EU Delegation Watch 2012
In 2005, the European Commission took the bold step of decentralising its project management to EU Delegations. This caused both opportunities and problems. To monitor the positive aspects of this approach and to highlight where things are going wrong, CONCORD (network of development platforms and networks of which EU-CORD is a member) undertakes an annual survey of the experiences of civil society...
EU-CORD Workshop on Child Rights
‘We have a lot to gain, we are so similar in the processes, similar background, thinking, support base – we are struggling with a lot of the same questions in terms of communication in our respective countries, bringing staff on-board within our organisations and negotiating this with our local partners. There must be some gains in working on this together, I can’t see this any other way’....
United in Learning
Just before the start of the rainy season in March 2012, 24 participants gathered in Juba to spend full 4-days learning about EU development aid. Ruth Faber (Secretariat) and Adrian Hawthorn (Tearfund) delivered a programme based on EU-CORD’s nine previous workshops and on the needs and expectations of the participants.
In July 2011, South Sudan became an independent state – but one with a...
