação Brasileira Organizações Não Governamentais (ABONG) |
Co-Chair | Nurgul Dzhanaeva | Forum of women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan |
Co-Chair | Richard Ssewakiryanga | Uganda National NGO Forum |
Co-Chair | Luca De Fraia | ActionAid Italia |
Regions
Africa | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative/s | Blanche Simonny Abegue | Dynamique OSCAF-Gabon |
Tola Winjobi |
CAFSO-WRAG for Development | |
Sub-Regional Rep – Central Africa | Christine Andela | Collectif des ONG pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et le. Développement Rural |
Sub-Regional Rep – East Africa | Eugene Rwibasira | Rwanda Development Organization |
Sub-Regional Rep – Southern Africa | William Chilufya | YDO |
Sub-Regional Rep – West Africa | Aurelien Atidegla | OSCAF-Benin |
Asia | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Chinara Aitbaeva | Nash Vek Public Foundation |
Sub-Regional Rep – Central Asia | Ikrom Mamadov | Youth Group on Protection of Environment (YGPE) |
Sub-Regional Rep – Northeast Asia | Nina Kao | TaiwanAid |
Sub-Regional Rep – South Asia | Md. Mujibul Haque Munir | COAST Bd |
Sub-Regional Rep – Southeast Asia | Nyi Nyi Aung | Local Resource Centre Myanmar
|
Pacific | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative/s | Emeline Siale Ilolahia | Pacific Islands Association of NGO (PIANGO)
|
Sub-Regional Rep – Polynesia | Drew Havea | Civil Society Forum of Tonga
|
Sub-Regional Rep – Micronesia | Alson Kellen | Marshall Islands Council of NGOs (MICNGOs) |
Sub-Regional Rep – Melanesia | Shirley Abraham | Vanuatu Association of NGO (VANGO)
|
Europe | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Izabella Toth | Cordaid
|
Sub-Regional Rep- Black Sea | Zaur Akbar | Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Azerbaijan
|
Sub-Regional Rep- Balkan | Simona Ognenovska | Macedonian Center for International Cooperation
|
Latin America and the Caribbean | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Georgina Muñoz | Red Nicaragüense de Comercio Comunitario (RENICC)
|
Sub-Regional Rep-ConoSur | Cristina Prego | Asociación Nacional de ONGs (ANONG) |
Sub-Regional Rep – Comunidad Andina | Ricardo Jiménez | Forum solidaridad |
Sub-Regional Rep – Caribe | Jared Ortíz | Alianza ONG |
Sub-Regional Rep – Mexico and Central America | Ruben Quintanilla | MODES: Movimiento
de ONG´S para el Desarrollo Solidario de El Salvador |
Sub-Regional Rep – Mexico and Central America | Ninoska Valle | Central Nacional de trabajadxs del Campo |
Sub-Regional Rep – Mexico and Central America | Laura Becerra | Equipo Pueblo DECA and Central America
|
Middle East and North Africa | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Regional Representative | Anas El-Hasnaoui | Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)/ Espace Associatif
|
Sub-Regional Rep – Middle East | Jamal el Jawahiri | Iraqui al-Amal
|
Sub-Regional Rep – North Africa | Douha El Jourshi | ADO+
|
Sectors
Faith Based Organisations | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative | Eva Ekelund | ACT Alliance
|
Sector Representative | Shahin Ahsraf | Islamic Relief World Wide |
Sector Representative | Isaiah Toroitich | Lutheran World Federation
|
Labour | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | Diego Lopez Gonzales | International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Global) |
Giulia Massobrio | International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Europe) | |
Demba Karyon | Union des Syndicats du Tchad / International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-Africa | |
Marcela León | ASI Venezuela / Trade Union Confedration of the Americas (TUAC)
| |
Andrés Larisgoitía | CTAT Argentina / Trade Union Confedration of the Americas (TUAC)
| |
Joy Quitain Hernandez | International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-AP) |
Agricultural and Rural Development | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | Kurniawan Sabar | Institute for National and Democracy Studies (INDIES)
|
MENA | Mariam Al Jaajaa | Arab Group for the Protection of Nature
|
Africa | Gershom Kabaso | Zambia Social Forum (Zamsof)
|
Latin America | Alejandro Barrios | Instituto Politécnico Tomás Katari
|
MENA | Maha Jammoul | Consultative Center for Studies and Documentation (APN member)
|
International CSOs | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | Luca de Fraia | ActionAid International
|
Feminist Group | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sectoral Representative-Global | Patricia Akakpo | NETRIGHT
|
Eastern Africa | Mama Koite Doumbia | African Women’s Development and Communications Network
|
Asia | Shanta Laxmi Shrestha | Beyond Beijing Committee
|
Latin America | Lorena Fries | Centro regional de Derechos Humanos y Justicia de Genero: Corporació nHumanas
|
Latin America | Tania Sanchez | Coordinadora dela Mujer
|
Europe | Rosa Belen Agirregomezkorta | Centro de Estudios e Investigacion sobre Mujeres
|
Europe | Valentina Bodrug | Moldova |
MENA | Shaiek Samar | Tunisian Association for Democratic Women (Association Tunisienne des Femmes Démocrates – ATFD)
|
MENA | Nevine Ebeid/Ibrahim Nevine Ebeid Fahim | New Woman Foundation – Egypt
|
Pacific | Susana Tuisawau | Pacific Center for the Advancement of Women
|
Indigenous Peoples | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global and Asia Region | Jiten Yumnam | Forum for Indigenous People of Action
|
Africa | Celestine Akpobari | Ogoni Solidarity Forum |
Pacific | Ronny Kareni | Merdeka West Papua Support Network |
Youth | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative – Global | ||
Pacific | ||
Africa | Rita Suwun Beri | Cameroon Youths and Students Forum for Peace
|
MENA | Doha Faraj | Lebanon |
Asia | Jenison Urikhimbam | Youth’s Forum for Protection of Human Rights
|
Latin America | ||
Europe | Anton Martinov | International Youth Alliance
|
Maggie Mwape | Centre for Environment Justice (CEJ) | |
Aisah C Mariano | Asia Young Indigenous Peoples Network (AYIPN) |
Migration/Diaspora | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Sector Representative & Convenor | Aaron Ceradoy | Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants |
Pacific | Pefi Kingi | Pacificwin
|
Pacific | Mandeep Bela | The Union Network of Migrants
|
North America | Antonio Arizaga | Frente Unido De Inmigrantes Ecuatorianos
|
North America | Niel La Dode | Quebec, Canada
|
Europe | Anna Zobnina | European Network of Migrant Women
|
Europe | Paul Asquith | African Foundation for Development UK
|
Asia | Ramon Bultron | International Migrants Alliance
|
Asia | Glorene Das | Tenaganita |
Africa | Malick Sy | Senegal |
Africa |
Name | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|
Director, Financial Management Organisation and Steering Committee member | Jennifer Malonzo | IBON International
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Executive Secretary, CPDE Global Secretariat and Steering Committee member |
Roberto Pinauin | CPDE Global Secretariat |
GPEDC Non-Executive Co-Chair | Vitalice Meja | Reality of Aid-Africa
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The Coordination Committee (CC) is composed of members of the GA and acts under its supervision and mandate. The CC is responsible for:
- Following up on the decisions of the GA meetings;
- Facilitating policy development;
- Preparing the draft agenda and report for the annual GA meeting;
- Facilitating the setting up, coordination and coherence of the Working Groups;
- Overseeing the work of the Global Secretariat;
- Approving the draft annual budget for the CSO Partnership; and,
The CC meets at least once a year and reports to the GA through the Global Secretariat.
Co-Chairs | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Co-Chair | Biljana Spasovska |
Balkan Civil Society Development Network |
Co-Chair | Pedro Paolo Bocca | Associação Brasileira Organizações Não Governamentais (ABONG |
Co-Chair | Nurgul Dzhanaeva | Forum of women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan |
Co-Chair | Luca De Fraia | ActionAid Italia |
Co-Chair | Richard Ssewakiryanga | Uganda National NGO Forum |
Regions | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Africa | Blanche Simonny Abegue | Dynamique OSCAF-Gabon
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Africa | Tola Winjobi | CAFSO-WRAG for Development
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Asia | Chinara Aitbaeva | Nash Vek
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Asia | Nina Kao | Taiwan Aid |
Europe | Izabella Toth | Cordaid |
Latin America and the Caribbean | Malena Fama/Henry Morales | Red Encuentro/Movimiento Tzuk Kim Pop
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Latin America and the Caribbean | Georgina Muñoz Pavon | Red Latinoamericana por Justicia Economica y Social
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Middle East and North Africa | Anas El Hasnaoui | Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)
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Pacific | Emeline Siale Ilolahia | Pacific Islands Association of NGO
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Sectors | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Faith-Based Organizations | Eva Ekelund | ACT Alliance
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Labour | Diego Lopez Gonzales | International Trade Union Confederation
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Rural | Kurniawan Sabar | Institute for National and Democracy Studies (INDIES)
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International CSOs (INGOs) | Luca de Fraia | ActionAid International
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Feminist Groups | Patricia Akakpo | Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT |
Indigenous Peoples | Jiten Yumnam | Forum for Indigenous People of Action
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Youth | Jenison Urikhimbam | Youth Forum for the Protection of Human Rights (YFPHR) |
Migrants | Aaron Ceradoy | Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
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Name | Organisation | |
|---|---|---|
Director, Financial Management Organisation and Steering Committee member | Jennifer Malonzo | IBON International
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Executive Secretary, CPDE Global Secretariat and Steering Committee member |
Roberto Pinauin | CPDE Global Secretariat |
GPEDC Non-Executive Co-Chair | Vitalice Meja | Reality of Aid-Africa
|
Richard Ssewakiryanga
Ssewakiryanga is the former Executive Director of the Uganda National NGO Forum and a former co-chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP). He is also a Policy Anthropologist who has helped formulate national poverty reduction strategies and shape international discussions of development cooperation and effectiveness.
Nurgul Dzhanaeva
Nurgul Dzhanaeva is the President of the Forum of Women’s NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, who has also served as sectoral representative and coordinator of the CPDE Feminist Group. In over a decade of involvement in aid and development effectiveness arenas, she has demonstrated strong engagement in the struggle for democratic ownership, adequate accountability, and feminist issues at local, regional, and global levels.
Aside from her long-term engagement with CPDE, she has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Women Watch, the Regional Coordination Committee of the APRCEM, the Board of Directors of the Global Fund for Women, the Coordinating Committee of the Reality of Aid Asia-Pacific, and the Asia Pacific Research Network board. She is also an Organizing Partner of the Women’s Major Group for SDGs, and an initiator and member of the UNECE RCEM governing body.
Nurgul also holds more than 20 years of experience in women’s political participation, women’s economic rights advocacy against VAW, for SRHR, on building women’s movement in Kyrgyzstan, and strengthening capacity of women’s organizations. She is a trainer on women’s rights and served as a Global Trainer of the CSW/NGO Committee.
Biljana Spasovska
Biljana Spasovska is the Executive Director of the Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN), CPDE’s regional secretariat for the Europe region, whose action focuses on promoting an enabling environment for civil society, and effective development principles for ensuring sustainable and functioning democracies in the Balkans.
With more than 10 years of experience in the field of effective development cooperation, Biljana has proven expertise in research, monitoring, evaluation, policy and advocacy, and multi-stakeholder collaboration. She has designed and implemented international programmes related to empowering the civil society and advancing the development and the EU accession of the Western Balkans, working on collaborative projects with different stakeholders including notable regional, EU and global civil society organisations, international institutions, government agencies, and donors. As a lead representative of the Europe region for CPDE she has been actively involved in in various EU level events and international arenas including the 3rd GPEDC Monitoring round, the Belgrade Call to Action, and the organisation of the Global Civil Society Summit in 2019, and in 2022.
Luca De Fraia
Luca De Fraia is the Deputy Secretary General of ActionAid Italy, leading on institutional relationships. He has been an active member of CPDE since the Partnership’s inception, representing the ICSO sector and providing support for CPDE’s overall objectives especially in the area of policy and alliance building with other relevant CSO networks in the area of financing for development. He is also a member of the CPDE Coordination Committee, which represents civil society organisations on the Steering Committee of the GPEDC. In this capacity, he actively participated in the High-Level Meetings of the GPEDC, Mexico City (2014) and Nairobi (2016), and Geneva (2022).
Luca has been deeply committed to and involved in emerging, technical issues such as the Integrated National Financing Framework (INFF). Since 2017, he heads the TOSSD (Total Official Support for Sustainable Development) Task Force of the DAC-CSO Reference Group, and is active in discussions around financing for development. He strives to utilize every available platform in his effort to raise awareness and peoples’ concerns on effective development cooperation issues.
Pedro Paulo Bocca
Pedro Paulo Bocca is the International Advocacy Advisor of the Brazilian Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (ABONG), and a committed representative of the CPDE Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. He participated in the last two CPDE LAC Chapter Assemblies, held in Asuncion (2019) and Mexico City (2022), and in the Effective Cooperation Summit in Geneva (2022). Through his role at ABONG, he focused on global and regional CSO engagements for development effectiveness through networks and platforms (Forus, Mesa de Articulación, RePlong, CPDE, Processo de Articulação e Diálogo, among others); and participated in several conferences of the UN system, in particular the High-Level Political Forum (New York) and the Human Rights Council (Geneva). He also sustained relationship with international cooperation partners and investors, and developed strong expertise in project management, monitoring and evaluation, relationship with funding agencies and partners, and strategic planning.
Besides his political engagements with civil society groups at local, regional, and global levels, he has been a teacher of international relations and foreign policy for several public universities and academic institutions in Brazil.
The Global Secretariat supports the daily management and finances of the CSO Partnership. It is currently hosted by IBON International as CPDE’s Fiscal Management Organisation (FMO). To read the Terms of Reference of the FMO, please access it here:
Executive Secretary
Robert is responsible for the day-to-day direction, coordination, implementation, control and completion of activities of CPDE’s programme, based on the platform’s strategic objectives and outcomes.
Matt Simonds
Senior Policy Officer and Liaison
Marc Ignacio
Deputy Programme Manager and Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Responsible for the monitoring and ensuring quality and timely inputs. Develops systematic monitoring framework to improve the evidence gathered by the projects. Responsible for designing and implementing the M&E activities. Assists the Program Manager and EC Project Manager in preparing Annual reports and monitors the project activities.
Leo Pura
European Commission Project Manager
Leo coordinates CPDE’s programme cycle of planning, monitoring, and implementation, and evaluation, ensuring that outputs are aligned with the platform’s performance framework. He develops tools for monitoring and evaluating CPDE’s progress in the achievement of its programme outcomes. He also serves as the Programme Manager for European Commission-supported actions.
Glenis Balangue
Capacity Development Coordinator
Glenis helps organise initiatives that build the capacities of the CPDE membership to engage in activities around effective development cooperation. She works closely with the Network Manager to evaluate the needs of the constituents, and provide the necessary support for their active participation in the platform.
Daniela Sepulveda
Communications and Capacity Development Officer
Daniela produces and publishes materials promoting CPDE’s advocacy, and supporting its network management, capacity development, and programme and finance work. She coordinates with relevant regional and sectoral focal points, and Task Forces in bridging information exchange, between the various levels of CPDE constituencies. She also provides support to Capacity Development needs as requested by Network Manager/Capacity Development Coordinator.
Margaret Yarcia
Communications Manager
Wigen Echual
Programme Assistant
As Programme Assistant, Wigen provides assistance in all of the Programme Manager/Officers tasks requiring administrative support, such as logistics preparation for meetings and events, document archiving, documentation of meetings and conferences, budget preparation, disbursements and liquidation, and other tasks as may be deemed necessary by the Secretariat.
Alvin Villamor
Webmaster
Alvin helps ensure CPDE’s active online presence especially by maintaining a dynamic and interactive website. He also manages internal communications and knowledge management systems through the administration of mailing lists, and provides communications support through the design of CPDE’s information materials.
The members of the IAC
Emele Duituturaga
Independent Consultation for Development, Gender, Social Inclusion, Civil Society
Former Executive Director at Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO)
Former CPDE Regional Representative CPDE Asia-Pacific and Program and Finance Committee member
Elomo Andela
Advisor and Partnership Manager, Collective of NGOs for Food Security and Rural Development (COSADER)
Has socio-professional background working alongside CSOs
Has had a long experience in the field of CSO accountability, transparency and responsibility
Former African Representative, CPDE Working Group on the Enabling Environment for Civil Society and worked closely with CPDE since its inception
As with its global counterpart, regional and sectoral coordinating units operate guided by the principles of diversity, representation, gender equity, and consensus decision-making.
The regional coordinating units convene existing sub-regional platforms, development CSOs and sectoral networks/groups within the region to develop and implement a collective advocacy, outreach and capacity development work plan. Through the regional coordination committees, the regional focal person and its representative(s) to the GA are selected.
The regional coordinating units are composed of a regional representative, sub-regional representatives, sector focal persons (at least one for each recognized sector) and regional secretariat (at most two dedicated staff). They are responsible for: (1) planning, coordination, communication and financial management, (2) policy development and advocacy engagement, and (3) outreach and capacity building. Generally, these are the governance bodies that provide leadership and direction to aid and development effectiveness work within the region following the vision, mission, goals, and strategies of the CPDE. These are also the units responsible for overseeing the operations of the regional secretariat.
To date, most regions have regional secretariats responsible for: (1) network coordination, administration, and outreach, (2) documentation and information management, (3) coordinating CPDE advocacy, outreach and capacity development activities with CPDE working groups and sectoral representatives in the region ensuring smooth and timely implementation and proper representation, (4) and coordinating with the Global Secretariat on CPDE program and platform decisions, activities, and processes.
Sectors also maintain coordinating units facilitated by a global representative and composed of regional representatives. The global representative sits at the CC, while global and regional representatives sit at the GA. Regional sectoral representatives are also part of regional coordinating units/committees to ensure synergy in their work with their respective region/sub-region.
Regional Secretariats | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Asia | Sarah Torres | Reality of Aid Asia Pacific
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Africa | Alice Maina | Reality of Aid Africa
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Latin America | Georgina Muñoz | Red Nicaragüense de Comercio Comunitario (RENICC)
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Malena Fama | Red Encuentro / Multipolar | |
Henry Morales | Movimiento Tzuk Kim Pop | |
Europe | Marija Vishinova Shemova | Balkan Civil Society Development Network
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MENA | Marie-Jose Saade | Arab NGO Network for Development
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Pacific | Emeline Siale Ilolahia | Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO)
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Sectoral Secretariats | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Faith-Based Organisations (FBO) | Thorsten Göbel | ACT Alliance
|
Labour | Lorenza Lo Sasso | International Trade Union Confederation |
Rural | People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)
| |
International Civil Society Organisations (ICSO) | Luca De Fraia | ActionAid
|
Women/Feminist Group | Patricia Akakpo | Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) |
Indigenous People (IP) | Patricia Isabelle Dela Cruz | International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL)
|
Youth | Anton Martinov | International Youth Alliance |
Jenison Urikhimbam | Youth Forum for the Protection of Human Rights (YFPHR) | |
Migrants | Aaron Ceradoy | Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
|
Task Force Coordinators | Name | Organisation |
|---|---|---|
Private Sector Engagement | Tala Batangan | Reality of Aid Network |
CSO Enabling Environment/Development Effectiveness | Vitalice Meja | Reality of Aid- Africa |
Nurgul Dzhanaeva | Forum for Women’s NGOs of Kyrgystan | |
Climate Finance |
Josefina Villegas Caputti | Global Secretariat |
Nexus Issues | Jane Nabong | International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) |
