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TRIALOG IV

November 2012 Page 1 of 39

TRIALOG IV Final report Sept12

ANNEX VI

FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT

This report must be completed and signed by the Contact person.

The information provided below must correspond to the financial information that appears in the

financial report.

Please complete the report using a typewriter or computer (you can find this form at the following

address <Specify>).

Please expand the paragraphs as necessary.

Please refer to the Special Conditions of your grant contract and send one copy of the report to

each address mentioned.

The Contracting Authority will reject any incomplete or badly completed reports.

Unless otherwise specified, the answer to all questions must cover the reporting period as specified

in point 1.6.

Please do not forget to attach to this report the proof of the transfers of ownership referred to in

Article 7.3 of the General conditions.

1. Description

1.1. Name of beneficiary of grant contract: HORIZONT3000

1.2. Name and title of the Contact person: Christine Bedoya, TRIALOG Director

1.3. Name of partners in the Action:

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe e.V./AGEH, Germany

Civil Society Development Foundation, Romania

CONCORD a.i.s.b.l, Belgium

Development and Education Centre European Perspective, Greece

Ekumenicka akademie Praha, Czech Republic

eRko – Christian Children Communities Movement, Slovakia

Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali – Malta (Kopin), Malta

Light for the World – Christoffel Development Cooperation, Austria

Lietuvos Kolpingo draugija/ Kolping society Lithuanian, Lithuania

Polish Humanitarian Organisation, Poland

Terre des Hommes Foundation “Lausanne” in Hungary, Hungary

1.4. Title of the Action: TRIALOG IV: Strengthening Civil Society for Development

Cooperation in the enlarged EU

1.5. Contract number: DCI-NSA/2009/205-592

1.6. Start date and end date of the Action: 23.9.2009 – 22.9.2012

1.7. Target country(ies) or region(s):

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The 12 new EU member states (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Malta,

Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia. Slovenia), Accession countries and all

Candidate Countries (esp. Western Balkan), Austria and Belgium, all EU countries that had

the EU presidency in the project duration (Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Poland,

Denmark, Cyprus).

1.8. Final beneficiaries &/or target groups1 (if different) (including numbers of women and

men):

CSOs, CSO coordination bodies and national platforms in the 12 countries that joined the EU

in 2004 and 2007

Other non-state actors especially universities, trade unions, foundations, the North-South-

Centre of the Council of Europe etc.

CSOs and CSO coordination bodies in CC and countries that will start the EU Accession

negotiations before or during the project implementation (Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,

Serbia)

Local Authorities in NMS where appropriate

National NGDO platforms in EU countries that had the EU presidency

1.9. Country(ies) in which the activities take place (if different from 1.7):

Additionally to those in 1.7. we did a development conference and project field visits in Nicaragua.

2. Assessment of implementation of Action activities

2.1. Executive summary of the Action

Please give a global overview of the Action's implementation for the whole duration of the

project

TRIALOG supported CSOs in NMS to strengthen their national platforms in all aspects of

organisational development and financial sustainability. TRIALOG supported networking and

provided capacity building for development policy and advocacy for development topics and shared

relevant information on European level. TRIALOG supported the full and active participation of

NMS platforms in CONCORD and other European networks, encouraged regional partnerships

(between NMS but also NMS and OMS) and facilitated joint projects. In AC, TRIALOG identified

CSOs interested in international development, supported their networking and building of national

platforms and encouraged their inclusion in relevant European networks and working groups.

One highlight of TRIALOG’s work was the conference in Nicaragua on “Global Crossroads: The

Role and Perspectives of CSOs in Development Cooperation” in November 2010, which provided

space to reflect on these issues in the North and South and promote inclusive and sustainable

development. The conference was organised by TRIALOG, HORIZONT3000 and the University of

the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Cost in Nicaragua (URACCAN) with the participation of

around 120 representatives of CSOs from various parts of the world. Following the conference,

TRIALOG arranged one week of field visits for around 30 participants from the 12 NMS to different

development projects in the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast in Nicaragua. Participants

and national platforms concluded that there is a need for more exposure to the South.

Other highlights were the 2nd

and 3rd

TRIALOG partnership fairs, which took place in Vienna in 2010

and 2011. The 2010 Partnership Fair gathered 153 participants (53 from Old Member States and 100

1 “Target groups” are the groups/entities who will be directly positively affected by the project at the Project

Purpose level, and “final beneficiaries” are those who will benefit from the project in the long term at the

level of the society or sector at large.

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from New Member States) from 25 countries (12 New Member States and 13 Old Member States) and

at the end of the partnership fair there were 17 joint project proposals. At the extra partnership fair in

2011 there were 120 participants from 24 EU countries and at the end there were 15 partnership

agreements for joint projects signed.

All activities were carried out, indeed even more activities than foreseen were carried out, with more

representatives from EU12 benefiting from them. At the end of the project, all national platforms from

EU12 are official members of CONCORD and participate actively on European level, even if this

participation is often still limited due to limited human resources in the platforms and their members.

The active participation in policy and advocacy on European level will be a main focus of the

continuation project TRIALOG V.

2.2. Activities and results

Please list all the activities in line with Annex 1 of the contract since the last interim report

if any or during the reporting period

Activity 1:

Title of the activity: Conference at location W with X participants for Y days on Z dates

Topics/activities covered <please elaborate>:

Reason for modification for the planned activity <please elaborate on the problems -

including delay, cancellation, postponement of activities, change in target, etc - which have

arisen and how they have been addressed> (if applicable):

Results of this activity <please quantify these results, where possible; refer to the various

assumptions of the Logframe>:

TRIALOG engaged in 5 main groups of activities: Policy & Advocacy Dialogue, East-West-South-

Trialogue, Resource & Knowledge Centre, Information-Platform, and Coordination & Networking.

I) POLICY DIALOGUE

1. Policy & Advocacy

TRIALOG continued to convene the CONCORD working group on Enlargement, Pre-Accession and

Neighbourhood over the three years of the project phase.

Almost all of the EU12 members of CONCORD participate in the CONCORD policy forum, which is

the main policy body within the confederation and meets three times per year. The TRIALOG policy

officer was an observer in the Policy Forum as the convenor of EPAN, and the TRIALOG director

also participated as an observer, to ensure coordination and streamlining between CONCORD policy

priorities and the support offered to the EU12 platforms. TRIALOG further supported the

participation of EU12 members in the CONCORD Policy Forum, which were all CONCORD

members by the end of the project phase, through information sharing and the offer of preparation

meetings in cooperation with the CONCORD secretariat.

Over the three years of the project, participation varied between 3 and 7 EU12 representatives taking

part in the meeting, but generally attendance was higher in 2011 and 2012 than earlier.

Policy Forum EU12

2009 October TRIALOG, CZ, HU, LV, PL, SI 5

2010 March TRIALOG, CZ, EE,LV, PL 4

June TRIALOG, CZ, EE, SI, SK 4

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October TRIALOG, EE, LV, MT 3

2011 March TRIALOG, CZ, EE, LV, PL 4

June TRIALOG, BG, CZ, HU, LV, PL, SI, SK 7

October TRIALOG, CZ, EE, LV, PL, SI, SK, 6

2012 March TRIALOG, CZ, EE, HU, LV, PL, SI, SK 7

June TRIALOG, CZ, EE, PL, SK 4

Visits and meetings with relevant EU institutions were organised where appropriate, and were

concentrated around the three study visits each year.

Research and consultations on current development topics included preparation for and activities

related to all three central training events. The first central training event of the project phase was

devoted to the Lisbon Treaty and its implications for civil society. A lot of work was undertaken

related to the theme of transition, which fed into the EC process of compiling the European Transition

Compendium, now an interactive online database. This included engagement with the EC process,

involving the EC consultant in EPAN meetings and work; providing information on consultations to

EU12 platforms so that they could engage and organising a central training event on the topic.

Another main area included supporting CONCORD work on creating a development framework to

replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015, with an EU12 conference and central training

event devoted to the topic in 2012. The main conference in Nicaragua was devoted to the role of

CSOs in development and development paradigm change.

TRIALOG continued to provide advice on policy dialogue with national counterparts, for example by

supporting various platforms with best practice examples of national co-funding programmes for EC

projects; supporting the exchange of experience on national Memoranda of Understanding between

platforms and Ministries of Foreign Affairs; and supporting exchange on the development of a

national development education strategy.

Advocacy work towards the European institutions was not necessarily carried out directly by

TRIALOG, but staff members supported advocacy activities of those in the EU12, such as requests

that came from Baltic participants in the TRIALOG study visit in 2012 for their national

representatives in the permanent representations to support their advocacy towards the EC regarding

the low level of funding being allocated to EU12 project proposals. TRIALOG representatives

actively participated in the European Commission’s DEAR study and the structured dialogue process

with the EU institutions.

TRIALOG supported the following platforms in national advocacy initiatives in EU12:

Activity Country Date Number of

Participants

Organiser

First national meeting for

development education in

Bulgaria

BG 12-13 September

2012

45 (first

day)

78 (second

day)

Bulgarian

platform BPID

with its members;

C.E.G.A.

Foundation and

GIP

Building effective

partnerships, for development

cooperation

LV 13 September 2012 16 LAPAS, the

Latvian Platform

for Development

Cooperation

Preparation of post-2015 SLO 13 September 2012 11 SLOGA

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MDG campaign Slovenian Global

Action platform

2. Study Visit Development Policy

Study visits on development policy were organised each year for a different group of EU12 platform

members. In the first year this group was composed of Bulgarian and Romanian participants, the

second year was focused on Cypriot, Maltese and Slovenian platform members and the third year

involved 15 CSO representatives from the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Each week-long study visit had a thematic focus and involved meetings with stakeholders in the

European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee, the

Permanent Representations to the EU of the individual countries concerned, the European External

Action Service (once it had been created) and CSO partner organisations in Brussels.

The agenda was designed in such a way that space was provided for group preparation meetings, free

time for individual meetings with country MEPs and an evaluation process, which included platform

planning for follow up activities.

Although it was originally planned that the study visits would be both in Brussels and Strasbourg,

once TRIALOG had carried out research into the relevance of including Strasbourg-based

organisations in the programme, it was decided that this would not be the best allocation of resources.

3. EPAN

TRIALOG continued to convene the EPAN working group, before handing over responsibility at the

end of the project phase to members of the steering group and the CONCORD secretariat.

It was agreed that TRIALOG’s position as convenor was assuming too much responsibility with

regard to drafting policy positions, following up with commitments that individual group members

had taken and providing the structural support to the group. Members were relying too heavily on

TRIALOG support without taking responsibility for their own participation and so the decision was

taken at the beginning of 2012 for TRIALOG to give up this role at the end of the project phase.

The TRIALOG policy officer managed a transition period in the final six months or so of the project

phase and responsibility for the various tasks was taken on by various steering group members, two of

whom were newly recruited. The group built up a degree of momentum that should ensure the

working group continues to be active in the future.

EPAN EU12/AC/CC

2009 October TRIALOG, BG, Croatia, EE, HU, MT, PL, RO, SK 7

2010 March TRIALOG, BG, Croatia, HU, MT, SI, Turkey 4

October TRIALOG, BCSDN2, BG, CY, EE, HU, MT, PL, RO, SI 8

2011 April TRIALOG, BCSDN, BG, CY, CZ, EE, HU, LV, PL, SI, SK 9

November

TRIALOG, BCSDN, BG, CZ, EE, HU, LV, Montenegro, PL,

SK

7

2012 March TRIALOG, BCSDN, BG, CZ, HU, Macedonia, PL, RO, SI, SK 7

2 BCSDN – Balkan Civil Society Development Network

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4. CONCORD Working groups

TRIALOG has always worked to support the active participation of EU12 platforms in the various

working groups of CONCORD.

A lot of work was invested throughout the project in sharing information and advice among the EU12

regarding important working groups, including certain events and activities undertaken by those

working groups. Financial support was provided to those platforms that were not yet CONCORD

members to engage in CONCORD working groups and processes in anticipation of their membership.

TRIALOG capacity building officer participated as observer in the CONCORD working group on

Funding for Development and Relief (FDR). During the reporting phase, the FDR working group met

three times. Whenever physical participation was not possible (e.g. because of overlap with other

events), contact has been maintained with both the organisers of the meeting (i.e. CONCORD

secretariat) and with EU12 delegates. TRIALOG supported exchange among EU12 representatives at

the FDR working group through the offer of EU12 pre-meetings prior to the working group meetings

to share information about relevant developments with regards to FDR and the EU12 context and to

discuss priorities and points for action. Following FDR working group meetings, TRIALOG

disseminated relevant information to EU12 platforms, including those not represented in the working

group. Currently, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia have permanent

delegates to the FDR working group but only attend sporadic; Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania and

Slovakia might be able to send representatives in the future; Estonia, Lithuania and Malta are not

sending participants.

There was always an issue of capacity of EU12 platforms within the TRIALOG IV project – even

those platforms wishing to be involved in multiple working groups did not have the human resources

to be as engaged as they hoped. This is being addressed in TRIALOG V with the appointment of

liaison officers in each of the platforms to ensure the platform has a person dedicated to following

European level policy work.

5. Step-by-Step guide to Policy & Advocacy

The TRIALOG Advocacy Guide: 12 Years of TRIALOG – Advocacy Successes from EU-12 was

published in September 2012 after extensive research in cooperation with EU12 platforms. The guide

covers the steps involved in creating an advocacy strategy and the different kinds of advocacy

activities that exist, with best practice examples from EU12 platforms and organisations. It also

provides an additional focus on certain special stakeholders and extra input on the opportunities

available to platforms in countries holding the EU presidency. The strong focus on EU12 experience

in this area means it contributes a new angle to the large number of advocacy guides that currently

exist, and partners and colleagues have welcomed its publication.

From the logical framework:

For Expected Result Nr. 2: Advocacy and Policy work for NMS issues has been diversified and

directed to European and National levels

Indicators Results

Active participation of NMS

platforms in CONCORD lobby

and advocacy activities and

initiatives.

In the big lobby and advocacy activities and initiatives, there

was certainly active EU12 participation.

The AidWatch report launch has seen increased involvement

across the EU and now, national report launches are also taking

place to complement the European level report. National reports

include those in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland.

The advocacy group had significant engagement by EU12

members, with a member from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,

Estonia and Hungary.

TIS reference http://trialog-information-

service.blogspot.be/2012/03/aidwatch-activities-reloaded.html

Slovenia provides a good example of EU12 involvement in one

http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.be/2012/03/aidwatch-activities-reloaded.html

http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.be/2012/03/aidwatch-activities-reloaded.html

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major development topic: Policy Coherence for Development

(PCD). Slovenia for example was involved in the CONCORD

mass lobby that took place to ensure separate council

conclusions on PCD in May 2012. They also provided the

European Rapporteur in the European Parliament with

recommendations on PCD. More details can be found on p.68 of

the TRIALOG Advocacy Guide: 12 Years of TRIALOG –

Advocacy Successes from EU12

An initiative that came from the Latvian national platform is the

idea of having 2015 designated as the European year of

development. This has received a lot of support from

CONCORD, but also thanks to coordinated advocacy work, it

has also found support in the European Parliament and

European Economic and Social Committee.


service.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/2015-as-year-for-

development.html

There was also great involvement from EU12 platforms in the

CSO development effectiveness agenda and engagement in the

High Level Forum (HLF) in Busan. This was particularly

evident in the Polish platform, which held the presidency during

the HLF and which managed to get CSO members included in

the official delegation.

Until the end of the project at

least 8 platforms in at least 1

CONCORD working group

promoted common initiatives

vis-á-vis MEPs, DG Dev and

Members of the Co-financing

Committee on national as well

as European Level

The Baltic platforms worked together during the TRIALOG

study visit to lobby their permanent representatives about the

low level of funding going to EU12 organisations for

Development Education projects.


service.blogspot.be/2012/06/successful-study-visit-to-brussels-

for.html

A great deal of EU12 platforms were also involved in the

DARE forum initiative for a European Parliament declaration

on Development Education. This involved EU-wide advocacy to

get MEPs to sign up to the declaration.


service.blogspot.be/2012/06/dare-forum-european-parliament-

mass.html

EU12 platforms also brought the transition experience

perspective into discussions on the Structured Dialogue of

2010/2011 and on the future budget of the EU in the

Multiannual Financial Framework work.

During the project period, each

NMS platform implemented at

least one Lobby and Advocacy

activity with the involvement

of CSOs and perspectives from

the South on a national NMS

level

Almost all EU12 platforms have a national level development

day or days, which is a yearly event for advocacy and

networking and where they involve partners from the South.

The Slovenian platform SLOGA for example has shared

experiences of its development days during TRIALOG 4:

2009: http://trialog-information-

service.blogspot.be/2009/10/development-days-from-slovenia-

to.html

2010: http://trialog-information-

service.blogspot.be/2010/11/slovenian-development-days.html

The conference in Nicaragua sparked follow-up activities across

the EU12, notably in Latvia where joint advocacy took place

regarding the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)

Many references to platform advocacy activities with the

http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/2015-as-year-for-development.html



http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.be/2012/06/successful-study-visit-to-brussels-for.html



http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.be/2012/06/dare-forum-european-parliament-mass.html



http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.be/2009/10/development-days-from-slovenia-to.html



http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.be/2010/11/slovenian-development-days.html

http://trialog-information-service.blogspot.be/2010/11/slovenian-development-days.html

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involvement of Southern partners can be found in the TIS

archives, for example:

Slovenian joint advocacy with Afghan representatives - TIS

reference http://trialog-information-

service.blogspot.be/2010/02/slovenia-visit-from-

afghanistan.html

During the project period, each

NMS platform supported at

least one Lobby and Advocacy

activity of Southern CSOs in

their respective country

A significant amount of activity took place across the EU12

involving Southern CSOs in various advocacy initiatives. These

varied from events in Slovakia involving Belarusian partners to

activities in Bulgaria involving Balkan colleagues. More

examples are in the description of the activity above.

At the end of the project a

Step-by-Step guide to Lobby &

Advocacy has been elaborated

and published on the

TRIALOG website

The TRIALOG Advocacy Guide: 12 Years of TRIALOG –

Advocacy Successes from EU-12 was published in September

2012

II) EAST-WEST-SOUTH-TRIALOGUE

6. Development Cooperation Conference

The international conference on Development Cooperation took place in Managua (Nicaragua) in the

second project year. Additionally, TRIALOG cooperated in the organisation of an International

Conference on “Promoting Human Rights – Empowering Civil Society”, co-organised by

HORIZONT3000 and TRIALOG from 25-27 June 2012 in Vienna. Details can be found under 8.

Exchanges.

7. Field Visit

The field visits took place in Nicaragua in the second project year.

8. Exchanges

In 2012, EU12 national platforms were consulted with regards to their preferences for the annual

exchange activity. Initially, an exchange about volunteer sending programmes was proposed. Other

suggested topics were: aid transparency; effectiveness, quality and impact of CSOs after Busan;

human rights and development (as an exchange activity within the frame of an International

conference organised by the TRIALOG lead agency HORIZONT3000 in cooperation with

TRIALOG). After approaching potential partners for such an activity and exchanging with

CONCORD about the work they are doing in their own working group on CSO development

effectiveness, it was decided to support two activities: National platforms were encouraged to engage

in CONCORD’s very new working group on CSO development effectiveness and CONCORD

confirmed their interest in increased EU12 participation especially also in this context.

At the same time, platforms were encouraged to send representatives to the International conference

on “Promoting Human Rights – Empowering Civil Society”, organised by HORIZONT3000 and

TRIALOG from 25-27 June 2012 in Vienna. TRIALOG supported the participation of 22 CSO

delegates representing 9 EU12 countries and Serbia. More than 100 representatives of human rights

CSOs gathered at this conference to present and discuss principles, strategies and methods to

strengthen their working structures and exchange of good practices and project experiences. The

conference was an opportunity for CSOs from Africa, Latin America and Oceania, as well as from the

EU12, the Western Balkans and local Austrian organisations to debate in-depth human rights,

advocacy and lobbying and the sustainable strengthening of civil society. TRIALOG received very

positive feedback from the participants who reported that many ideas were shared and contacts built

across continents.

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9. Partnership Fair

Due to the significant success of the previous TRIALOG Partnership Fair held in February 2010 -

when many of the later EC-funded development education projects under NSA-LA line were

conceived – and at the request of EU12 platforms and their members, TRIALOG organised another

partnership fair in September 2011, which was additional to the foreseen project activities.

120 civil society representatives from 24 countries across the EU got together to work on possible

joint projects for the NSA-LA Development Education call.

The Partnership Fair facilitated partnerships, cooperation, learning and exchange at an international

level for joint projects for development. Key development actors contributed as speakers, facilitators

or participants.

Elements of the event were:

Presentations on EuropeAid funding mechanisms

A Market Place for the presentation of the participating organisations

Expert Presentations on how to write a project proposal and how to secure co-funding

concrete work on project ideas and shaping up project proposals for future calls

The networking happened through the market place, a set up where all the participants had the

opportunity to present their organisations (activities, vision, future project plans etc) as well as

through numerous formal and informal spaces for dialogue among all the different stakeholders.

The concrete activity of project design and planning was framed by the open space methodology, an

innovative tool that allows with great flexibility planning, organising and reflecting in smaller or

bigger groups as decided and formed in place by the participants. The many working groups further

divided themselves as needed and sometimes re-convened and merged, resulting 15 concrete project

proposals.

Speakers from various European NGDOs (Polish Humanitarian Organisation, CONCORD and bengo) and the Austrian and Czech development agencies provided participants with a multi-

stakeholder view of the European funding instruments for external assistance, practical proposal

writing tips, experiences for private fundraising and partnership experiences.

10. Partner Search

Beyond the successful Partnership Fairs, TRIALOG continued in assisting CSOs to find partners

among CSOs and LAs for joint projects. In addition to the online NGO database, between September

2011 and September 2012 TRIALOG processed around 15 individual partner search requests for

common projects in development education or other fields to bring together NGOs from NMS and

OMS. This was done through distribution of partner searches to TRIALOG contacts and publishing

most of the requests on our website and/or in our e-newsletter TIS. With regards to the content, the

organisations were looking mainly for partners in the field of development education for the NSA/LA

calls of the European Commission, but also different activities such as the European Corps for

Volunteers or regional programmes focussing for example on the Danube region. TRIALOG received

positive feedback about the usefulness of this partner search support. Additionally, many NGOs go

directly on the TRIALOG on-line database to look for potential partners for joint projects. TRIALOG

also linked its partner search with other partner search fora such as that of TACSO and of the Malta-

EU Steering and Action Committee MEUSAC.

As a result of the East-West-South Trialogue it is interesting to know where NMS are active in

development cooperation. Thus, at the end of TRIALOG IV we did some research on the partner and

priority ODA countries in EU12 and found quite a diversification in comparison to the situation some

5 years ago. CSO participation in ODA programmes is important in all NMS and thus, for most

partner countries there is also CSO cooperation (apart from those, where only technical cooperation

like students costs is covered). An overview of the TRIALOG findings:

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Partner and Priority Countries for EU12 ODA

Country Priority Countries Source

BG Priority: Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Kosovo,

Moldova and Macedonia

Other Mongolia

CONCORD Aid Watch report

and

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/accou

ntability/eu-annual-accountability-

reports/documents/working-document-

vol5_en.pdf

CY Project countries: Autonomous Palestinian

Territories, Egypt, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mali

and Yemen.

Technical Assistance Countries: Armenia,

Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia-

Herzegovina, Gambia, Georgia, Indonesia,

Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,

Pakistan, Sudan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

http://www.planning.gov.cy/planning/pla

nning.nsf/AttachmentArchive/1D6633BC

4757FC74C2257599003BAF12/$file/Cy

prusAid%20Brochure%20Eng.pdf?opene

lement

CZ Programme Countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia

–Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Moldova,

Mongolia

Project Countries: Georgia, Cambodia,

Kosovo, Palestinian Autonomous

Territories, Serbia

Continuation Countries: Angola, Yemen,

Vietnam, Zambia

http://www.mzv.cz/public/d9/f6/92/5458

20_444905_Development_Cooperation_

Strategy_2010_2017___final.doc

EE Priority Countries: Afghanistan, Moldova,

Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan

Partner Countries: Ukraine, Georgia,

Armenia, Albania, Tajikistan, Moldova,

Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Belarus and

Azerbaijan, Ghana, Palestinian Territories,

Humanitarian Aid: Haiti, Lebanon, Sudan,

Iraq, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iran,

Turkey, India and Pakistan

http://www.vm.ee/?q=en/taxonomy/term/

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HU Priority countries: Serbia, BIH, Moldova,

Vietnam, Palestine Authority

Project based partners: Ukraine, Kosovo,

Montenegro, FYROM, Kyrgyzstan,

Mongolia, Yemen, Laos, Cambodia, Sub-

Saharan Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq

MFA Presentation:

http://www.google.ro/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=

&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=7&ve

d=0CEUQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2F

capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu%2Fsystem%2

Ffiles%2Ffile%2F09%2F07%2F2012_-

_1434%2Fhungary_by_adam2.pdf&ei=A

vtfULbIOoaVswbwjIHABg&usg=AFQj

CNHCgloFc7oSnp2_tOE6_jXFZpchkw

&sig2=cEbKThzjuDVsD4GsekBm3Q

LV 2004 - 2010 partner countries: Georgia,

Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as in

Afghanistan.

Latvia’s Development Cooperation Strategy

up to the year 2015 advances as the priority

regions the Eastern Partnership states within

the EU Neighbourhood Policy, the countries

of Central Asia, as well as the countries in

http://www.am.gov.lv/development%20c

ooperation%20strategy%202011-

2015_eng.pdf

http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/accountability/eu-annual-accountability-reports/documents/working-document-vol5_en.pdf




http://www.planning.gov.cy/planning/planning.nsf/AttachmentArchive/1D6633BC4757FC74C2257599003BAF12/$file/CyprusAid%20Brochure%20Eng.pdf?openelement





http://www.mzv.cz/public/d9/f6/92/545820_444905_Development_Cooperation_Strategy_2010_2017___final.doc



http://www.vm.ee/?q=en/taxonomy/term/55

http://www.vm.ee/?q=en/taxonomy/term/55

http://www.google.ro/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=7&ved=0CEUQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcapacity4dev.ec.europa.eu%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Ffile%2F09%2F07%2F2012_-_1434%2Fhungary_by_adam2.pdf&ei=AvtfULbIOoaVswbwjIHABg&usg=AFQjCNHCgloFc7oSnp2_tOE6_jXFZpchkw&sig2=cEbKThzjuDVsD4GsekBm3Q









http://www.am.gov.lv/development%20cooperation%20strategy%202011-2015_eng.pdf



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which Latvia’s military missions or the state

dispatched civil experts are located.

Kirgizstan is also a programme country in

2012 (according to CONCORD Aid Watch)

LT Programme countries 2011: Afghanistan,

Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Palestine

2010: Belarus

Priority countries: Afghanistan, Belarus,

Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine

MFA Website:

http://www.urm.lt/index.php?343958539

MT Focus areas:

Sub-Saharan Africa, Horn of Africa:

Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia

Small (Island) States:

Middle East: Palestinian Territories

MFA Website:

http://www.foreign.gov.mt/Library/PDF/

Malta's%20Overseas%20Development%

20Policy%20eng.pdf

PL Priority: Afghanistan, Angola, Belarus,

Georgia, Moldova, Palestinian Authority,

Ukraine

Remaining countries:

South-eastern Europe (Albania,

Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Montenegro, Macedonia, and

Serbia)

The South Caucasus (Armenia,

Azerbaijan)

Central Asia (Kazakhstan,

Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,

Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).

Other small projects in Africa, Caribbean

and Latin America (partner countries not

specified)

http://www.polishaid.gov.pl/Interesting,p

rojects,577.html

RO Priority and attention countries: Moldova,

Serbia, Georgia, Iraq

Other countries (2011): Belarus, Caucasus

and Central Asia, Egypt and Tunisia

Humanitarian Aid (2011): Pakistan,

Thailand, Libya, Afghanistan, Palestine

MFA 2011 Report:

http://www.mae.ro/sites/default/files/file/

userfiles/file/pdf/aod/2012.08_oda_rapor

tare_2011_en.pdf

SK Programme countries: Afghanistan, Serbia ,

Kenya

Project countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia

and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Ethiopia,

Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,

Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Sudan,

Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and

Vietnam

http://www.foreign.gov.sk/en/foreign_pol

icy/slovak_aid#basicparameter

SI PRIORITY:

Western Balkan: Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania

and Kosovo

Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus:

Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova,

Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan.

Africa: Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Niger,

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

http://www.mzz.gov.si/fileadmin/pageupl

oads/Zunanja_politika/RA/Publikacija_

MRSS_2010_EN.pdf

http://www.urm.lt/index.php?343958539

http://www.foreign.gov.mt/Library/PDF/Malta's%20Overseas%20Development%20Policy%20eng.pdf



http://www.polishaid.gov.pl/Interesting,projects,577.html

http://www.polishaid.gov.pl/Interesting,projects,577.html

http://www.mae.ro/sites/default/files/file/userfiles/file/pdf/aod/2012.08_oda_raportare_2011_en.pdf



http://www.foreign.gov.sk/en/foreign_policy/slovak_aid#basicparameter

http://www.foreign.gov.sk/en/foreign_policy/slovak_aid#basicparameter

http://www.mzz.gov.si/fileadmin/pageuploads/Zunanja_politika/RA/Publikacija_MRSS_2010_EN.pdf



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DRC, Ruanda, Sudan, Burkina Faso,

Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Sierra

Leone, South Africa, Chad.

OTHER: Haiti, Afghanistan, Palestinian

Territories

From the Logframe

Ad Expected Result Nr. 1: The trialogue among CSOs and other NSA of East-West-South has

been deepened

Indicators Results

A representative number of people

from East, West and South have

participated in the development

conference in the first project year in

Managua as participants and speakers,

resource persons and facilitators.

The TRIALOG conference in Nicaragua on the topic "Global

Crossroads - the Role and Perspectives of CSOs in

development cooperation" was the main event of the project

and brought 30 representatives from NMS to Nicaragua where

they met around 20 participants from OMS and around 60

participants from CSOs from different countries in Latin

America, Africa and Asia. 5 participants from EU12 were

involved as speakers in the conference and another 5 as

working group facilitators/minutes takers.

At the additional international conference on Human Rights in

Vienna 2012 which was co-organised by TRIALOG, another

22 participants from NMS had the possibility to exchange

with 40 CSO representatives from countries of the global

South and around 60 CSO participants from OMS.

At the end of the project period each

NMS-platform and their member

organisations are in direct contact with

potential partner organisations from the

South

Please see description under 2.2. "East-West-South

Trialogue" (this chapter)

12 representatives from NMS visited

development cooperation projects in

Central America.

All 30 NMS representatives who attended the conference

participated in the field visits to development cooperation

projects in Nicaragua.

150 participants from CSOs and other

NSA as well as local authorities from

East, West and South and from

different societal sectors participated in

the Partnership Fair and elaborated at

least 15 joint projects.

The Partnership Fair 2010 gathered 153 participants (53 from

Old Member States and 100 from New Member States) from

25 countries (12 New Member States and 13 Old Member

States) and at the end of the partnership fair there were 17

joint project proposals.

At the extra partnership fair in 2011 there were 120

participants from 24 EU countries and at the end there were

15 partnership agreements for joint projects signed.

III) RESOURCE & KNOWLEDGE CENTRE

11. Training

Throughout the project phase, the training events were planned with the EU12 national platforms

through a consultation process based on the TRIALOG training offer. The implementation of the

activities and the logistical administration was supported by the platform. Whenever possible, former

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participants of the TRIALOG Training of Multipliers were involved as additional resource persons or

co-trainers in the activity to increase the multipliers’ involvement in platform activities.

TRIALOG supported 15 training events during the reporting phase, gathering a total of 178

participants. The details of the training events are summarised in the table below:

Name of Training Country Date Number of Participants

Trainer

EuropeAid Standard

Contract Management

SLO

13-14 December 2011 10 Faika El-Nagashi

(TRIALOG)

Ales Rovsnik

(SLOGA,

Participant of the

ToM)

Emilia Nunnari

(TRIALOG)

Public-private

partnership and

effective CSR

PL

28-29 February 2012 12 Petra Kreinecker

(Independent

consultant)

The use of media for

development education

and awareness raising

BG

30 May – 1 June 2012

and 3-4 June 2012

(4 days)

28 Pavel Antonov

(BlueLink

Foundation)

CYINDEP in house

training for platform

staff on the

development discourse;

stakeholder analysis of

CYINDEP

CY

13-14 June 2012 5 Kerstin Wittig

(CYINDEP)

Jale Canlibalik

(Participant of the

ToM)

How to prepare “the”

successful EC project

application

CZ

4-5 September 2012 22 Greta Jensen

(Independent

consultant)

Practical knowledge

about applying for

development related

projects

HU

11 September 2012 5 Viktoria Mihalko

Fundraising and PR

training for members of

the Hungarian NGDO

platform HAND

HU

12-13 September

2012

20 Tamás Miha

(HumanDialog)

Lobbying and advocacy

workshop for members

of the Lithuanian

Umbrella (LU)

LT

7 September 2012 9 Šarūnas Frolenko

(Independent

consultant)

Politics and practices of

development

cooperation in Poland

LT

21 September 2012 10 Monika Matus

(Grupa Zagranica,

Poland)

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with a focus on Eastern

Neighbourhood

Translating

development work on

the ground into policy

formulation and

advocacy (2)

MT

11 July 2012

19 July 2012

10 (Focus

group)

8

Anna Maria

Mangion

William Grech

and Dominik

Kalweit (SKOP)

Effective volunteer

management (2) MT

14 September 2012

18 September 2012

4

5

Nicola Critien

Anna Maria

Mangion

Fundraising in the

private sector SI

10 September 2012 13 Vesna Savnik

Advocacy seminar SI

3 September 2012 17 Sam Hardy (NDP

UK)

The evaluations of the training events are very positive and platforms continue to express the need for

various kinds of capacity and skills building training on national level but, as was started in the 3rd

project year, these activities will be decentralised to the national platforms within TRIALOG V.

12. Pool of Multipliers

In 2010, TRIALOG offered the first training course for multipliers in development cooperation – to

create a pool of multipliers in the area of DC within member organisations of EU12 platforms. The

2010 training of multipliers (ToM) was attended by 23 participants and was held in three modules

focusing on (1) introduction to EU development policy and EU funding for development, (2) project

cycle management and (3) adult learning models and facilitation skills. In 2011, 12 participants took

part in a two module training that also included both content and facilitation related topics and centred

on (1) EuropeAid Standard Contract Management and (2) monitoring and evaluation of projects.

During the reporting phase, the second module of the Training of Multipliers (ToM) training cycle

2011 as well as an additional training module in 2012 was concluded.

The second module of the 2011 training cycle provided further input and training on theories and

practice related to facilitation and the design of trainings (e.g. group dynamics, communication) as

well as intense training on monitoring and evaluation approaches and tools, specifics of the guidelines

of the then current call for proposals under the NSA-LA programme and exchange about the visibility

requirements for EuropeAid funded projects.

The second module and the whole 2011 training cycle were evaluated very positively. At the same

time, participants stressed the need for further training and theoretical inputs (related to the field of

development cooperation). Consultation with the platforms also showed that a crucial question for the

success of such trainings was with the selection of the participants and the design of the modules (i.e.

balance between providing input and providing training as multipliers). Through this consultation

process, it was eventually decided not to offer a new training cycle for multipliers in 2012 but to build

on the existing groups of trained multipliers (from ToM 2010 and 2011) and their high level of

motivation and to offer one additional module to (1) deepen the knowledge and expertise around

issues of development cooperation and development education and awareness raising, and (2) discuss

ways of further involvement as resource persons in the activities of TRIALOG. Thus, the objectives

of the 2012 module were:

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- to deepen the knowledge and expertise about DC related issues with specific relevance to EU12

- to enable exchange and peer-learning between the 2010 and 2011 groups of multipliers

- to foster collaborations between multipliers in DC for EU12 platforms and their members

- to develop relevant capacity building offers for EU12 platforms and their members

The 2012 module took place from 25 to 27 May 2012 in Vienna with 9 multipliers (2 participants of

the ToM 2010, 6 participants of the ToM 2011 and one additional participant representing the Cypriot

EU presidency project). The training focused on various DC and DEAR related topics, including CSO

development effectiveness and policy coherence for development, as well as project implementation

techniques such as time management and systematisation processes, intersectoral cooperation with

academia that reflected on gender, diversity and body politics in the field of development cooperation,

as well as further training on facilitation skills. At the end of the module, participants committed to

remain connected as an informal network and to express their wish to stay connected with TRIALOG

and get further involved in TRIALOG activities. Participants were also given the opportunity to make

use of the TRIALOG information platform to promote the resources of the TRIALOG pool of

multipliers towards the national platforms and their member organisations.

13. Central Training

The TRIALOG Central Training 2012 – the annual exchange meeting for EU12/AC NGDO platforms

– was organised in 2012 in cooperation with FoRS, the Czech national NGDO platform in the format

of a two-day event from 24th to 25th of April 2012 in Prague. The first day looked at current debates

around “Beyond 2015” that envision a new global development framework after the MDGs. EU12/AC

platforms presented their work around specific elements and related their own perspectives of and

approaches to a new development framework. This first day was organised as a regional deliberation

conference with the participation of additional stakeholders (e.g. Czech MFA and Development

Agency representatives) and was strongly supported by the Beyond2015 campaign. Tanya Cox, co-

chair of the European Task Force of the Beyond2015 campaign, presented the global deliberation

process and encouraged conference participants to further engage in the topic on national levels and to

contribute to the process.

The second day focused on the exchange between platforms and provided an overview of the platform

situation, the challenges in each national context and discussed the needs and assets each partner

brings to a project – and potentially network – like TRIALOG. Some of the shared needs centre

around securing the financial sustainability of the platform, improving cooperation with national

governmental partners and increasing the capacity of the platform and its members with regards to

policy and advocacy work (e.g. around PCD, networking and partnerships, awareness raising with the

media and general public). The exchange also highlighted the diverse assets of each partner and the

potential for mutual support and cooperation through bilateral or regional activities.

As at previous Central Trainings, representatives of CONCORD presented the annual priorities of the

European confederation and highlighted opportunities for involvement and synergies. A valuable

contribution to the Central Training came also through Markus Pirchner who represented the

EuropeAid Development and Cooperation Directorate-General. He gave an outlook on the EC’s future

DEAR programme for the period 2014-2020 and opened up the floor for an engaging Q&A session.

This Central Training marked the last of the platform exchange meetings in the current phase of the

TRIALOG project (TRIALOG IV). It also saw the broadest spread of participation of not only

EU12/AC platforms but also CSO partners from the Western Balkans. 45 participants representing

EU12/AC NGDO platforms and CSOs from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and

Herzegovina contributed to the event and confirmed the continued need for increased cooperation –

preferably within the context of TRIALOG V, the next phase of the project.

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14. Organisational Development

As mentioned earlier, upon consultation with NGDO platforms and approval by the EC, the

Organisational Development Winter School was replaced by a third edition of the Partnership Fair.

However, those platforms that had expressed a need for undertaking organisational development

training or another organisational development event for the platform were offered such a possibility

(see table below). Additionally, topics related to the organisational development of platforms were

incorporated in the Central Training event in Prague.

Activity Country Date Number of

Participants

Organiser

3 strategy meetings of the

DEAR working group within

the Bulgarian Platform for

International Development

(BPID) to discuss the policy

paper “DEAR in Bulgarian

context“ and organise the

round table “Best practices in

DEAR in Bulgaria“

BG

18 July 2012

21 August 2012

5 September 2012

6

9

6

BPID - Bulgarian

Platform for

International

Development

CYINDEP in House Training

for platform staff on the

development discourse;

stakeholder analysis of

CYINDEP

CY

13-14 June 2012 5 CYINDEP –

Cyprus Island

wide NGO

development

platform

Review of the LAPAS

strategy LV

7-8 September 2012 19 LAPAS - Latvian

Platform for

Development

Cooperation

Organisational development

of the Lithuanian Umbrella

(LU)

LT

8 September 2012 9 Lithuanian

Umbrella (LU)

which unites the

National NGDO

Platform and the

Lithuanian

Development

Education and

Awareness

Raising Network

(LITDEA)

Fundraising possibilities for

the Platform

SK

10 August 2012

20-21 August 2012

7 September

6

7

6

Honza Kroupa

(Czech

Fundraising

Center)

Peter Gustafik,

(PDCS)

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Strategy and organisational

meeting for platform staff and

board members

SI

27 August 2012 9 SLOGA

Slovenian Global

Action platform

15. Professional Development

In the three years of the project there was very high staff turn-over, mainly due to maternity leave.

This meant a lot of in-house-training for new staff in order to pass on the experience of TRIALOG

and to ensure continuity.

The capacity building officer position was first assumed by Petra Kreinecker who finished her work

with TRIALOG at the end of September 2009. We then engaged Ruxandra Tanase who went on

maternity leave in the beginning of July 2011. Her maternity leave replacement Faika El Nagashi

started in September 2011 and participated in two training events on Logframe and on EC contract

management. She left TRIALOG at the end of May 2012 at a very short notice. There was no

replacement for the remaining months as it is not realistic to employ a highly qualified person for only

3 months (end of maternity leave of MsTanase in September) and over the summer period there is less

work than at other times of the year. The tasks in this time were covered by the remaining team,

mainly be the TRIALOG director and the information officer.

The information officer position had Anita Bister in the beginning of the project who was already

working with TRIALOG in previous phases. As consequence of pregnancy she left TRIALOG in May

2010 and Ulrike Bey was selected for this position. She had a broad working experience in the field,

thus no additional “information” training was necessary but participation in policy relevant events

was agreed. Ms Bey went on maternity leave in February 2012 and the TRIALOG project assistant

Elisa Romero was appointed as her maternity leave replacement.

In the position of policy officer (based in Brussels) Rebecca Steel continued from the former

TRIALOG phase. She went on maternity leave in July 2010 and her maternity leave replacement was

covered from September 2010 onwards by Monika Matus. Ms. Matus was offered work with the

Polish platform for the EU presidency project from May 2011 onwards and thus, the position

remained vacant till the return from maternity leave of Rebecca Steel in September 2011 and the tasks

were mainly covered by the TRIALOG director in the meantime. After maternity leave Ms. Steel only

returned part-time, thus we employed additionally Mirjam Sutrop as Junior Policy Officer from

January to July 2012 (6 months) to complete the policy tasks.

Brigitte Quehenberger, who was already in previous TRIALOG phases, continued in the project

assistant position till she went on maternity leave in June 2010. Her maternity leave replacement was

covered by Elisa Romero from September 2010 onwards. Ms. Romero changed to the position of

information officer in February 2012 (maternity leave replacement) and for the remaining time of

TRIALOG IV, Marie-Therese Filip was employed as project assistant.

In the position of TRIALOG director Christine Bedoya who has been working with TRIALOG since

2003 continued for the whole project period. Due to time restraints, no professional development

activity was done in the last project year.

16. Platform Support

The following activities were realised in the project period with 11 of the EU12 platforms (all

countries but Estonia) with the support of TRIALOG. The Estonian platform had no specific need for

platform support and no human resources to realise additional activities.

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Countr

y Platform Activity Title of activity

BG BPID policy consultancy

Strengthening the activities of DEAR working

group within BPID

improvement of information

services

Enhancing the Quality and Content of BPID’s

website

The Bulgarian Platform for international Development (BPID) realised three strategy meetings of the

DEAR working group to plan and discuss the policy paper “DEAR in the Bulgarian context” and to plan

the first national meeting for development education, held on 12th and 13

th of September 2012 in Sofia. The

event gathered more than 70 participants from ministries, NGOs, teachers and school principals to discuss

global education within the school curriculum in Bulgaria. Members from the board of the platform

presented development education practices and the work of the CONCORD DARE Forum. The brochure

“History of development policy at the EU and international level” also published with the support of

TRIALOG and the policy paper “DEAR in the Bulgarian context” were distributed to all participants.

Further teachers were provided with methodology and contents to integrate development education topics

in their work with school classes. The meeting was an important step towards a memorandum with the

Ministry of Education on DEAR policy in Bulgaria and the need to include it in the Bulgarian education

system. Moreover, the platform intends to expand the created network of teachers and practitioners, which

will be maintained by the appointed liaison officer within TRIALOG V. Finally, the First national meeting

for Development education sets the beginning of activities, which the platform intends to undertake,

including monthly meetings of the DEAR working group as well as organisingf a second national meeting

on development education during the next year.

Additionally the bilingual website www.bpid.eu of BPID was improved and updated and 10 new member

presentations, as well as 15 project summaries were uploaded. An IT course for 5 representatives of the

platform was organised to guarantee a constant update of the contents provided.

CY CYINDEP

policy consultancy

develop policy positions for the Cypriot EU

Presidency 2012

training for platform or

members

capacity building training programme tailored to

the newly recruited CYINDEP staff for the EU-

presidency 2012

The Cyprus Island wide NGO Development Platform CYINDEP compiled three policy position papers on

relevant development policy issues: Post-2015 development framework; The Multi-Annual Financial

Framework of the EU and its implications on the development agenda and Role of Citizens in

Development. CYINDEP had several meetings with decision-makers in order to disseminate the papers and

discuss its contents and relevance. The papers are also disseminated at CYINDEP events and other

meetings with MEPs, MFA, Permanent Representations and UNDP in Cyprus.

The CYINDEP team has only recently started to work in the context of the Presidency of the European

Union in the second half on 2012, therefore TRIALOG supported capacity building for team members in

the format of a two-day training on international development policies. Further the training contained a

stakeholder analysis, which was especially useful for the implementation of the EU Presidency project.

After the training regular follow-up discussions took place, as well as linking the training content to on-

going events and policy development on EU level.

http://www.bpid.eu/

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/cyindep_trialog_policypaper_post2015.pdf

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/cyindep_trialog_policypaper_mff.pdf


http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/cyindep_trialog_policypaper_citizensindev.pdf


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CZ FoRS

training for platform and

members

Training on how to prepare the successful EC

project application


services

Improving the FoRS websites and forum.fors

functions and design

FoRS, the Czech Forum for Development Co-operation implemented two-day training on how to prepare

“the” successful EC project application for representatives of their member organisations. Therefore an

external consultant was invited to introduce the 22 participants to the planning and developing of EC

proposals using the logical framework. The feedback was very positive and participants were happy with

the training.

Furthermore the standard of information sharing and promotion of FoRS activities and development issues

provided by FoRS to its members and the general public were improved by reworking the organisation’s

website www.fors.cz.

HU HAND


members Fundraising training for Hungarian NGDO’s


services Update the Hungarian Platform website

According to the needs expressed by their members, the Hungarian NGDO platform HAND implemented

one day training on practical knowledge about applying for development related projects and two-day

training on PR/Communication and fundraising, focused on campaigning.

The HAND website www.hand.org.hu was updated to make it more user-friendly and to make the

Hungarian NGDO sector more transparent. News was made more visible and a project database was

installed.

LV LAPAS policy consultancy

Building partnerships for effective coordination

of development cooperation

organisational development

of platform Review of LAPAS strategy

LAPAS, the Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation, organised an event to build effective

partnerships, and define shared visions, fields of activities and common actions for stakeholders working

within the field of development cooperation. On 13 September, 16 participants from different sectors

(NGOs, local and central government, academics, enterprises and MFA) took part. The event was

successful also for LAPAS, as participating NGOs showed interest to join the platform. Participants highly

evaluated the possibility of finding contacts and working on joint actions for development cooperation.

In a two- day workshop from 7 to 8 September 2012, LAPAS evaluated its work to review the strategy of

the platform and develop new activities. An external speaker from the Slovenian platform SLOGA was

invited to the workshop, which gathered 19 participants, representing 12 organisations.The speaker’s input

was highly evaluated and led participants to start work on the Latvian EU presidency project. In order to

ensure the quality of the workshop a professional trainer was consulted for the methodology and the

moderation.

In the strategic planning of LAPAS it was indicated that for more effective partnership and advertising of

LAPAS members there is a crucial need to develop the existing database (already supported by TRIALOG

http://www.fors.cz/

http://www.hand.org.hu/

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I and II), which could be realised with the support of TRIALOG IV. Further the strategic planning

workshop showed a high need for attractive internet based communication materials. Together with one of

the leading PR companies LAPAS developed the concept of an advertising animation that shows the

essence of development cooperation, encourages participating and reflects the variety of different member

organisations.

LT LU /

LITDEA


of platform Preparation of LU strategy paper


members, organisational

development of platform

Evaluation of Lithuanian NGDO’s work;

preparation for Lithuanian EU presidency,

including capacity building in preparation and

AidWatch report

The upcoming Lithuanian EU Presidency highlights the need for team building among members of the

governing boards of the Lithuanian Umbrella (LU). Therefore an organisational development workshop

was organised on the 8th of September near Trakai in Lithuania. This team building workshop was

designed and led by an experienced facilitator who individually interviewed the participants prior to the

workshop for a better understanding of the structure as well as internal and external activities of the

umbrella organisation. The workshop helped to identify a common vision for the LU, to set internal

communication channels and means, to plan future activities and divide roles as well as responsibilities.

The workshop participants confirmed the need of such team building activities and were very satisfied with

the results, therefore the format is planned to be conducted in the future.

To deepen the platform analysis a research was carried out which fed into a LU strategy paper prepared in

English and Lithuanian. Therefore a survey was sent out electronically to member organisations and

personal interviews were conducted. The process was accompanied by regular discussion meetings within

the platform to develop joint solutions.

Also in September, representatives of Lithuanian development NGOs met for a lobbying and advocacy

workshop in Vilnius. The basis for this capacity building activity was a lack of efficient lobbying and

advocacy capacities recognised by Lithuanian development NGOs. The workshop was led by the

experienced Lithuanian lobbyist Šarūnas Frolenko. The trainer introduced participants to best practices as

well as necessary competences for engaging in such activities, which are considered crucial before and

during the upcoming Lithuanian EU Presidency, and which will definitely allow representatives and

members of the Lithuanian Umbrella - LU to engage in the necessary policy development and consultation

with the decision-making institutions in Lithuania. Workshop participants actively and willingly

participated in the practical tasks, which were based on a real situation of development cooperation and

development education policy in Lithuania.

Another one day workshop was organised on Politics and Practices of Development Cooperation in Poland

with a focus on Eastern Neighbourhood. For the input, Monika Matus of the Polish platform Grupa

Zagranica was invited. She could not only share the information about projects in the Eastern

Neighbourhood but also valuable experience from the Polish EU Presidency and how the platform linked

their activities to it.

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/lu_strategy_paper_report.pdf

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MT SKOP training for platform or

members

Two workshops, a seminar and a focus group for

NGDOs who are current or potential

members of SKOP.

Publish and disseminate the

study within the Maltese, the

Mediterranean and the

European development

cooperation networks

Coordination and dissemination of the study

"Maltese NGOs, Local Councils & International

Development Cooperation"

Due to the growing need of Maltese development NGOs to participate in policy processes, in order to bring

about sustained long-term changes, SKOP organised a workshop for member organisations to raise

awareness of this. A focus group of 10 people was formed to map the situation and the ideas were then

discussed during the workshop “Translating development work on the ground into policy formulation and

advocacy”.

Volunteering is becoming more popular in Malta, therefore SKOP organised a seminar and workshop on

effective volunteer management to help NGOs involved in overseas services and development to improve

their work in preparing and managing volunteer programmes. The workshop provided a space to share best

practices among participating NGOs.

SKOP published the study “Maltese NGOs, Local Councils & International Development Cooperation”

written by members of the platform board. The report provides information from Maltese CSOs which are

active on issues related to global development issues and/or migration, and from local councils, about

organisational structures, focus areas of work, knowledge about development policies and their opinions

about related matters.

PL Grupa

Zagranica GE quality

Capacity building in the field of global

education – quality in global education (GE)

The Polish platform Grupa Zagranica provided their members engaged in Global Education with

knowledge and tools to enable them to evaluate and improve the quality of their work. Therefore

consultations took place which involved the Global Education working group within the platform and

questionnaires were sent to the members. The Global Education working group prepared the report “How

to measure quality in global education. Results of the peer review of global education publications and

activities” which then was disseminated among platform members, the MFA and the Centre for Education

Development, a national teacher training institution.

RO FOND improvement of information

services

The Improvement of FOND's communication

tools

Based on the needs expressed by all members of the Romanian platform, FOND designed and produced a

set of communication materials to improve its visibility in term of members’ expertise, results, areas of

work, policy issues and monitoring the implementation of the Romanian development policy. The

following material was published:

- Annual Report 2011 which describes the main activities implemented by FOND and its members

during the last year.

- The FOND brochure which emphases on the main areas of FOND interventions, according to its

mission (in Romanian and English)

- The catalogue of FOND members presenting all members and their involvement in development

cooperation activities.

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- The newsletter for members (in Romanian and English).

- The website www.fondromania.org was redesigned.

SK MVRO


services

Update of the website of the Slovak NGDO

Platform www.mvro.sk


of the platform

Capacity building training / consultancy for the

Slovak NGDO Platform - Fundraising

possibilities for the Platform

The Slovak NGDO platform MVRO organised a four-day consultancy/training for members of the

secretariat and the board to explore how to manage and find sustainable sources of funding for the

platform. An international consultant was invited for one day to draw the current picture of the platform’s

financial and fundraising framework. Then two days of training was held to identify all possible

fundraising activities which could be done by the secretariat of MVRO. The last day was dedicated to

concrete planning of the next steps.

MVRO updated the website of the platform www.mvro.sk to improve and modernise its online services.

SI SLOGA


of platform, improvement of

information services Preparation of post-2015 MDG campaign


of platform

Strategy and organisational structure and

fundraising capacity building of SLOGA


of platform, training for

platform or members

Capacity building of the platform and its

members in advocacy

evaluation, organisational

development of platform

Developing a model of evaluation of Slovene

development assistance

The Slovenian platform SLOGA realised several activities to develop and improve the organisational

structure and strategy of the organisation. In August 2012 a meeting with staff and board members

was held to discuss strategic guidelines for SLOGA’s future functioning, thematic priorities, service

provision and institutional set up. The participants decided on concrete steps and prepared a draft

strategy paper.

SLOGA engaged in the post-2015 MDG campaign, therefore the policy working group within the

platform organised a meeting with the MFA in September to discuss the priorities to be included in

the future Slovene National Resolution for Development Cooperation post-2015. The information for

the post-2015 campaign was uploaded on the SLOGA website and included in articles of the

organisation’s newsletter.

Also in September a fundraising seminar was organised for the platform and 13 of its member

organisations addressing how to approach the private sector, introduction methods of fundraising and

practical examples. A second seminar focused on advocacy aimed at strengthening the ability of

SLOGA and its member NGOs to undertake domestic and EU-level advocacy. From discussions

during the workshop it is very clear that the NGO community and the government would benefit

significantly from a more collective and coordinated approach from NGOs towards advocacy. It was

agreed that SLOGA should initiate such joint actions in the future.

http://www.fondromania.org/

http://www.mvro.sk/

http://www.milenijski-cilji.org/post-2015.html

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SLOGA developed an evaluation model for assessing impact of NGO development programmes of

projects. The model focuses on project impact assessment incorporating a set of key development

effectiveness criteria promoted by the NGOs. A pilot evaluation applying the model was undertaken

in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to test the application and collect pilot evidences in a

report. The evaluation model is promoted among NGOs in Slovenia and will be shared with other

NGO platforms abroad.

In addition to specific training and other capacity building events, during the reporting phase

TRIALOG supported the participation of EU12/AC delegates in the following events:

Aid Watch Annual Seminar (by CONCORD)

ARCADIA Conference

CONCORD General Assembly

DARE Forum (of CONCORD)

EPAN Meeting (of CONCORD)

European Development Days in Poland

European Network Academy (of Attac)

Fair Trade Conference

Fundraising for Development and Relief (FDR Working Group of CONCORD)

GCAP Europe Annual General Assembly

International Conference for Sustainable Development

Nyeleni Food Sovereignty Forum

International Conference of the Palacký University in Olomouc “Europeanization, specialization, or

both?”

Red Cross Training "Field Logistics in Emergencies"

Red Cross Training "Managing People and Projects in Emergencies

Red Cross Training 'Sanitation'

From the Logframe:

Ad Expected Result Nr. 3: The level of knowledge and skills on Development Cooperation and

Development Education issues of CSOs and other NSA from NMS/ AC/CC has been improved

Indicators Results

40 CSO representatives participated

during 3 years in different Study Visit

on Development Policy, Expert

Sending, Development Education,

Development Cooperation, Lobby &

Advocacy etc

Altogether, 89 CSO representatives participated in the Study

Visits and the so-called Exchanges over the 3 year project

duration:

3 study visits to Brussels: 35 participants

Exchange 2009/Expert seminar on the future of CSOs: 29 PA

Exchange 2011/Rural development: 3 participants

Exchange 2012/ Human Rights and CS: 22 participants

300 CSO-representatives from the 12

NMS and all AC/CC participated in

trainings during the project period

Altogether 621 CSO representatives participated in

TRIALOG training:

year 1: 219 participants



At the end of the project a Pool of 20

multiplier from 7 countries is trained

Altogether, 35 Multipliers from all 12 NMS were trained:

year 1: 23 persons

year 2: 12 persons

year 3: deepening module for 9 persons who already

participated in year 1 and 2

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Every year platforms from all NMS and

AC/CC participated actively in the

annual Central Training

Every year, representatives from all EU12 were invited but

due to time constraints, volcano eruption and sickness, not

always all EU12 could be represented. But the information

(presentations, minutes etc.) was shared among all platforms

afterwards.

Year 1: 21 participants from 11 NMS

Year 2: 19 participants from 10 NMS + AC/CC

Year 3: 45 participants representing EU12/AC NGDO

platforms and CSOs from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro

and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Until the end of the project in all AC,

Platform Building Seminars took place

and a coordination body is created

The only AC is still Croatia where we did two platform

building seminars and there is a coordination body

coordinated by the Centre for Peace Studies. Additionally, we

did a platform building seminar in Macedonia and there is a

group of CSOs exchanging information received from

TRIALOG. In order to start the platform building process in

all CC, we did a Balkan partner seminar in Vienna in 2012,

where representatives from Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,

Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina participated.

IV) INFORMATION – PLATFORM

17. TIS - TRIALOG Information Service

During September 2011 and September 2012 nine issues of the electronic newsletter TIS (TRIALOG

Information Service) were published, distributed and simultaneously made available on the

TRIALOG website. Due to staff changes caused by a maternity leave replacement in the period, one

issue fewer than initially planned was published. As of September 2012, there are 2952 TIS receivers,

58 per cent from the NMS and Accession Countries, 33 per cent from OMS and industrialised

countries and 9 per cent from the Global South. The newsletter is further distributed among platform

members, and articles are sometimes translated into the languages of the NMS. The database was

updated in the summer 2012 and email addresses that no longer work were removed, so the number

declined minimally.

The TIS contains news from EU12/AC development CSO platforms, development NGOs across

Europe and relevant EU development policy topics. Articles are written by the TRIALOG team, by

TRIALOG partners and CSOs from EU12/AC who report on development cooperation related news

and events from their countries. Authors are both directly approached for articles, and submit their

articles upon the general call for contributions. Country representation in terms of contribution and

reporting reflects also the degree of activity of the platforms and their members. TRIALOG strives for

an even distribution and encourage platforms which are underrepresented to become more active in

sharing news.

In the 3 years project, there were a total of 254 articles from EU12 platforms and their member

organisations: BG 10; CY 22; CZ 32; EE 11; HU 13; LT 14; LV 8; MT 13; PL 32; RO 35; SK 28; SI

36.

After the feedback following the survey in March 2011 a new reader friendly html-format of the

newsletter was developed, for which TRIALOG received positive feedback. It was first published in

September 2011.

18. TRIALOG Website

The Website is updated regularly with articles and information focussed on development issues in the

context of EU enlargement. Some changes in the website structure were included in order to make its

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use easier and more interesting. On the website we present interesting material and all TRIALOG

events are documented including reports, presentations, audio files and video clips of key events and

messages, useful information and links. By using Web 2.0 tools like RSS-feeds, Facebook, video

documentations etc. interactive exchange is possible. In August 2012 TRIALOG started to renew the

website which was launched by the end of the project phase. The website got a new design, which

makes it more modern and a new, user friendlier structure. The visibility of donors and partners (since

October 2012 the new partners of TRIALOG V) is higher as they appear with logos and direct link on

the front page. The country information on the enlarged EU is easier accessible via the EU map on the

front page and flexible information boxes allow displaying the latest and most relevant news. The

“news” menu includes TRIALOG and EU12/AC CSO platform news. A calendar under the

“activities” menu is another new feature, where TRIALOG, CONCORD, EU12/AC CSO platform

and other relevant dates can be shared.

A special login area for partners facilitates the sharing of documents, for example minutes and

presentations of meetings, reports from internal events etc. and provides a space to share files among

the EU12/AC development CSO platforms. The login area is hosted by the TRIALOG staff and

accessible for TRIALOG partners.

In January 2012 TRIALOG created a profile on Facebook (www.facebook.com/trialognetwork) where

relevant news and information is posted regularly. Facebook is also used as a medium to link with

TRIALOG partners, EU12/AC development CSO platforms and other development actors across

Europe and beyond.

19. Database

A special part of the TRIALOG website is the online database of development CSOs which enables

CSOs in addition to the TRIALOG partner search to search for project partners on their own by

looking through CSO profiles and contact details, published on the web. This database is regularly

updated and enlarged, and currently there are more than 654 public NGO entries; the number has

increased from 630 since September 2011.

20. Printed Bulletin

The annual printed bulletin provides background information reflecting developments in the

TRIALOG target region and TRIALOG’s work. The targeted readers are CSOs/NSA and officials

who are interested in CSO activities in the enlarged EU and AC/CC. As the distribution is the most

effective if it is linked to a big event, the 2012 edition was published before the HORIZOINT3000

conference on Human Rights and the Study Visit to Brussels in May 2012. The 2012 issue includes a

review of last year’s TRIALOG activities such as the “Partnership Fair”, the conference “Advancing

Beyond 2015” on EU12 contributions to a development framework after the MDGs and the East-

West-South exchange of NGO representatives on the topic of rural development. Further contents are

relevant policy processes like the Multiannual Financial Framework of the EU and CSO Development

Effectiveness. It also provides an insight to Civil Society Organisations preparing for the upcoming

EU presidencies in Cyprus (2012) and Lithuania (2013).

The publication is distributed at various seminars and training events, as well as via the EU12/AC

platforms and CONCORD to a wider public. It is also available in electronic form and online to

ensure broad distribution and readership.

21. Articles

TRIALOG staff contributed articles towards a wide range of NGO publications of key TRIALOG

partners like CONCORD, DEEEP, and other stakeholders. The aim is to make the activities of EU12

and AC/CC CSOs and their contribution to international development cooperation more visible to a

broader community. TRIALOG also contributed to the electronic newsletter and the annual report of

its lead agency HORIZONT3000.

http://www.facebook.com/trialognetwork

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22. Country Reports

Within the reporting period TRIALOG published three new country papers on the Accession and

Candidate Countries Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro in January and March 2012. These country

papers focus on the status of development cooperation in the respective countries as well as the

situation of the civil society. The reports are available online on our website and were promoted via

our distribution channels, TIS newsletter and Facebook.

23. Information Distribution

In addition to regular publications such as TIS, updates on the website and the bulletin,

TRIALOG makes sure to continuously inform its target group, especially the NGDO

platforms in the EU12 and CSOs in AC/CC. This information distribution via email contains

important development issues, latest publications and upcoming events, information on EC

calls for proposals, possibilities for funding, partner searches for joint projects and

possibilities to engage in international campaigns. Information is sent at least five times a

week.

V) COORDINATION & NETWORKING

24. Networking

Networking on national (platforms) and international level (CONCORD, other networks and families,

other stakeholders) was continuous. Coordination and networking is not only realised with

NGDOs/CONCORD but also with other stakeholders like the coordination of political foundations,

the coordination of Trade Unions and the North South Centre. There is also strong networking with

the national platforms of the countries that have or prepare their EU presidencies. Of course,

additionally to the networking we specifically support NMS who have or prepare for the presidency

which in the last year were the Polish, the Cypriot, the Lithuanian Umbrella (both Lithuanian

platforms) and Latvian NGDO platforms. In order to create synergies, we try to bring these platforms

together with experienced NMS (like Slovenia and Poland) or OMS that have the EU presidency

before or after, such as Denmark and Ireland.

From 3 to 5 November, 2011, the TRIALOG director was in Lithuania to support the Lithuanian

NGOs in the preparation of the Lithuanian EU presidency and to support the cooperation of the two

national platforms (Litdea and Platform) in the creation of the Lithuanian Umbrella. Another task was

to speak at the development conference in the Lithuanian Parliament on 4 November and to support

CSO participation in international development.

On 8 November, TRIALOG director and policy officer participated in a meeting between the board of

CONCORD and representatives from EU12 on the situation in their countries and their engagement in

CONCORD. TRIALOG also actively participated in the special event on CONCORD identity and

branding on 9 November, 2011.

TRIALOG director and policy officer participated in the European Development Days in Warsaw on

15 and 16 December and organised an exchange meeting for all representatives from EU12.

Additionally, as the main topic of the EDDs was on EU neighbourhood (Eastern Partnership and Arab

Spring) which is a very relevant topic for all EU12, TRIALOG offered travel and accommodation

support for participants from these countries to enable their active participation.

On 31 January and 1 February, 2012 we organised a partner meeting for all 12 NMS and Croatia with

TRIALOG staff, TRIALOG Advisory Group and CONCORD in Vienna to exchange and analyse the

actual situation in the area and identify best ways of support.

From 15 to 17 February, 2012, the university from Olomouc (Czech Republic) together with EADI

(network of European research institutes) organised a conference on EU12 as new donors in

development. The TRIALOG director was invited as speaker and used the opportunity for networking

with universities, research institutes and NGOs.

In order to share the experience of TRIALOG and motivate CSOs from future EU member states to

organise themselves in time, we invited CSO representatives from the Western Balkans for a partner

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meeting to Vienna. Together with partners from Slovenia we explained the “TRIALOG experience”

to representatives from Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This

should enable them to start more active engagement on national, regional and European level in the

topic of development and development effectiveness.

In March 2012 we had a coordination meeting with the Steering Group of DEEEP in order to share

information, to coordinate our activities and to agree on joint activities. The following day there was a

meeting with the director and staff from the CONCORD secretariat also on exchange, information

sharing, agreeing on mutual participation in events and coordination. TRIALOG also always

participates in the CONCORD general assemblies.

Besides participating in CONCORD working groups that are always also used for networking

(especially the policy forum), TRIALOG participated in core events and processes to strengthen the

role of participating NMS and/or to inform NMS about the events/processes. Just to name the most

important processes, where TRIALOG actively participated: CSO development effectiveness/Open

Forum, the European Aid Watch, the Structured Dialogue and the Beyond 2015 (Post-MDG) process.

25. Annual Plan

In January 2012, the annual planning workshop was implemented by the Project Team within the 3-

day-planning meeting of the team. The workshop included an internal evaluation of the last year and

the detailed annual planning with timeframe, responsibilities, milestones and priority setting.

26. Monitoring

There was permanent monitoring through the director of TRIALOG, the Lead Agency

HORIZONT3000 and through the Advisory Group of the project.

In the reporting period, Monitoring Sessions were included in the project team meetings (including

the Brussels staff) which took place in November 2011, January 2012, April 2012 (after the Central

Training), June 2012 (after the Exchange Meeting/Human Rights Conference) and September

2012(after the Advisory Group meeting). The results are included in the minutes and the Advisory

Group is informed about the outcomes in each meeting.

27. Project Team Meetings

Three 3-day-planning meetings of the full TRIALOG team from Vienna and Brussels took place each

year in January where the annual work plan was defined and priorities of the year set. In addition to

this planning meeting there were 4 full team meetings (1 day) in the reporting period for exchanging

all relevant information concerning the operational aspects of the project. These meetings were

always linked to a TRIALOG event in order to make best use of travel costs and time. Weekly Skype-

conferences supported the information exchange and the coordination.

28. Management Team Meetings

At least once a month there was a Management Team Meeting between the TRIALOG director and a

representative of the Senior Management Team of HORIZONT3000.

29. Advisory Group Meetings

Four Advisory Group Meetings with the participation of the consortium members and other experts,

took place in the reporting period, convened and chaired by a representative of the Senior

Management Team of HORIZONT3000, in Vienna. The agenda and written AG minutes document

the project process. The following AG meetings were realised: 23 November 2011 in Vienna, 30

January 2012 in Vienna, 13. June 2012 in Bucharest, 17 September 2012 in Vienna.

30. External Evaluation

As foreseen in the contract with the European Commission, an external evaluation on TRIALOG IV

(September 2009 to September 2012) was carried out between December 2011 and April 2012. The

evaluator Nikki Van der Gaag put emphasis on the multitude of tasks and activities of TRIALOG:

“On the one side TRIALOG cooperates with different actors in twelve New Member States of the

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European Union and furthermore, with key actors in some Old Member States and some Candidate

Countries. On the other side TRIALOG itself is an important actor in the field of non-governmental

development cooperation and awareness raising on European Level.”

Please find more on the results of the evaluation in 2.10.

The evaluation report as well as the validation of the recommendations of the evaluation has been

shared with the European Commission, the Austrian Development Agency and all consortium partners

as well as with interested platforms and stakeholder.

From the Logframe

Ad Expected Result Nr. 4: TRIALOG’s approach has been adjusted to the changed internal and

external environments of CSOs

Indicators Results

Until the end of the project, in 7

countries with stronger platforms the

project has diversified the activities and

concentrated on the training of

multipliers and on Lobby, Advocacy &

Policy

In the training of multipliers, participants from not only 7

NMS but from all EU12 participated. Instead of the planned

20 multipliers, we trained 35 EU12 representatives as

multipliers and 9 of them got deepened training in the third

project year. The issue of Lobby, Advocacy and Policy was a

core issue especially in each of the 3 Central Training events,

both on national and on EU-level. TRIALOG supported this

by providing information and capacity, linking with relevant

actors from EU-level, supporting exchange between EU12 for

mutual learning and providing the step-by-step Advocacy

Guide.

Until the end of the project, in 5

countries with weaker platforms the

project concentrates on

building/strengthening national

platforms, on access to EC funding and

on capacity building in development

issues

The main focus in building and strengthening national

platforms were on Croatia and Macedonia (platform building)

and in EU12 on Lithuania (supporting the establishment of the

Lithuanian Umbrella between the 2 national platforms),

Bulgaria (supporting the set-up and strengthening of the

platform structure, national DEAR dialogue among all

stakeholder etc.), Cyprus (support the creation of a viable

platform communication and structure in preparation of the

EU presidency) and Malta (support of organisational

development of and conflict solving within the national

platform). Access to EU funding was supported by the two

partnership fairs, by support in partner search, by information

distribution on relevant calls and on supporting participation

in relevant funding working groups. Additionally there were

several training on EU proposal writing and contract

management.

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By encouraging CSOs to reflect on

their role, at least 50 CSOs from NMS

have been involved in the process of

redefining the role of European CSOs

in a global context until the end of the

project

The TRIALOG conference in Nicaragua on the topic "Global

Crossroads - the Role and Perspectives of CSOs in

development cooperation" was the main event of the project

and brought 30 representatives from NMS to Nicaragua. All

participants did national consultations with other member of

their national platforms on the topic and did de-briefing

meetings, round tables and other events after their return. By

this, at least 150 CSO representatives got involved into the

topic. Continuing this topic, TRIALOG engaged more and

more in the process of defining new paradigms for the time

after 2015 (MDGs) and organised the central training 2012

and a joint conference with the Czech platform in Prague on

the topic Beyond 2015 where 45 representatives from

EU12/AC/CC participated. Consequently several NMS

platforms declared to become engaged in this process with

national consultations etc.

Another activity co-organised by TRIALOG was the

International Conference on “Promoting Human Rights –

Empowering Civil Society”, from 25-27 June 2012 in Vienna

where 22 representatives from EU12 took part.

at least 5 national platforms in NMS

and AC have been supported in their

discussions and negotiations regarding

the national ODA and development

policy strategies

There has been support to the Romanian platform by

accompanying them in meetings with representatives of the

MFA and the Ministry of Finance in order to create a national

co-funding mechanism. The Romanian platform was also

supported to link up with the Slovakian platform for setting

up a partnership agreement with the MFA and has

consultative status at the MFA. The platforms of Latvia,

Lithuania and Estonia were supported in advocacy actions

towards their permanent representatives in Brussels in ODA

issues as their MFAs delegate the Permanent Representations

to the EU meetings. The Cypriot platform was supported in

their discussions with their MFA in the preparation of the EU

presidency and its priorities. The Croatian platform which is

still in the process of establishment was supported to establish

a policy dialogue with the MFA by involving the MFA in the

platform building seminar and process.

2.3. Activities that have not taken place

Please outline any activity and/or publications foreseen in the contract, that have not taken

place, explaining the reasons for these

We did not realise the Winter School on Organisational Development for the national platforms of the

12 NMS. After analysing the needs and wishes communicated by the platforms for the capacity

building for 2011 and some further consultation, we found out that most platforms preferred to have

support for joint projects instead of such training. Some platforms already had long-term strategies

and yearly work plans; others were in the process already. Only Malta and Cyprus wanted to get

specific support in this which we did bilaterally in-country together with the platform stakeholders

(especially in the case of Cyprus as we were anyhow supporting them in the preparation of their EU

presidency project). All platforms got bilateral support for organisational development of their

platforms.

Thus in February 2011 we requested the EC to approve this change in the activity plan (to eliminate

this Winter School on Organisational Development from the activity plan and insert instead of it

another Partnership Fair to find partners for joint projects which would then be submitted to the EC in

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the relevant calls) which was approved in March 2011. This change had no implication in the budget

lines. The second partnership fair of the project phase took place in Vienna in September 2011.

2.4. What is your assessment of the results of the Action? Include observations on the

performance and the achievement of outputs, outcomes, impact and risks in relation

to specific and overall objectives, and whether the Action has had any unforeseen positive

or negative results. (Please quantify where possible; refer to Logframe Indicators).

The assessment of the expected results was already elaborated in chapter 2.2. As shown in this

assessment, TRIALOG overreached by far all expected results and increased both in activities and in

beneficiaries.

Following the assessment of the objectives:

From the Logframe

Indicators Results

Overall Objective:

Mobilisation of more

public support in NMS

and AC/CC for actions

against poverty and for

equal relations between

developing and developed

countries through CSOs

as multipliers.

At the end of the project,

CSOs from 12 NMS and all

AC and the broader respective

public will be aware of the

global responsibility of Europe

and also on individual level,

and concrete national and

European strategies will be

widespread for the fight

against poverty

There have been 254 TIS articles

published from EU12 platforms about

development activities of national

platforms and their platform member

organisations; The yearly updated

country reports of EU12 show that ODA

has been implemented by active

involvement of CSOs.

Specific Objective: A

stronger European System

of international

development cooperation

by the integration and

active participation of

CSOs from NMS and

AC/CC on European and

global level through

coordination, networking,

advocacy and capacity

building.

After the first year, the

platforms of Bulgaria, Estonia,

Lithuania and Romania and

the meta-platform of Cyprus

are active in CONCORD and

on the way to become

members.

All EU12 platforms actively participate

in CONCORD (General Assembly,

some working groups, core processes).

All EU12 participate in the AidWatch

group which produces the national aid

watch reports that are included in the

European report; all EU12 participate in

the DARE forum. At the end of the

project, all EU12 platforms are member

of CONCORD.

At the end of the project, the

coordinating bodies of all

Accession Countries are

actively involved in the

CONCORD-family and the

related Working Groups.

The only AC is Croatia which is

actively involved in exchange with

CONCORD (at the Central Training and

Partner Meeting) and participates in the

EPAN WG. Additionally, CSOs from

Macedonia and Montenegro also

participate in the EPAN WG of

CONCORD. At the end of the project,

Croatia is in the final phase of platform

building and is already discussing about

participation in other CONCORD WGs.

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Each NMS will be involved in

at least 1 Development

Education action with

activities in the respective

countries as well as in

Development Cooperation

activities in Developing

Countries financed by the EC,

governmental institutions

and/or private donors

There are numerous activities in every

EU12 country and reports can be found

in the 254 TIS articles of EU12

platforms and their member

organisations (links to all TIS in the

chapter of publications). In all EU12

platforms there is an active working

group on Development Education which

is organising multi-stakeholder

activities.

Each platform have realised at

least 1 Advocacy and Lobby

activity during the project

period on national and/or EU-

level.

The Baltic platforms have designed

several advocacy letters and organised

meetings on the MFF. The CZ, PL, SK,

HU and SI platforms are active on

advocacy for PCD. The CZ and PL

platforms have made many advocacy

actions towards the recognition of the

transition experience. The Bulgarian and

SI platforms are engaged in advocacy

actions for the Balkans. The PL, LV and

RO platforms are engaged in advocacy

for better cooperation with the Eastern

Neighbourhood. The CY and MT

platforms do advocacy for the Southern

Neighbourhood and the Arab spring.

There are many more examples.

2.5. What has been the outcome on both the final beneficiaries &/or target group (if different)

and the situation in the target country or target region which the Action addressed?

This was responded to in the assessments of the activities, results and objectives (in chapter 2.2. and

2.4.).

2.6. Please list all materials (and no. of copies) produced during the Action on whatever format

(please enclose a copy of each item, except if you have already done so in the past).

Please state how the items produced are being distributed and to whom.

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List of publications Date Format (printed

and/or

electronic/online)

No. of copies

(for printed

publications)

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26 TIS

issues

between

September

2009

and

September

2012

Electronic:

- via email

- on Website

- on TIS blog

e-mail

receiver: from

2.540 in

September

2009 to 2.952

in September

2012

TRIALOG Bulletin 2010 November

2010

Printed

and electronic

(email, website,

TIS)

2100

TRIALOG Bulletin 2011 September

2011

Printed

and electronic

(email, website,

TIS)

1260

TRIALOG Bulletin 2012 May 2012 Printed

and electronic

(email, website,

TIS)

2360

TRIALOG Information Leaflet February

2010

Printed

and electronic

(email, website,

TIS)

4000

-

TRIALOG study on development cooperation in Croatia November

2011

Electronic (website,

TIS)

-

TRIALOG study on development cooperation in Macedonia February

2012


TIS)

-

TRIALOG study on development cooperation in Montenegro March 2012 Electronic (website,

TIS)

-

TRIALOG Advocacy Guide

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_advocacy_guide.pdf

September

2012

Printed

And electronic

(email, website,

TIS)

300

TRIALOG Policy Paper on the European Neighbourhood June 2012 Electronic (email, -

http://www.trialog-information-service.blogspot.co.at/2009_09_01_archive.html


























http://www.trialog.or.at/start.asp?ID=97

http://www.trialog-information-service.blogspot.com/

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/bulletin2010.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_bulletin2011.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/bulletin_2012-sc.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog-iv-flyer.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_countrypaper_croatia.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_countrypaper_macedonia.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_countrypaper_montenegro.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_sv_enpbrief.pdf

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Programme (ENP) and Eastern Partnership website, TIS)

TRIALOG Policy Paper on Post-2015: Opportunities for EU12

CSOs

May 2012 Electronic (email,

website, TIS)

TRIALOG Reader on The Future of Civil Society Development

Organisations

September

2010

Electronic (email,

website)

-

Development Education in Bulgaria – Opportunities and needs,

main concepts and best practices (compiled by the Bulgarian

Platform for International Development with the support of

TRIALOG; in Bulgarian)

English summary available here

September

2012

Printed

Electronic (website)

50

History of Development Policy at the EU and international level

(compiled by the Bulgarian Platform for International

Development with the support of TRIALOG; in Bulgarian)

English summary available here

September

2012

Printed


200

Policy Paper The Role of Citizens in Development (compiled by

the Cyprus Island wide NGO Development Platform CYINDEP

with the support of TRIALOG)

September

2012


TIS)

Policy Paper Envisioning a Just and Sustainable World Beyond

2015 (compiled by the Cyprus Island wide NGO Development

Platform CYINDEP with the support of TRIALOG)

September

2012


TIS)

Policy Paper Multiannual Financial Framework: A Budget for

Europe 2020 Beyond 2015 (compiled by the Cyprus Island wide

NGO Development Platform CYINDEP with the support of

TRIALOG)

September

2012


TIS)

Study "Maltese NGOs, Local Councils & International

Development Cooperation"(compiled by the national platform of

Maltese NGDOs SKOP with the support of TRIALOG)

September

2012

Printed


TIS)

200

Report "How to measure quality of global education" (compiled

by the Global Education Working Group of the Group of Polish

NGOs working abroad - Grupa Zagranica, with the support of

TRIALOG)

August

2012


TIS)

Stories from LAPAS (video created by the Latvian Platform for

Development Cooperation, with the support of TRIALOG)

September

2012


FOND Annual Report 2011 (compiled by the Romanian NGDO

Platform FOND in Romanian, with the support of TRIALOG)

September

2012

Printed


50

FOND Brochure (compiled by the Romanian NGDO Platform

FOND in Romanian and English, with the support of TRIALOG)

September

2012

Printed


550

Catalogue of FOND Members (compiled by the Romanian

NGDO Platform FOND in Romanian and English, with the

support of TRIALOG)

September

2012

Printed


100

Evaluation model for assessing the impact of the NGO

development programmes and projects (compiled by SLOGA,

Slovenian NGDO platform, with the support of TRIALOG)

September

2012


All TRIALOG publications (including printed publications) are made available electronically on the

TRIALOG website. All publications are distributed broadly to our civil society partners in newer EU

member states, but also in older member states, as well as the Global South (especially during the

TRIALOG conference in Nicaragua 2010 and the exchange activities in 2011 and 2012 with

participants from Africa, Asia and Latin America). Receivers of TRIALOG publications are also EC

officials and representatives of other sectors (governmental/scientific). Publications are sent per email

as part of the TRIALOG Information Service (TIS), posted on our website and on our blog. Printed

copies are sent in hardcopy to our main partners per post and circulated at various events,

conferences, training, meetings etc.

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_sv_enpbrief.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/fors_post2015brief_final.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/fors_post2015brief_final.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/reader2010.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/reader2010.pdf

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/bg_policy_paper_dear_in_bulgaria_2012.pdf

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/bg_policy_paper_dear_in_bulgaria_2012.pdf

http://www.bpid.eu/en/node/242

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/bg_international_development_cooperation_brochure_2012.pdf

http://www.bpid.eu/en/node/244






http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/maltese_ngos_lcs__int'l_dev_coop_medevnet-publication_final.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/maltese_ngos_lcs__int'l_dev_coop_medevnet-publication_final.pdf

http://zagranica.org.pl/en/Seminar-on-quality-in-GE/raport-z-przegldu-partnerskiego-materiaow-i-dziaa-z-zakresu-edukacji-globalnej.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcVlbGQMyI4&feature=player_detailpage&list=HL1352473582

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/fond_annual_report_2011.pdf

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/fond_brochure_en.pdf

http://trialog.marmara.co.at/images/doku/fond_annual_report_2011.pdf

http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/model_evalvacija_draft_sloga.pdf

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2.7. Please list all contracts (works, supplies, services) above 10.000€ awarded for the

implementation of the action since the last interim report if any or during the reporting

period, giving for each contract the amount, the award procedure followed and the name of

the contractor.

For the external evaluation of the project we made a contract with Nikki van der Gaag about EUR

12.000,-. In the beginning of October 2011 we launched a call for applications with detailed terms of

reference and a foreseen time-line for the evaluation to be done. The terms of reference were sent to

all national platforms in EU12, to CONCORD, published in our electronic newsletter TIS and on our

website. Additionally we forwarded the call to recommended evaluation experts all over Europe.

2.8. Describe if the Action will continue after the support from the European Union has ended.

Are there any follow up activities envisaged? What will ensure the sustainability of the

Action?

TRIALOG is continuing all activities in a fifth phase (TRIALOG V) with co-funding from the

European Commission, the Austrian Development Agency and a consortium of 18 European NGOs.

The European confederation of development NGOs CONCORD is again consortium partner to

guarantee the European networking outside EU12/AC. For the first time, all national platforms in

EU12 and AC are consortium partners which will even more assure the ownership and the

sustainability of TRIALOG work.

2.9. Explain how the Action has mainstreamed cross-cutting issues such as promotion of human

rights3, gender equality

4, democracy, good governance, children's rights and indigenous

peoples, environmental sustainability5 and combating HIV/AIDS (if there is a strong

prevalence in the target country/region).6

Human rights are one of the most relevant topics we always include in our work. We promote the

human rights based approach with our partners and target group and support its spread. The topic

of the EU12 exchange of the third project year was on Human Rights and Democracy.

TRIALOG is always keen to promote gender equality on all levels. It can easily be proven by

checking the list of speakers, facilitators and rapporteurs of all TRIALOG events. A networking

project always needs meetings for exchange, learning, cooperating, coordinating etc. but we

always try to use less harmful ways of transport when possible (train travels), try to link several

activities in order to have less travels and do as much coordination as possible via skype

conferences or e-mail.

2.10. How and by whom have the activities been monitored/evaluated ? Please summarise the

results of the feedback received, including from the beneficiaries.

There was permanent monitoring through the director of TRIALOG, the Lead Agency

HORIZONT3000 and through the Advisory Group of the project. Additionally, TRIALOG was

evaluated by an external evaluator in the project period, the report was sent to the EC and ADA.

As foreseen in the contract with the European Commission, an external evaluation on TRIALOG

IV (September 2009 to September 2012) was carried out between December 2011 and April 2012.

The evaluator Nikki Van der Gaag put emphasis on the multitude of tasks and activities of

TRIALOG: “On the one side TRIALOG cooperates with different actors in twelve New Member

States of the European Union and furthermore, with key actors in some Old Member States and

3 Including those of people with disabilities. For more information, see “Guidance note on disability and

development” at http://ec.europa.eu/development/body/publications/docs/Disability_en.pdf 4 http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2004/toolkit_on_mainstreaming_gender_equality.pdf

5 Guidelines for environmental integration are available at: http://www.environment-integration.eu/

6 To refer to EC Guidelines on gender equality, disabilities…

http://ec.europa.eu/development/body/publications/docs/Disability_en.pdf

http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2004/toolkit_on_mainstreaming_gender_equality.pdf

http://www.environment-integration.eu/

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some Candidate Countries. On the other side TRIALOG itself is an important actor in the field of

non-governmental development cooperation and awareness raising on European Level.”

From the evaluation report: “TRIALOG has achieved a huge amount in the last 12 years. During

this last phase, all but one of the EU12 Platforms have become members of CONCORD, and the

final Platform will join this year. Many people from the NMS now play an active part in

CONCORD. From a standing start, where as one respondent acknowledged: ‘Twelve years ago I

didn’t even know what the word ‘development’ meant’ – NMS Platforms and their members have

become actors on development in the EU in their own right, and amassed a considerable amount

of expertise through training, capacity building, conferences, meetings, study visits and

exchanges, all of which they are able to share with their members and with their Governments. A

number of respondents from EU12 Platforms in fact noted that they now know more than the

people working on development in Government and are thus able to act as unofficial advisers to

their Ministries of Foreign Affairs. And many respondents gave due credit to the work of

TRIALOG, which they felt had helped to build a body of people in the EU12 who are interested

in, and committed to, development.”

“There was praise too for the TRIALOG team from many respondents. Their hard work is

acknowledged, as are the many activities that have been carried out in a very diverse group of

countries. Those people who have attended one of the many events, and in particular the

Partnership Fair and the Nicaragua conference, are very positive about what they have gained.”

From an interview for the evaluation: ‘TRIALOG is the only place where we can have these kinds

of debates [about the content and issues around development]. If we sell fair trade on the streets

people ask: ‘What are you doing for our poor people? Changing minds takes time.’

2.11. What has your organisation/partner learned from the Action and how has this learning been

utilised and disseminated?

TRIALOG IV concluded 12 years of accumulated experience and expertise and it’s a

permanent learning process due to the changing environments for CSOs on European level

and on national level in the 12 new EU member states. Additionally, the different NMS

are developing with different speed and the needs in each country make TRIALOG

working on diversification of cooperation offers. Thus, TRIALOG IV included a lot of

new elements such as a conference in the South, field visits to projects in the South, the

creation of a pool of multipliers etc. At the same time, the need for continuation of the

activities so far was expressed by all partners, above of all in the NMS platforms which

are still not very strong, in those who are hidden very hard by the financial crisis and

above of all in all future Accession and new EU member countries in the Western

Balkans. The TRIALOG experience will be systematised in TRIALOG V so that it can be

systematically used in future EU member states for their accession preparation.

3. Partners and other Co-operation

3.1. How do you assess the relationship between the formal partners of this Action (i.e. those

partners which have signed a partnership statement)? Please provide specific information for

each partner organisation.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe

e.V./AGEH, Germany:

very good partnership, active participation in the

Advisory Group

Civil Society Development Foundation,

Romania


Advisory Group and in the Nicaragua Conference;

input on the Balkan work of TRIALOG

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CONCORD a.i.s.b.l, Belgium close cooperation in many activities - details under

2.2. "activities" in the different activity areas of

the project.

Development and Education Centre

European Perspective, Greece

very good partnership in the first project year with

active participation in the Advisory Group and in

the Nicaragua Conference. Due to the financial

crisis in Greece, this partner didn't contribute the

funds agreed and stopped cooperation in the half

of the second project year

Ekumenicka akademie Praha, Czech

Republic


Advisory Group and in the preparation and

realisation of the Nicaragua Conference

eRko – Christian Children Communities

Movement, Slovakia


Advisory Group

Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali – Malta

(Kopin), Malta



realisation of the Nicaragua Conference

Light for the World – Christoffel

Development Cooperation, Austria



realisation of the Nicaragua Conference; active

participation in some partner strategy meetings

Lietuvos Kolpingo draugija/ Kolping

society Lithuanian, Lithuania


Advisory Group and in the Nicaragua Conference

Polish Humanitarian Organisation, Poland very good partnership, active participation in the

Advisory Group and in the Nicaragua Conference;

active participation in some partner strategy

meetings; cooperation in the partnership fairs;

Terre des Hommes Foundation “Lausanne”

in Hungary, Hungary


Advisory Group and in the preparation of the

Nicaragua Conference

3.2. Is the partnership to continue? If so, how? If not, why?

Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe

e.V./AGEH, Germany:

The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V

Civil Society Development Foundation,

Romania

The consortium partnership will not continue as

CSDF is now represented by the new consortium

partner FOND - the Romanian CSO platform.

CONCORD a.i.s.b.l, Belgium The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V

Development and Education Centre

European Perspective, Greece

The partnership will not continue as they have not

the necessary organisational and financial stability

any more.

Ekumenicka akademie Praha, Czech

Republic



partner FoRS - the Czech CSO platform.

eRko – Christian Children Communities

Movement, Slovakia



partner MVRO - the Slovak CSO platform.

Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali – Malta

(Kopin), Malta



partner SKOP - the Maltese CSO platform.

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Light for the World – Christoffel

Development Cooperation, Austria

The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V

Lietuvos Kolpingo draugija/ Kolping

society Lithuanian, Lithuania



partner Litdea/LU - the Lithuanian CSO platform.

Polish Humanitarian Organisation, Poland The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V

Terre des Hommes Foundation “Lausanne”

in Hungary, Hungary

The partnership will not continue as TdH Hungary

depends on TdH Lausanne who has set new

priorities for their actions which are not including

EU12 anymore.

3.3. How would you assess the relationship between your organisation and State authorities in

the Action countries? How has this relationship affected the Action?

TRIALOG has a very good relation with all NMS state authorities who are concerned with ODA.

Apart from personal meetings in the countries and at international events, TRIALOG is often asked

for sharing experience in special cases from some OMS or other NMS. TRIALOG is consulted from

some NMS representatives before meetings of the member state committee (either directly or via the

national platforms). The very good relationship and appreciation became very visible when some

NMS representatives asked the EC for continued support for TRIALOG.

3.4. Where applicable, describe your relationship with any other organisations involved in

implementing the Action:

Associate(s) (if any) none

Sub-contractor(s) (if any) none

Final Beneficiaries and Target groups: the cooperation with the national platforms of

EU12 and their members as well as with CSOs from Croatia who will create a platform

in near future was very productive. TRIALGO always consulted all relevant activities

with the platforms and their members and adapted the work plan according to their

needs. There was more and more ownership from the platforms on TRIALOG and as

result, all EU12/AC platforms are consortium partners in the continuation project

TRIALOG V.

Other third parties involved (including other donors, other government agencies or

local government units, NGOs, etc) In the stage of designing the project, there was a

commitment from SlovakAid to financially support the project TRIALOG IV. Once the

EC contract was signed, the responsible staff in SlovakAid had changed and the former

commitment had to be discussed again. After various discussions with this donor

agency (where staff changes continues and oral commitments of former staff was not

taken on) it turned out that there will not be any financial support. Thus, the lead

agency of TRIALOG had to cover the missing funds. Beside this, there was cooperation

and active participation of Slovak Aid and the Czech agency in the 2 partnership fairs

of the project.

3.5. Where applicable, outline any links and synergies you have developed with other actions.

TRIALOG was always keen to cooperate with other actors who have similar activities or target group

or objectives. Concrete cooperation or at least mutual information exchange was done with the

following actions (some of the cooperation is described above in 2.2.):

CONCORD

DEEEP

Open Forum/CSO Development Effectiveness

ASA/GLEN

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Beyond2015

North-South-Centre in the frame of the Joint Management Agreement

Coordination project of the Trade Unions

Coordination project of Political Foundations

Etc.

3.6. If your organisation has received previous EU grants in view of strengthening the same

target group, in how far has this Action been able to build upon/complement the previous

one(s)? (List all previous relevant EU grants).

Before the present project TRIALOG IV, there were already contracts for the preparation of

TRIALOG, TRIALOG I, TRIALOG II and TRIALOG III. Due to the continuity in lead agency,

partners and some staff, all TRIALOG phases had experimented a permanent learning and developing

process. The results of the external evaluation at the end of each phase were always taken seriously

and we always worked on the validation of the recommendations of the evaluation. The last validation

of the TRIALOG IV evaluation was done in TRIALOG IV (the document was sent to EuropeAid) and

guaranteed that the outcomes of TRIALOG IV were fully integrated in TRIALOG V (the continuation

project).

3.7. How do you evaluate co-operation with the services of the Contracting Authority?

For TRIALOG there was a very productive cooperation with the unit in charge of content. Especially

with Markus Pirchner and his team we had always good communication and quick feed-back to any

question or concern. There was participation of members of this unit in TRIALOG events (such as the

Development Education Partnership Fair and the central training) which not only enriched our direct

communication and understanding but also brought our target group from NMS closer to EuropeAid.

We highly appreciate this direct involvement of engaged persons from the contracting authority in

special events of the action.

4. Visibility

How is the visibility of the EU contribution being ensured in the Action?

The logo of the EU is on all our publications, the website, at the folder, the banner, the headed

paper etc. as indicated in the contract. A copy of all publications was provided to EuropeAid

The European Commission may wish to publicise the results of Actions. Do you have any

objection to this report being published on the EuropeAid website? If so, please state your

objections here.

Name of the contact person for the Action: ……Christine Bedoya……………

Signature: …… ……Location: ……Vienna……………

Date report due: …22. December 2012…..…Date report sent: …10 December 2012……

Abbreviations AC Accession Country to the EU CC Candidate Country to the EU

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CSO Civil Society Organisation CONCORD European NG0 Confederation for Relief and Development DARE CONCORD WG on Development Education and Awareness Raising EC European Commission ENPI European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument EU European Union EU12 New Member States of the European Union since 2004 FDR CONCORD WG “Funding for Development and Relief” IPA Instrument for Pre-Accession LA Local Authority MDGs Millennium Development Goals MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFF Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 NMS New Member States of the European Union since 2004 NP National Platform of NGDOs NGO Non Governmental Organization NGDO Non Governmental Development Organization ODA Official Development Assistance OMS Old Member States of the European Union before 2004 PA Participants WG Working Group

Documents

FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT TRIALOG IV IV November 2012 Page 1 of 39 TRIALOG IV Final report Sept12 ANNEX VI FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT This report must be completed and signed by the Contact