Since 2005, CONCORD’s AidWatch reports have monitored and made recommendations on the quantity and quality of aid provided by the EU and its Member States. With the AidWatch publications, CONCORD members want to hold EU leaders accountable for their ODA commitments, including the longstanding target of allocating 0.7% GNI to ODA.
The role of Civil Society Organisations in implementing development cooperation programmes and providing funding for CSOs is a key aspect of EU international partnerships. Likewise, for many CSOs the EU partnership is a vital source of income for their programmes. In recent years, the changes in EU international cooperation programmes have impacted the distribution and diversity of EU funding for CSOs.
2023 marks the mid-term point of the implementation of the EU’s Action Plan on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in External Action 2021–2025 (GAP III). GAP III is an...
Inequalities persist at high levels throughout the world and they affect individuals in a wide range of ways. Europe has a particular responsibility with respect to inequalities,...
EU Member States committed themselves to tackling inequalities when they adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the European Consensus on Development (2017) and the...
To ensure equality in the digital space, we must engage women and girls and civil society in the design and development of technology. It is necessary to effectively and meaningfully respond to specific gaps and needs in infrastructure to ensure a truly gender-transformative approach to technology. This paper analyses the digital gender divide and our recommendations for the EU on how to close it.
This new CONCORD report, “A Test of the EU’s Integrity Towards the 2030 Agenda: The Status of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development”, tracks existing PC(S)D mechanisms in...
Rising inequalities are among the most complex and pressing issues of our century. Protests around the wold show the urgency of the matter. How can we tackle this...
The quantity of Official Development Assistance (ODA) remains key for achieving sustainable development, but ‘how’ ODA is used is equally crucial to ensure that no one is left...
Approaching the end of EU Gender Action Plan (II, "Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment: Transforming the Lives of Girls and Women through EU External Relations 2016-2020),...