Development Aid: NGO Statements
Revised Strategy for the Integration of the Environment into EU Development Cooperation
September 13, 2007
FERN, WWF, BirdLife International and IUCN comments to the revision and updating of the Environment Integration Strategy for EU Development Cooperation.
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 OPEN | 63.42 KB |
Shared NGO concerns and proposals on the programming of EC Thematic Programmes
March 30, 2007
Joint NGO –
including environment, development, human rights and migration – exercise with proposals for better programming. The document stresses that
the process of programming is not just a technical matter and that the way to organise such a process has
important political consequences, not least on the quality of the programmes
and the level of public acceptance of policies.
Proposals are grouped into five sections covering the following:
Proposals are grouped into five sections covering the following:
- Consultation and planning
- Role for European NGOs
- Complementarity with geographic programmes and global funds
- Role of the European Parliament
- A strengthened approach to cross-cutting issues
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| Open | 795.95 KB |
NGO letter urging the Commission to make CEPs public
September 27, 2006
Joint letter by FERN, WWF, Birdlife, ICCO and IFAW to Commissioners
Louis Michel, Benita Ferrero-Waldner and Margot Wallstrom urging them
to make Country and Regional Environmental Profiles (CEPs/REPs) public
at the Commission webpage.
Answer from the European Commission.
Answer from the European Commission.
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| Letter urging to make CEPs public | 57.33 KB |
| Answer from the Commission | 113.33 KB |
Joint NGO letter to the Director of DG Development on integration of environmental concerns in the EC aid programme
June 26, 2006
FERN, Birdlife and WWF letter urging the European Commission to ensure
that crosscutting issues causing and effecting poverty,
such as environmental degradation and human rights abuses, are
incorporated in the EC bilateral co-operation strategies with countries
and regions and in the EC thematic co-operation strategies.
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| Open | 50.77 KB |
10th EDF: What will be left for sustainable human and social development in ACP countries?
May 23, 2006
Joint NGO letter to European Ministers of Development and Finance in the
run up to the ACP-EU Council of Ministers in Port Moresby on 1-2 June
2006. the NGOs demand the EU to live up to its responsibility
towards ACP countries by ensuring that the 10th EDF focuses on sustainable
human and social development, with particular attention to issues such as the
environment and the promotion of gender equality and
human rights.
450 million per year needed for external environmental action
May 16, 2006
FERN, WWF and Birdlife briefing urging the European Parliament to ensure
sufficient funding for the Thematic Programme for the Environment and
Natural Resources. The NGOs ask for an allocation of EUR 450 million a
year for this external relations programme during the period during
2007-2013.
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| OPEN | 37.61 KB |
Joint NGO statement on the rationalisation of the EC’s thematic funding instruments in the field of external relations
February 2, 2006
The joint NGO statement seeks to draw together some overarching and common
concerns about the process and governance of the EC's thematic programmes.
NGOs hold to these main principles:
NGOs hold to these main principles:
- Rationalisation of the thematic programs should lead to more efficiency and more effective delivery of aid;
- Rationalisation of the thematic programs should be coherent with geographic and other programs and instruments;
- Rationalisation of the thematic programs should be consistent with the new Development Policy Statement and other EU development principles;
- Each thematic program should address the cross cutting issues of Gender, Children, Human Rights (including the right to food), HIV and AIDS, and Environment.
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| Full version | 105.37 KB |
| Summary | 94.53 KB |
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