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Advocacy Handbook for Civil Society Organizations: Towards a Fair, Just and Sustainable World

We present to you a manual for public advocacy intended for civil society organizations in the field of international development cooperation and sustainable development.This manual is designed as a tool to support future advocacy activities of civil society organizations (CSOs) in the Western Balkans. Its purpose is to provide CSOs…

The EU’s short-sighted aid cuts are a choice – so is the way forward!

The early figures for 2024 Official Development Assistance (ODA) confirm a deeply troubling trend: Europe’s richest countries per capita— such as Germany, Netherlands and Finland—are cutting back their commitments to international cooperation. The cuts are not just numbers on a page; they are political decisions with real-world consequences for millions…

How can agriculture contribute to green transition in the EU?

Agriculture accounts for 11 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU and 70 percent of those come directly from livestock agriculture. How can the agriculture sector contribute to a greener EU? We will discuss it on 6 September at 19:30. A new policy period for a more modern (greener…

Estimates Show That 1.2 Billion People Will Be Climate Migrants by 2050. This Is What We Can Do For Them Immediately.

This article was written in Croatian and published with the cooperation of Telegram.hr. The text below is the original text translated in English. An estimated 1.2 billion climate migrants are expected by 2050. We researched what we can do to help them today People are often the forgotten victims of…

Project “Local Policies Under a Magnifying Glass – Monitoring the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Local Communities” begins with implementation

The project “Local Policies Under a Magnifying Glass – Monitoring the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals in Local Communities“ was supported by € 90,000 financial support from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway under EEA Active Citizenship grants Croatia. Implementation of the project began on October 1, 2022, and will last a…

AidWatch 2021 – A GEOPOLITICAL COMMISSION: BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS OR PLAYING POLITICS?

The report provides a detailed analysis of the quantity and quality of EU ODA throughout 2020 in four categories: Enough? Employed correctly? Effective? Equality-focused? ENOUGH?  In 2020, the EU’s ODA represented 0.50% of its GNI, up from 0.42% in 2019. The EU, despite retaining its position in 2020 as the…

EU UNOPS Lives in Dignity Grant Facility: improving outcomes for displacement-affected people

The LiD Grant Facility by the European Union and UNOPS will support refugees and other displaced persons to become productive members of their host communities and participate in furthering their common resilience, socio-economic growth and development. The strategic priorities for the Facility are: Early engagement of development-led approaches to forced displacementA…

Presentation of the report on SDGs implementation in Croatia

CROSOL – Croatian Platform for International Citizen Solidarity presented its report and held a discussion on sustainable development goals and Agenda 2030 implementation in Croatia on 20 April 2021. The participants in the discussion were experts on sustainable development: Mirta Mandić, Head of Global Development Service, Ministry of Foreign and…

The COVID-19 pandemic and related crises call for higher levels of ODA

Press release by DAC-CSO Reference Group: Today, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced that over the course of 2020 DAC donors allocated 161.2 billion USD of official development assistance (ODA), more commonly known as ‘development aid’. Despite the long-standing commitment to contribute 0.7% of gross national income…

Letter to minister Grlić Radman ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council on 23 November

Ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council (Development) meeting on 23rd November, CONCORD Europe and CROSOL have sent a letter to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Mr Grlić Radman sharing a number of recommendations. CONCORD welcomed the adoption of the Global EU Response to COVID-19 in partner countries. Team…

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