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19.-20. septembril 2012 toimus Arengukoostöö Ümarlaua eestvedamisel Balti riikide kodanikuühendustele seminar, kus tutvustati EL eelarve raamistikku aastateks 2014-2020. Õppisime, millestest elementidest see raamistik koosneb, ja arutasime, kuidas saaks ühendused mõjutada eelarvet meie arvates õiges suunas. Ürituse lõpuks panid kolme riigi organisatsioonid paika ka plaani ühiste seisukohtade esitamiseks oma riikide valitsustele. Ettekande autorid: Evelin Andrespok ja Piret Hirv.
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Tallinn, 19-20 September 2012
Funded by:
September 19
o Overview of EU policy making system
o What is CONCORD? How to work with it? What is AidWatch?
o Developments in the Baltic States
o What is the MFF?
o Georgian dinner
September 20
o Advocacy training
o Meeting with Estonian MFA
o Action plan for Baltic States
o The world is developing: increased standards of living, 27 countries recently moved from category (LICs to LMICs or from LMICs to UMICs) (DAC list)
o New actors: private sector, private foundations, emerging donors, local authorities
o Population growth: world population to reach 9.3bn by 2050; Africa fastest-growing continent
o 3 global crises: food prices, oil/energy prices volatility, economic and financial crisis
o Economic downturn & budget constraints
o 'Arab Spring': importance of good governance and democracy, employment and growth, security-development nexus brought into sharper focus
o Changing geography of poverty (EMEs, poor in MICs, rising inequalities…)
o Regional vulnerabilities & crises: Horn of Africa (drought/famine)
o Strong growth but weak effect on poverty reduction – African Economic Outlook Report: 2001-09: 5-6% real GDP /slowdown; 2009 3.1% – rebound; projection 5.8% in 2012
Agenda for Change (October 2012) sets two pillars for EU development policy:
1. Good governance, democracy and human rights
2. Inclusive and sustainable growth
CONCORD
Millions of citizens and donors
Around 2000 NGOs
27 NATIONAL
PLATFORMS
18 NETWORKS
+ 2 Associate members
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Members of CONCORD
47 members in 2012 (27 NP, 18 NW, 2 AS)
2 new members as of 5 June: LU (NP) and WWF (AS) ActionAid International NW
Aprodev NW
Austrian NP
Belgian NP
UK NP
Caritas Europa NW
CIDSE NW
Czech NP
Danish NP
Dutch NP
Islamic Relief NW CARE International NW
Eurostep NW
Finnish NP
French NP
German NP
Greek NP
IPPF NW
Irish NP
Italian NP
Luxembourg NP
Maltese NP
Portuguese NP
Slovakian NP
Solidar NW
EU-CORD NW
Spanish NP
Swedish NP
Terre des Hommes NW
Slovenian NP
Representing around 2000 European Development and Relief
NGOs
World Vision NW
Adra NW
CBMI NW
Plan International NW
Oxfam International NW
Latvian NP Polish NP
Romanian NP
Hungarian NP
Cyprus NP
ALDA – Associate member Estonian NP
Handicap International NW
Save the Children NW
Bulgarian NP
Representation of its members
Advocacy at European Level
Information – Dissemination –
Coordination
Capacity Building
Alliances Building (north / south
cooperation)
1 per Year
All members (at least one per member)
70/80 participants
9 members + President
Elected for 3 years
Joanna Maycock from Action Aid International
Director : Olivier Consolo
15 people
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
BOARD
PRESIDENT
STAFF Secretariat
Confederation Affairs Communication
Administration/Finance Policy
CONCORD vision is of a world in which poverty and inequality
have been ended; in which decisions are based on social justice, gender equality and upon our responsibility to future generations; where every person has the right to live in dignity, on an equal basis, free from poverty and sustainably.
CONCORD Mission:
CONCORD members work together to ensure that: • The EU and member states are fully committed to comprehensive
policies and practice that promote sustainable economic, social and human development, aim to address the causes of poverty, and are based on human rights, gender equality, justice and democracy;
• The rights and responsibilities of citizens and organised civil society, to influence those representing them in governments and EU institutions, are promoted and respected.
Priorities and approaches Aims
• To influence the EU’s policies and practices so that the Union and its member
states enhance social justice, equality and human rights throughout the world.
• To promote the rights and responsibilities of citizens, development NGOs and,
where relevant to CONCORD’s influencing agenda, civil society as a whole to
act in solidarity with those living in poverty and to influence their representatives
in governments and EU institutions.
Approaches
• Human rights and gender equality will underpin all advocacy work.
• CONCORD will strengthen our political engagement with the institutions.
• CONCORD will develop strategic alliances with southern, European & global
coalitions.
• CONCORD will support the organisational development of its members.
• CONCORD will ensure our collective decision making combines efficiency with
confederation ownership, and supports active participation of all members in its
activities.
• CONCORD will base our work on members’ energies, supported by a
secretariat; balance our income sources to ensure our independence and
sustainability, and manage finances prudently.
European Commission: various Directorate-Generals (DevCo, Climate,
Agriculture, Budget, Trade etc.), Commissioner and their Cabinets (most
importantly Development Commissioner Piebalgs), Comitology Committees
(i.e. DCI Committee)
EU Council: Permanent Representations, CoDev working group, Foreign
Affairs Council, Informal Development Cooperation Ministers Meeting,
national government representatives (done by CONCORD’s national
platforms)
Parliament: Committees (DEVE, SURE, Human Rights etc.) and their
Secretariats, individual MEPs
European External Action Service: High Representative and her Cabinet, EU
delegations in third countries
PS! National platforms on national level
Operational bodies
The working groups are at the core of the organisation of CONCORD. They convene experts from CONCORD members. Their main charge is to analyse and follow up European policies. The General Assembly takes formal decisions such as approval of the annual budget and the annual report on accounts, acceptance of new members, etc.
The Board bears the overall responsibility for the functioning of the whole structure. It make sure that priority issues are dealt with by the secretariat and that advocacy positions have the endorsement of the members. The Secretariat focuses on the priority issues. It follows the work of the Working groups and ensure communication in a comprehensive manner to the broad membership.
The projects: Projects are in charge of raising awareness of development issues in
the enlarged EU and in accession countries. Trialog increases the capacity of
European NGOs. DEEEP raises awareness on Development Education. Open
Forum promotes CSO effectiveness. (BEYOND 2015)
Importance of CSOs in policy making
Olivier Consolo, Director of CONCORD
Aid we can – invest more in global development
Part I: Overview of developments in 2011
Part II: EU and Member States pages
Launched June 2012
o The MDGs – only three years to go and critical global objectives on poverty reduction still to be met
o Current decrease in aid risks slowing down the positive achievements of the previous years
o EU´s role as aid champion threatened. EU MS need to get back on track
o Continued strong support of EU citizens for aid in 2011
o Overall ODA was €490 million lower than in 2010 - from almost €53.5 billion to €53 billion.
o ODA as % of GNI for the EU 27 reached 0.42% (EU15 = 0.45% EU12 = 0.1%)
o EU12 = 1.8% of the total or €958.4 million
o 11 countries cut their ODA budgets in 2011 (only 9 in 2010)
o 5 reduced their ODA by more than 10%: Greece (-39%), Spain (-33%), Cyprus (-28%), Austria (-14%) and Belgium (-13%)
o 7 Member States provided less than 50% of their commitment (Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania and Slovak Republic)
o Estonia 0.12%, Latvia 0.07%, Lithuania 0.13%
o Sweden reaffirmed its commitment to deliver 1% of GNI as ODA and delivered 1.02% in 2011
o Luxembourg delivered 0.99% inODA and Denmark 0.86% in ODA. Denmark is using its presidency of the EU to push other EU Member States to reach 0.7%
o Germany increased its aid by € 648 million, although it remains 0.11% below its 2010 target
o Apart from Cyprus, all EU 12 Member States increased their aid, although the remain some way from meeting their targets.
o Other positive developments in EU Member States on aid quality
o In 2011, 6 EU Member States delivered at least 0.55% (0.2%) of their GNI as ODA, a level that would demonstrate they were steadily increasing their aid to meet the targets in 2015
o 4 met the EU target of 0.7% in 2011
o 2 countries were on-track to meet the target in 2015 (below 0.7%, but above 0.55% (0.2%))
o 3 countries made progress towards the target (they are at 2010 levels)
o 18 countries are off-track and are not even reaching the interim target they had taken for 2010
Total EU aid: € 53 billion
Genuine aid: € 45.65 billion
Inflated aid: € 7.35 billion
- Debt relief € 2.43 billion
- Refugee costs € 1.82 billion
- Imputed student costs € 1.61 billion
- Tied aid € 0.98 billion
- Interest on loans € 0.51 billion
86%
3%
5% 3%
2% 1%
Genuine aid
Imputed student costs
Debt relief
Refugee costs
(Partially) tied aid
Interest repayments
Luxembourg, Ireland and the United Kingdom are champions in genuine aid.
The Member States that inflate their aid the most are: o Greece = 36% (0.11% -> 0.07%)
o Cyprus = 36% (0.16% -> 0.1%)
o Italy = 31% (0.19% -> 0.13%)
o Malta = 28% (0.26% -> 0.19%)
o France = 27% (0.46% -> 0.33%)
o Austria = 22% (0.27% -> 0.21%)
o Estonia 0.12% -> 0.11%
o Latvia 0.07% -> 0.07%
o Lithuania 0.13% -> 0.12%
o ODA decreasing and 0,7% target
o Climate finance and additionality
o Transparency
o Changes in the systems of ODA
o CSO involvement
o EU Accountability Report
o Second AidWatch Report o Three thematic pages:
• Transparency
• Gender
• HRBA
o Annual AidWatch Seminar
o FAC in October
o EC Communications
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