Global Standard for CSO Accountability

INGO Accountability Charter Our Ambition: improve NGO accountability and enabling environment

• Cross sector: members from development, environment, human rights etc.

• Global: our members are the international organisations of: Amnesty, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Plan, World Vision, Transparency International etc.

• Comprehensive: code covers governance, independence, financial security, inclusion, environmental sustainability, anti-corruption etc.

• Strict compliance: Annual reports – assessed by Independent Review Panel – results published on our website

Integration of economic, environmental and social goals (cross sector)

Same agenda for global South and North (global)

Focus on peace, democracy and inclusive societies (comprehensive)

Link global, national & local to make it concrete…

…Global Standard eight strong national CSO codes join forces

What‘s the link with the new SDG‘s ?

Challenging times for CSOs

National context is important – but also what unites us

Learning opportunities are huge

Collective CSO voice is stronger in public debates – including the SDG Implementation

Rationale for Global Civil Society Cooperation

Partners joining forces

Australian Council for International Development (ACFID)

Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC)

INGO Accountability Charter, Europe

InterAction (USA)

NGO Quality Assurance Certification Mechanism (QuAM), Uganda

Rendir Cuentas, Latin America

Viwango, Kenya

Voluntary Action Network India (VANI)

Our work in the coming 3 years

Mutual learning, community of practice, network of global NGO solidarity

Identify the overlap of existing codes and practices and devise a collectively agreed Global CSO Standard

Standard will be a global “reference standard” for Project Partners and many others to use

Project Partners keep their own code, but devise clear lines of inter-operability

What we want to achieve

Strengthen civil society organisations’

effectiveness by developing a globally

aligned, strong accountability

practiceImprove CSO accountability and practices

Reduce reporting / focus on what unites us

Contribute to enabling environment for CSOs

Thank you!