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ANNEX VI
FINAL NARRATIVE REPORT
This report must be completed and signed by the Contact person.
The information provided below must correspond to the financial information that appears in the
financial report.
Please complete the report using a typewriter or computer (you can find this form at the following
address <Specify>).
Please expand the paragraphs as necessary.
Please refer to the Special Conditions of your grant contract and send one copy of the report to
each address mentioned.
The Contracting Authority will reject any incomplete or badly completed reports.
Unless otherwise specified, the answer to all questions must cover the reporting period as specified
in point 1.6.
Please do not forget to attach to this report the proof of the transfers of ownership referred to in
Article 7.3 of the General conditions.
1. Description
1.1. Name of beneficiary of grant contract: HORIZONT3000
1.2. Name and title of the Contact person: Christine Bedoya, TRIALOG Director
1.3. Name of partners in the Action:
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe e.V./AGEH, Germany
Civil Society Development Foundation, Romania
CONCORD a.i.s.b.l, Belgium
Development and Education Centre European Perspective, Greece
Ekumenicka akademie Praha, Czech Republic
eRko – Christian Children Communities Movement, Slovakia
Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali – Malta (Kopin), Malta
Light for the World – Christoffel Development Cooperation, Austria
Lietuvos Kolpingo draugija/ Kolping society Lithuanian, Lithuania
Polish Humanitarian Organisation, Poland
Terre des Hommes Foundation “Lausanne” in Hungary, Hungary
1.4. Title of the Action: TRIALOG IV: Strengthening Civil Society for Development
Cooperation in the enlarged EU
1.5. Contract number: DCI-NSA/2009/205-592
1.6. Start date and end date of the Action: 23.9.2009 – 22.9.2012
1.7. Target country(ies) or region(s):
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The 12 new EU member states (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Malta,
Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia. Slovenia), Accession countries and all
Candidate Countries (esp. Western Balkan), Austria and Belgium, all EU countries that had
the EU presidency in the project duration (Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Poland,
Denmark, Cyprus).
1.8. Final beneficiaries &/or target groups1 (if different) (including numbers of women and
men):
CSOs, CSO coordination bodies and national platforms in the 12 countries that joined the EU
in 2004 and 2007
Other non-state actors especially universities, trade unions, foundations, the North-South-
Centre of the Council of Europe etc.
CSOs and CSO coordination bodies in CC and countries that will start the EU Accession
negotiations before or during the project implementation (Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,
Serbia)
Local Authorities in NMS where appropriate
National NGDO platforms in EU countries that had the EU presidency
1.9. Country(ies) in which the activities take place (if different from 1.7):
Additionally to those in 1.7. we did a development conference and project field visits in Nicaragua.
2. Assessment of implementation of Action activities
2.1. Executive summary of the Action
Please give a global overview of the Action's implementation for the whole duration of the
project
TRIALOG supported CSOs in NMS to strengthen their national platforms in all aspects of
organisational development and financial sustainability. TRIALOG supported networking and
provided capacity building for development policy and advocacy for development topics and shared
relevant information on European level. TRIALOG supported the full and active participation of
NMS platforms in CONCORD and other European networks, encouraged regional partnerships
(between NMS but also NMS and OMS) and facilitated joint projects. In AC, TRIALOG identified
CSOs interested in international development, supported their networking and building of national
platforms and encouraged their inclusion in relevant European networks and working groups.
One highlight of TRIALOG’s work was the conference in Nicaragua on “Global Crossroads: The
Role and Perspectives of CSOs in Development Cooperation” in November 2010, which provided
space to reflect on these issues in the North and South and promote inclusive and sustainable
development. The conference was organised by TRIALOG, HORIZONT3000 and the University of
the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Cost in Nicaragua (URACCAN) with the participation of
around 120 representatives of CSOs from various parts of the world. Following the conference,
TRIALOG arranged one week of field visits for around 30 participants from the 12 NMS to different
development projects in the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast in Nicaragua. Participants
and national platforms concluded that there is a need for more exposure to the South.
Other highlights were the 2nd
and 3rd
TRIALOG partnership fairs, which took place in Vienna in 2010
and 2011. The 2010 Partnership Fair gathered 153 participants (53 from Old Member States and 100
1 “Target groups” are the groups/entities who will be directly positively affected by the project at the Project
Purpose level, and “final beneficiaries” are those who will benefit from the project in the long term at the
level of the society or sector at large.
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from New Member States) from 25 countries (12 New Member States and 13 Old Member States) and
at the end of the partnership fair there were 17 joint project proposals. At the extra partnership fair in
2011 there were 120 participants from 24 EU countries and at the end there were 15 partnership
agreements for joint projects signed.
All activities were carried out, indeed even more activities than foreseen were carried out, with more
representatives from EU12 benefiting from them. At the end of the project, all national platforms from
EU12 are official members of CONCORD and participate actively on European level, even if this
participation is often still limited due to limited human resources in the platforms and their members.
The active participation in policy and advocacy on European level will be a main focus of the
continuation project TRIALOG V.
2.2. Activities and results
Please list all the activities in line with Annex 1 of the contract since the last interim report
if any or during the reporting period
Activity 1:
Title of the activity: Conference at location W with X participants for Y days on Z dates
Topics/activities covered <please elaborate>:
Reason for modification for the planned activity <please elaborate on the problems -
including delay, cancellation, postponement of activities, change in target, etc - which have
arisen and how they have been addressed> (if applicable):
Results of this activity <please quantify these results, where possible; refer to the various
assumptions of the Logframe>:
TRIALOG engaged in 5 main groups of activities: Policy & Advocacy Dialogue, East-West-South-
Trialogue, Resource & Knowledge Centre, Information-Platform, and Coordination & Networking.
I) POLICY DIALOGUE
1. Policy & Advocacy
TRIALOG continued to convene the CONCORD working group on Enlargement, Pre-Accession and
Neighbourhood over the three years of the project phase.
Almost all of the EU12 members of CONCORD participate in the CONCORD policy forum, which is
the main policy body within the confederation and meets three times per year. The TRIALOG policy
officer was an observer in the Policy Forum as the convenor of EPAN, and the TRIALOG director
also participated as an observer, to ensure coordination and streamlining between CONCORD policy
priorities and the support offered to the EU12 platforms. TRIALOG further supported the
participation of EU12 members in the CONCORD Policy Forum, which were all CONCORD
members by the end of the project phase, through information sharing and the offer of preparation
meetings in cooperation with the CONCORD secretariat.
Over the three years of the project, participation varied between 3 and 7 EU12 representatives taking
part in the meeting, but generally attendance was higher in 2011 and 2012 than earlier.
Policy Forum EU12
2009 October TRIALOG, CZ, HU, LV, PL, SI 5
2010 March TRIALOG, CZ, EE,LV, PL 4
June TRIALOG, CZ, EE, SI, SK 4
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October TRIALOG, EE, LV, MT 3
2011 March TRIALOG, CZ, EE, LV, PL 4
June TRIALOG, BG, CZ, HU, LV, PL, SI, SK 7
October TRIALOG, CZ, EE, LV, PL, SI, SK, 6
2012 March TRIALOG, CZ, EE, HU, LV, PL, SI, SK 7
June TRIALOG, CZ, EE, PL, SK 4
Visits and meetings with relevant EU institutions were organised where appropriate, and were
concentrated around the three study visits each year.
Research and consultations on current development topics included preparation for and activities
related to all three central training events. The first central training event of the project phase was
devoted to the Lisbon Treaty and its implications for civil society. A lot of work was undertaken
related to the theme of transition, which fed into the EC process of compiling the European Transition
Compendium, now an interactive online database. This included engagement with the EC process,
involving the EC consultant in EPAN meetings and work; providing information on consultations to
EU12 platforms so that they could engage and organising a central training event on the topic.
Another main area included supporting CONCORD work on creating a development framework to
replace the Millennium Development Goals after 2015, with an EU12 conference and central training
event devoted to the topic in 2012. The main conference in Nicaragua was devoted to the role of
CSOs in development and development paradigm change.
TRIALOG continued to provide advice on policy dialogue with national counterparts, for example by
supporting various platforms with best practice examples of national co-funding programmes for EC
projects; supporting the exchange of experience on national Memoranda of Understanding between
platforms and Ministries of Foreign Affairs; and supporting exchange on the development of a
national development education strategy.
Advocacy work towards the European institutions was not necessarily carried out directly by
TRIALOG, but staff members supported advocacy activities of those in the EU12, such as requests
that came from Baltic participants in the TRIALOG study visit in 2012 for their national
representatives in the permanent representations to support their advocacy towards the EC regarding
the low level of funding being allocated to EU12 project proposals. TRIALOG representatives
actively participated in the European Commission’s DEAR study and the structured dialogue process
with the EU institutions.
TRIALOG supported the following platforms in national advocacy initiatives in EU12:
Activity Country Date Number of
Participants
Organiser
First national meeting for
development education in
Bulgaria
BG 12-13 September
2012
45 (first
day)
78 (second
day)
Bulgarian
platform BPID
with its members;
C.E.G.A.
Foundation and
GIP
Building effective
partnerships, for development
cooperation
LV 13 September 2012 16 LAPAS, the
Latvian Platform
for Development
Cooperation
Preparation of post-2015 SLO 13 September 2012 11 SLOGA
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MDG campaign Slovenian Global
Action platform
2. Study Visit Development Policy
Study visits on development policy were organised each year for a different group of EU12 platform
members. In the first year this group was composed of Bulgarian and Romanian participants, the
second year was focused on Cypriot, Maltese and Slovenian platform members and the third year
involved 15 CSO representatives from the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Each week-long study visit had a thematic focus and involved meetings with stakeholders in the
European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Economic and Social Committee, the
Permanent Representations to the EU of the individual countries concerned, the European External
Action Service (once it had been created) and CSO partner organisations in Brussels.
The agenda was designed in such a way that space was provided for group preparation meetings, free
time for individual meetings with country MEPs and an evaluation process, which included platform
planning for follow up activities.
Although it was originally planned that the study visits would be both in Brussels and Strasbourg,
once TRIALOG had carried out research into the relevance of including Strasbourg-based
organisations in the programme, it was decided that this would not be the best allocation of resources.
3. EPAN
TRIALOG continued to convene the EPAN working group, before handing over responsibility at the
end of the project phase to members of the steering group and the CONCORD secretariat.
It was agreed that TRIALOG’s position as convenor was assuming too much responsibility with
regard to drafting policy positions, following up with commitments that individual group members
had taken and providing the structural support to the group. Members were relying too heavily on
TRIALOG support without taking responsibility for their own participation and so the decision was
taken at the beginning of 2012 for TRIALOG to give up this role at the end of the project phase.
The TRIALOG policy officer managed a transition period in the final six months or so of the project
phase and responsibility for the various tasks was taken on by various steering group members, two of
whom were newly recruited. The group built up a degree of momentum that should ensure the
working group continues to be active in the future.
EPAN EU12/AC/CC
2009 October TRIALOG, BG, Croatia, EE, HU, MT, PL, RO, SK 7
2010 March TRIALOG, BG, Croatia, HU, MT, SI, Turkey 4
October TRIALOG, BCSDN2, BG, CY, EE, HU, MT, PL, RO, SI 8
2011 April TRIALOG, BCSDN, BG, CY, CZ, EE, HU, LV, PL, SI, SK 9
November
TRIALOG, BCSDN, BG, CZ, EE, HU, LV, Montenegro, PL,
SK
7
2012 March TRIALOG, BCSDN, BG, CZ, HU, Macedonia, PL, RO, SI, SK 7
2 BCSDN – Balkan Civil Society Development Network
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4. CONCORD Working groups
TRIALOG has always worked to support the active participation of EU12 platforms in the various
working groups of CONCORD.
A lot of work was invested throughout the project in sharing information and advice among the EU12
regarding important working groups, including certain events and activities undertaken by those
working groups. Financial support was provided to those platforms that were not yet CONCORD
members to engage in CONCORD working groups and processes in anticipation of their membership.
TRIALOG capacity building officer participated as observer in the CONCORD working group on
Funding for Development and Relief (FDR). During the reporting phase, the FDR working group met
three times. Whenever physical participation was not possible (e.g. because of overlap with other
events), contact has been maintained with both the organisers of the meeting (i.e. CONCORD
secretariat) and with EU12 delegates. TRIALOG supported exchange among EU12 representatives at
the FDR working group through the offer of EU12 pre-meetings prior to the working group meetings
to share information about relevant developments with regards to FDR and the EU12 context and to
discuss priorities and points for action. Following FDR working group meetings, TRIALOG
disseminated relevant information to EU12 platforms, including those not represented in the working
group. Currently, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Slovenia have permanent
delegates to the FDR working group but only attend sporadic; Bulgaria, Cyprus, Romania and
Slovakia might be able to send representatives in the future; Estonia, Lithuania and Malta are not
sending participants.
There was always an issue of capacity of EU12 platforms within the TRIALOG IV project – even
those platforms wishing to be involved in multiple working groups did not have the human resources
to be as engaged as they hoped. This is being addressed in TRIALOG V with the appointment of
liaison officers in each of the platforms to ensure the platform has a person dedicated to following
European level policy work.
5. Step-by-Step guide to Policy & Advocacy
The TRIALOG Advocacy Guide: 12 Years of TRIALOG – Advocacy Successes from EU-12 was
published in September 2012 after extensive research in cooperation with EU12 platforms. The guide
covers the steps involved in creating an advocacy strategy and the different kinds of advocacy
activities that exist, with best practice examples from EU12 platforms and organisations. It also
provides an additional focus on certain special stakeholders and extra input on the opportunities
available to platforms in countries holding the EU presidency. The strong focus on EU12 experience
in this area means it contributes a new angle to the large number of advocacy guides that currently
exist, and partners and colleagues have welcomed its publication.
From the logical framework:
For Expected Result Nr. 2: Advocacy and Policy work for NMS issues has been diversified and
directed to European and National levels
Indicators Results
Active participation of NMS
platforms in CONCORD lobby
and advocacy activities and
initiatives.
In the big lobby and advocacy activities and initiatives, there
was certainly active EU12 participation.
The AidWatch report launch has seen increased involvement
across the EU and now, national report launches are also taking
place to complement the European level report. National reports
include those in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland.
The advocacy group had significant engagement by EU12
members, with a member from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Estonia and Hungary.
TIS reference http://trialog-information-
service.blogspot.be/2012/03/aidwatch-activities-reloaded.html
Slovenia provides a good example of EU12 involvement in one
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major development topic: Policy Coherence for Development
(PCD). Slovenia for example was involved in the CONCORD
mass lobby that took place to ensure separate council
conclusions on PCD in May 2012. They also provided the
European Rapporteur in the European Parliament with
recommendations on PCD. More details can be found on p.68 of
the TRIALOG Advocacy Guide: 12 Years of TRIALOG –
Advocacy Successes from EU12
An initiative that came from the Latvian national platform is the
idea of having 2015 designated as the European year of
development. This has received a lot of support from
CONCORD, but also thanks to coordinated advocacy work, it
has also found support in the European Parliament and
European Economic and Social Committee.
TIS reference http://trialog-information-
service.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/2015-as-year-for-
development.html
There was also great involvement from EU12 platforms in the
CSO development effectiveness agenda and engagement in the
High Level Forum (HLF) in Busan. This was particularly
evident in the Polish platform, which held the presidency during
the HLF and which managed to get CSO members included in
the official delegation.
Until the end of the project at
least 8 platforms in at least 1
CONCORD working group
promoted common initiatives
vis-á-vis MEPs, DG Dev and
Members of the Co-financing
Committee on national as well
as European Level
The Baltic platforms worked together during the TRIALOG
study visit to lobby their permanent representatives about the
low level of funding going to EU12 organisations for
Development Education projects.
TIS reference http://trialog-information-
service.blogspot.be/2012/06/successful-study-visit-to-brussels-
for.html
A great deal of EU12 platforms were also involved in the
DARE forum initiative for a European Parliament declaration
on Development Education. This involved EU-wide advocacy to
get MEPs to sign up to the declaration.
TIS reference http://trialog-information-
service.blogspot.be/2012/06/dare-forum-european-parliament-
mass.html
EU12 platforms also brought the transition experience
perspective into discussions on the Structured Dialogue of
2010/2011 and on the future budget of the EU in the
Multiannual Financial Framework work.
During the project period, each
NMS platform implemented at
least one Lobby and Advocacy
activity with the involvement
of CSOs and perspectives from
the South on a national NMS
level
Almost all EU12 platforms have a national level development
day or days, which is a yearly event for advocacy and
networking and where they involve partners from the South.
The Slovenian platform SLOGA for example has shared
experiences of its development days during TRIALOG 4:
2009: http://trialog-information-
service.blogspot.be/2009/10/development-days-from-slovenia-
to.html
2010: http://trialog-information-
service.blogspot.be/2010/11/slovenian-development-days.html
The conference in Nicaragua sparked follow-up activities across
the EU12, notably in Latvia where joint advocacy took place
regarding the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Many references to platform advocacy activities with the
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involvement of Southern partners can be found in the TIS
archives, for example:
Slovenian joint advocacy with Afghan representatives - TIS
reference http://trialog-information-
service.blogspot.be/2010/02/slovenia-visit-from-
afghanistan.html
During the project period, each
NMS platform supported at
least one Lobby and Advocacy
activity of Southern CSOs in
their respective country
A significant amount of activity took place across the EU12
involving Southern CSOs in various advocacy initiatives. These
varied from events in Slovakia involving Belarusian partners to
activities in Bulgaria involving Balkan colleagues. More
examples are in the description of the activity above.
At the end of the project a
Step-by-Step guide to Lobby &
Advocacy has been elaborated
and published on the
TRIALOG website
The TRIALOG Advocacy Guide: 12 Years of TRIALOG –
Advocacy Successes from EU-12 was published in September
2012
II) EAST-WEST-SOUTH-TRIALOGUE
6. Development Cooperation Conference
The international conference on Development Cooperation took place in Managua (Nicaragua) in the
second project year. Additionally, TRIALOG cooperated in the organisation of an International
Conference on “Promoting Human Rights – Empowering Civil Society”, co-organised by
HORIZONT3000 and TRIALOG from 25-27 June 2012 in Vienna. Details can be found under 8.
Exchanges.
7. Field Visit
The field visits took place in Nicaragua in the second project year.
8. Exchanges
In 2012, EU12 national platforms were consulted with regards to their preferences for the annual
exchange activity. Initially, an exchange about volunteer sending programmes was proposed. Other
suggested topics were: aid transparency; effectiveness, quality and impact of CSOs after Busan;
human rights and development (as an exchange activity within the frame of an International
conference organised by the TRIALOG lead agency HORIZONT3000 in cooperation with
TRIALOG). After approaching potential partners for such an activity and exchanging with
CONCORD about the work they are doing in their own working group on CSO development
effectiveness, it was decided to support two activities: National platforms were encouraged to engage
in CONCORD’s very new working group on CSO development effectiveness and CONCORD
confirmed their interest in increased EU12 participation especially also in this context.
At the same time, platforms were encouraged to send representatives to the International conference
on “Promoting Human Rights – Empowering Civil Society”, organised by HORIZONT3000 and
TRIALOG from 25-27 June 2012 in Vienna. TRIALOG supported the participation of 22 CSO
delegates representing 9 EU12 countries and Serbia. More than 100 representatives of human rights
CSOs gathered at this conference to present and discuss principles, strategies and methods to
strengthen their working structures and exchange of good practices and project experiences. The
conference was an opportunity for CSOs from Africa, Latin America and Oceania, as well as from the
EU12, the Western Balkans and local Austrian organisations to debate in-depth human rights,
advocacy and lobbying and the sustainable strengthening of civil society. TRIALOG received very
positive feedback from the participants who reported that many ideas were shared and contacts built
across continents.
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9. Partnership Fair
Due to the significant success of the previous TRIALOG Partnership Fair held in February 2010 -
when many of the later EC-funded development education projects under NSA-LA line were
conceived – and at the request of EU12 platforms and their members, TRIALOG organised another
partnership fair in September 2011, which was additional to the foreseen project activities.
120 civil society representatives from 24 countries across the EU got together to work on possible
joint projects for the NSA-LA Development Education call.
The Partnership Fair facilitated partnerships, cooperation, learning and exchange at an international
level for joint projects for development. Key development actors contributed as speakers, facilitators
or participants.
Elements of the event were:
Presentations on EuropeAid funding mechanisms
A Market Place for the presentation of the participating organisations
Expert Presentations on how to write a project proposal and how to secure co-funding
concrete work on project ideas and shaping up project proposals for future calls
The networking happened through the market place, a set up where all the participants had the
opportunity to present their organisations (activities, vision, future project plans etc) as well as
through numerous formal and informal spaces for dialogue among all the different stakeholders.
The concrete activity of project design and planning was framed by the open space methodology, an
innovative tool that allows with great flexibility planning, organising and reflecting in smaller or
bigger groups as decided and formed in place by the participants. The many working groups further
divided themselves as needed and sometimes re-convened and merged, resulting 15 concrete project
proposals.
Speakers from various European NGDOs (Polish Humanitarian Organisation, CONCORD and bengo) and the Austrian and Czech development agencies provided participants with a multi-
stakeholder view of the European funding instruments for external assistance, practical proposal
writing tips, experiences for private fundraising and partnership experiences.
10. Partner Search
Beyond the successful Partnership Fairs, TRIALOG continued in assisting CSOs to find partners
among CSOs and LAs for joint projects. In addition to the online NGO database, between September
2011 and September 2012 TRIALOG processed around 15 individual partner search requests for
common projects in development education or other fields to bring together NGOs from NMS and
OMS. This was done through distribution of partner searches to TRIALOG contacts and publishing
most of the requests on our website and/or in our e-newsletter TIS. With regards to the content, the
organisations were looking mainly for partners in the field of development education for the NSA/LA
calls of the European Commission, but also different activities such as the European Corps for
Volunteers or regional programmes focussing for example on the Danube region. TRIALOG received
positive feedback about the usefulness of this partner search support. Additionally, many NGOs go
directly on the TRIALOG on-line database to look for potential partners for joint projects. TRIALOG
also linked its partner search with other partner search fora such as that of TACSO and of the Malta-
EU Steering and Action Committee MEUSAC.
As a result of the East-West-South Trialogue it is interesting to know where NMS are active in
development cooperation. Thus, at the end of TRIALOG IV we did some research on the partner and
priority ODA countries in EU12 and found quite a diversification in comparison to the situation some
5 years ago. CSO participation in ODA programmes is important in all NMS and thus, for most
partner countries there is also CSO cooperation (apart from those, where only technical cooperation
like students costs is covered). An overview of the TRIALOG findings:
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Partner and Priority Countries for EU12 ODA
Country Priority Countries Source
BG Priority: Armenia, Georgia, Serbia, Kosovo,
Moldova and Macedonia
Other Mongolia
CONCORD Aid Watch report
and
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/how/accou
ntability/eu-annual-accountability-
reports/documents/working-document-
vol5_en.pdf
CY Project countries: Autonomous Palestinian
Territories, Egypt, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mali
and Yemen.
Technical Assistance Countries: Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia-
Herzegovina, Gambia, Georgia, Indonesia,
Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Pakistan, Sudan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
http://www.planning.gov.cy/planning/pla
nning.nsf/AttachmentArchive/1D6633BC
4757FC74C2257599003BAF12/$file/Cy
prusAid%20Brochure%20Eng.pdf?opene
lement
CZ Programme Countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia
–Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Moldova,
Mongolia
Project Countries: Georgia, Cambodia,
Kosovo, Palestinian Autonomous
Territories, Serbia
Continuation Countries: Angola, Yemen,
Vietnam, Zambia
http://www.mzv.cz/public/d9/f6/92/5458
20_444905_Development_Cooperation_
Strategy_2010_2017___final.doc
EE Priority Countries: Afghanistan, Moldova,
Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan
Partner Countries: Ukraine, Georgia,
Armenia, Albania, Tajikistan, Moldova,
Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Belarus and
Azerbaijan, Ghana, Palestinian Territories,
Humanitarian Aid: Haiti, Lebanon, Sudan,
Iraq, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iran,
Turkey, India and Pakistan
http://www.vm.ee/?q=en/taxonomy/term/
55
HU Priority countries: Serbia, BIH, Moldova,
Vietnam, Palestine Authority
Project based partners: Ukraine, Kosovo,
Montenegro, FYROM, Kyrgyzstan,
Mongolia, Yemen, Laos, Cambodia, Sub-
Saharan Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq
MFA Presentation:
http://www.google.ro/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=
&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=7&ve
d=0CEUQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2F
capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu%2Fsystem%2
Ffiles%2Ffile%2F09%2F07%2F2012_-
_1434%2Fhungary_by_adam2.pdf&ei=A
vtfULbIOoaVswbwjIHABg&usg=AFQj
CNHCgloFc7oSnp2_tOE6_jXFZpchkw
&sig2=cEbKThzjuDVsD4GsekBm3Q
LV 2004 - 2010 partner countries: Georgia,
Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as in
Afghanistan.
Latvia’s Development Cooperation Strategy
up to the year 2015 advances as the priority
regions the Eastern Partnership states within
the EU Neighbourhood Policy, the countries
of Central Asia, as well as the countries in
http://www.am.gov.lv/development%20c
ooperation%20strategy%202011-
2015_eng.pdf
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which Latvia’s military missions or the state
dispatched civil experts are located.
Kirgizstan is also a programme country in
2012 (according to CONCORD Aid Watch)
LT Programme countries 2011: Afghanistan,
Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Palestine
2010: Belarus
Priority countries: Afghanistan, Belarus,
Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
MFA Website:
http://www.urm.lt/index.php?343958539
MT Focus areas:
Sub-Saharan Africa, Horn of Africa:
Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia
Small (Island) States:
Middle East: Palestinian Territories
MFA Website:
http://www.foreign.gov.mt/Library/PDF/
Malta's%20Overseas%20Development%
20Policy%20eng.pdf
PL Priority: Afghanistan, Angola, Belarus,
Georgia, Moldova, Palestinian Authority,
Ukraine
Remaining countries:
South-eastern Europe (Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Montenegro, Macedonia, and
Serbia)
The South Caucasus (Armenia,
Azerbaijan)
Central Asia (Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan).
Other small projects in Africa, Caribbean
and Latin America (partner countries not
specified)
http://www.polishaid.gov.pl/Interesting,p
rojects,577.html
RO Priority and attention countries: Moldova,
Serbia, Georgia, Iraq
Other countries (2011): Belarus, Caucasus
and Central Asia, Egypt and Tunisia
Humanitarian Aid (2011): Pakistan,
Thailand, Libya, Afghanistan, Palestine
MFA 2011 Report:
http://www.mae.ro/sites/default/files/file/
userfiles/file/pdf/aod/2012.08_oda_rapor
tare_2011_en.pdf
SK Programme countries: Afghanistan, Serbia ,
Kenya
Project countries: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Ethiopia,
Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Sudan,
Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and
Vietnam
http://www.foreign.gov.sk/en/foreign_pol
icy/slovak_aid#basicparameter
SI PRIORITY:
Western Balkan: Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania
and Kosovo
Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus:
Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova,
Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan.
Africa: Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Niger,
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
http://www.mzz.gov.si/fileadmin/pageupl
oads/Zunanja_politika/RA/Publikacija_
MRSS_2010_EN.pdf
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DRC, Ruanda, Sudan, Burkina Faso,
Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, Sierra
Leone, South Africa, Chad.
OTHER: Haiti, Afghanistan, Palestinian
Territories
From the Logframe
Ad Expected Result Nr. 1: The trialogue among CSOs and other NSA of East-West-South has
been deepened
Indicators Results
A representative number of people
from East, West and South have
participated in the development
conference in the first project year in
Managua as participants and speakers,
resource persons and facilitators.
The TRIALOG conference in Nicaragua on the topic "Global
Crossroads - the Role and Perspectives of CSOs in
development cooperation" was the main event of the project
and brought 30 representatives from NMS to Nicaragua where
they met around 20 participants from OMS and around 60
participants from CSOs from different countries in Latin
America, Africa and Asia. 5 participants from EU12 were
involved as speakers in the conference and another 5 as
working group facilitators/minutes takers.
At the additional international conference on Human Rights in
Vienna 2012 which was co-organised by TRIALOG, another
22 participants from NMS had the possibility to exchange
with 40 CSO representatives from countries of the global
South and around 60 CSO participants from OMS.
At the end of the project period each
NMS-platform and their member
organisations are in direct contact with
potential partner organisations from the
South
Please see description under 2.2. "East-West-South
Trialogue" (this chapter)
12 representatives from NMS visited
development cooperation projects in
Central America.
All 30 NMS representatives who attended the conference
participated in the field visits to development cooperation
projects in Nicaragua.
150 participants from CSOs and other
NSA as well as local authorities from
East, West and South and from
different societal sectors participated in
the Partnership Fair and elaborated at
least 15 joint projects.
The Partnership Fair 2010 gathered 153 participants (53 from
Old Member States and 100 from New Member States) from
25 countries (12 New Member States and 13 Old Member
States) and at the end of the partnership fair there were 17
joint project proposals.
At the extra partnership fair in 2011 there were 120
participants from 24 EU countries and at the end there were
15 partnership agreements for joint projects signed.
III) RESOURCE & KNOWLEDGE CENTRE
11. Training
Throughout the project phase, the training events were planned with the EU12 national platforms
through a consultation process based on the TRIALOG training offer. The implementation of the
activities and the logistical administration was supported by the platform. Whenever possible, former
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participants of the TRIALOG Training of Multipliers were involved as additional resource persons or
co-trainers in the activity to increase the multipliers’ involvement in platform activities.
TRIALOG supported 15 training events during the reporting phase, gathering a total of 178
participants. The details of the training events are summarised in the table below:
Name of Training Country Date Number of Participants
Trainer
EuropeAid Standard
Contract Management
SLO
13-14 December 2011 10 Faika El-Nagashi
(TRIALOG)
Ales Rovsnik
(SLOGA,
Participant of the
ToM)
Emilia Nunnari
(TRIALOG)
Public-private
partnership and
effective CSR
PL
28-29 February 2012 12 Petra Kreinecker
(Independent
consultant)
The use of media for
development education
and awareness raising
BG
30 May – 1 June 2012
and 3-4 June 2012
(4 days)
28 Pavel Antonov
(BlueLink
Foundation)
CYINDEP in house
training for platform
staff on the
development discourse;
stakeholder analysis of
CYINDEP
CY
13-14 June 2012 5 Kerstin Wittig
(CYINDEP)
Jale Canlibalik
(Participant of the
ToM)
How to prepare “the”
successful EC project
application
CZ
4-5 September 2012 22 Greta Jensen
(Independent
consultant)
Practical knowledge
about applying for
development related
projects
HU
11 September 2012 5 Viktoria Mihalko
Fundraising and PR
training for members of
the Hungarian NGDO
platform HAND
HU
12-13 September
2012
20 Tamás Miha
(HumanDialog)
Lobbying and advocacy
workshop for members
of the Lithuanian
Umbrella (LU)
LT
7 September 2012 9 Šarūnas Frolenko
(Independent
consultant)
Politics and practices of
development
cooperation in Poland
LT
21 September 2012 10 Monika Matus
(Grupa Zagranica,
Poland)
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with a focus on Eastern
Neighbourhood
Translating
development work on
the ground into policy
formulation and
advocacy (2)
MT
11 July 2012
19 July 2012
10 (Focus
group)
8
Anna Maria
Mangion
William Grech
and Dominik
Kalweit (SKOP)
Effective volunteer
management (2) MT
14 September 2012
18 September 2012
4
5
Nicola Critien
Anna Maria
Mangion
Fundraising in the
private sector SI
10 September 2012 13 Vesna Savnik
Advocacy seminar SI
3 September 2012 17 Sam Hardy (NDP
UK)
The evaluations of the training events are very positive and platforms continue to express the need for
various kinds of capacity and skills building training on national level but, as was started in the 3rd
project year, these activities will be decentralised to the national platforms within TRIALOG V.
12. Pool of Multipliers
In 2010, TRIALOG offered the first training course for multipliers in development cooperation – to
create a pool of multipliers in the area of DC within member organisations of EU12 platforms. The
2010 training of multipliers (ToM) was attended by 23 participants and was held in three modules
focusing on (1) introduction to EU development policy and EU funding for development, (2) project
cycle management and (3) adult learning models and facilitation skills. In 2011, 12 participants took
part in a two module training that also included both content and facilitation related topics and centred
on (1) EuropeAid Standard Contract Management and (2) monitoring and evaluation of projects.
During the reporting phase, the second module of the Training of Multipliers (ToM) training cycle
2011 as well as an additional training module in 2012 was concluded.
The second module of the 2011 training cycle provided further input and training on theories and
practice related to facilitation and the design of trainings (e.g. group dynamics, communication) as
well as intense training on monitoring and evaluation approaches and tools, specifics of the guidelines
of the then current call for proposals under the NSA-LA programme and exchange about the visibility
requirements for EuropeAid funded projects.
The second module and the whole 2011 training cycle were evaluated very positively. At the same
time, participants stressed the need for further training and theoretical inputs (related to the field of
development cooperation). Consultation with the platforms also showed that a crucial question for the
success of such trainings was with the selection of the participants and the design of the modules (i.e.
balance between providing input and providing training as multipliers). Through this consultation
process, it was eventually decided not to offer a new training cycle for multipliers in 2012 but to build
on the existing groups of trained multipliers (from ToM 2010 and 2011) and their high level of
motivation and to offer one additional module to (1) deepen the knowledge and expertise around
issues of development cooperation and development education and awareness raising, and (2) discuss
ways of further involvement as resource persons in the activities of TRIALOG. Thus, the objectives
of the 2012 module were:
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- to deepen the knowledge and expertise about DC related issues with specific relevance to EU12
- to enable exchange and peer-learning between the 2010 and 2011 groups of multipliers
- to foster collaborations between multipliers in DC for EU12 platforms and their members
- to develop relevant capacity building offers for EU12 platforms and their members
The 2012 module took place from 25 to 27 May 2012 in Vienna with 9 multipliers (2 participants of
the ToM 2010, 6 participants of the ToM 2011 and one additional participant representing the Cypriot
EU presidency project). The training focused on various DC and DEAR related topics, including CSO
development effectiveness and policy coherence for development, as well as project implementation
techniques such as time management and systematisation processes, intersectoral cooperation with
academia that reflected on gender, diversity and body politics in the field of development cooperation,
as well as further training on facilitation skills. At the end of the module, participants committed to
remain connected as an informal network and to express their wish to stay connected with TRIALOG
and get further involved in TRIALOG activities. Participants were also given the opportunity to make
use of the TRIALOG information platform to promote the resources of the TRIALOG pool of
multipliers towards the national platforms and their member organisations.
13. Central Training
The TRIALOG Central Training 2012 – the annual exchange meeting for EU12/AC NGDO platforms
– was organised in 2012 in cooperation with FoRS, the Czech national NGDO platform in the format
of a two-day event from 24th to 25th of April 2012 in Prague. The first day looked at current debates
around “Beyond 2015” that envision a new global development framework after the MDGs. EU12/AC
platforms presented their work around specific elements and related their own perspectives of and
approaches to a new development framework. This first day was organised as a regional deliberation
conference with the participation of additional stakeholders (e.g. Czech MFA and Development
Agency representatives) and was strongly supported by the Beyond2015 campaign. Tanya Cox, co-
chair of the European Task Force of the Beyond2015 campaign, presented the global deliberation
process and encouraged conference participants to further engage in the topic on national levels and to
contribute to the process.
The second day focused on the exchange between platforms and provided an overview of the platform
situation, the challenges in each national context and discussed the needs and assets each partner
brings to a project – and potentially network – like TRIALOG. Some of the shared needs centre
around securing the financial sustainability of the platform, improving cooperation with national
governmental partners and increasing the capacity of the platform and its members with regards to
policy and advocacy work (e.g. around PCD, networking and partnerships, awareness raising with the
media and general public). The exchange also highlighted the diverse assets of each partner and the
potential for mutual support and cooperation through bilateral or regional activities.
As at previous Central Trainings, representatives of CONCORD presented the annual priorities of the
European confederation and highlighted opportunities for involvement and synergies. A valuable
contribution to the Central Training came also through Markus Pirchner who represented the
EuropeAid Development and Cooperation Directorate-General. He gave an outlook on the EC’s future
DEAR programme for the period 2014-2020 and opened up the floor for an engaging Q&A session.
This Central Training marked the last of the platform exchange meetings in the current phase of the
TRIALOG project (TRIALOG IV). It also saw the broadest spread of participation of not only
EU12/AC platforms but also CSO partners from the Western Balkans. 45 participants representing
EU12/AC NGDO platforms and CSOs from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia and
Herzegovina contributed to the event and confirmed the continued need for increased cooperation –
preferably within the context of TRIALOG V, the next phase of the project.
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14. Organisational Development
As mentioned earlier, upon consultation with NGDO platforms and approval by the EC, the
Organisational Development Winter School was replaced by a third edition of the Partnership Fair.
However, those platforms that had expressed a need for undertaking organisational development
training or another organisational development event for the platform were offered such a possibility
(see table below). Additionally, topics related to the organisational development of platforms were
incorporated in the Central Training event in Prague.
Activity Country Date Number of
Participants
Organiser
3 strategy meetings of the
DEAR working group within
the Bulgarian Platform for
International Development
(BPID) to discuss the policy
paper “DEAR in Bulgarian
context“ and organise the
round table “Best practices in
DEAR in Bulgaria“
BG
18 July 2012
21 August 2012
5 September 2012
6
9
6
BPID - Bulgarian
Platform for
International
Development
CYINDEP in House Training
for platform staff on the
development discourse;
stakeholder analysis of
CYINDEP
CY
13-14 June 2012 5 CYINDEP –
Cyprus Island
wide NGO
development
platform
Review of the LAPAS
strategy LV
7-8 September 2012 19 LAPAS - Latvian
Platform for
Development
Cooperation
Organisational development
of the Lithuanian Umbrella
(LU)
LT
8 September 2012 9 Lithuanian
Umbrella (LU)
which unites the
National NGDO
Platform and the
Lithuanian
Development
Education and
Awareness
Raising Network
(LITDEA)
Fundraising possibilities for
the Platform
SK
10 August 2012
20-21 August 2012
7 September
6
7
6
Honza Kroupa
(Czech
Fundraising
Center)
Peter Gustafik,
(PDCS)
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Strategy and organisational
meeting for platform staff and
board members
SI
27 August 2012 9 SLOGA
Slovenian Global
Action platform
15. Professional Development
In the three years of the project there was very high staff turn-over, mainly due to maternity leave.
This meant a lot of in-house-training for new staff in order to pass on the experience of TRIALOG
and to ensure continuity.
The capacity building officer position was first assumed by Petra Kreinecker who finished her work
with TRIALOG at the end of September 2009. We then engaged Ruxandra Tanase who went on
maternity leave in the beginning of July 2011. Her maternity leave replacement Faika El Nagashi
started in September 2011 and participated in two training events on Logframe and on EC contract
management. She left TRIALOG at the end of May 2012 at a very short notice. There was no
replacement for the remaining months as it is not realistic to employ a highly qualified person for only
3 months (end of maternity leave of MsTanase in September) and over the summer period there is less
work than at other times of the year. The tasks in this time were covered by the remaining team,
mainly be the TRIALOG director and the information officer.
The information officer position had Anita Bister in the beginning of the project who was already
working with TRIALOG in previous phases. As consequence of pregnancy she left TRIALOG in May
2010 and Ulrike Bey was selected for this position. She had a broad working experience in the field,
thus no additional “information” training was necessary but participation in policy relevant events
was agreed. Ms Bey went on maternity leave in February 2012 and the TRIALOG project assistant
Elisa Romero was appointed as her maternity leave replacement.
In the position of policy officer (based in Brussels) Rebecca Steel continued from the former
TRIALOG phase. She went on maternity leave in July 2010 and her maternity leave replacement was
covered from September 2010 onwards by Monika Matus. Ms. Matus was offered work with the
Polish platform for the EU presidency project from May 2011 onwards and thus, the position
remained vacant till the return from maternity leave of Rebecca Steel in September 2011 and the tasks
were mainly covered by the TRIALOG director in the meantime. After maternity leave Ms. Steel only
returned part-time, thus we employed additionally Mirjam Sutrop as Junior Policy Officer from
January to July 2012 (6 months) to complete the policy tasks.
Brigitte Quehenberger, who was already in previous TRIALOG phases, continued in the project
assistant position till she went on maternity leave in June 2010. Her maternity leave replacement was
covered by Elisa Romero from September 2010 onwards. Ms. Romero changed to the position of
information officer in February 2012 (maternity leave replacement) and for the remaining time of
TRIALOG IV, Marie-Therese Filip was employed as project assistant.
In the position of TRIALOG director Christine Bedoya who has been working with TRIALOG since
2003 continued for the whole project period. Due to time restraints, no professional development
activity was done in the last project year.
16. Platform Support
The following activities were realised in the project period with 11 of the EU12 platforms (all
countries but Estonia) with the support of TRIALOG. The Estonian platform had no specific need for
platform support and no human resources to realise additional activities.
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Countr
y Platform Activity Title of activity
BG BPID policy consultancy
Strengthening the activities of DEAR working
group within BPID
improvement of information
services
Enhancing the Quality and Content of BPID’s
website
The Bulgarian Platform for international Development (BPID) realised three strategy meetings of the
DEAR working group to plan and discuss the policy paper “DEAR in the Bulgarian context” and to plan
the first national meeting for development education, held on 12th and 13
th of September 2012 in Sofia. The
event gathered more than 70 participants from ministries, NGOs, teachers and school principals to discuss
global education within the school curriculum in Bulgaria. Members from the board of the platform
presented development education practices and the work of the CONCORD DARE Forum. The brochure
“History of development policy at the EU and international level” also published with the support of
TRIALOG and the policy paper “DEAR in the Bulgarian context” were distributed to all participants.
Further teachers were provided with methodology and contents to integrate development education topics
in their work with school classes. The meeting was an important step towards a memorandum with the
Ministry of Education on DEAR policy in Bulgaria and the need to include it in the Bulgarian education
system. Moreover, the platform intends to expand the created network of teachers and practitioners, which
will be maintained by the appointed liaison officer within TRIALOG V. Finally, the First national meeting
for Development education sets the beginning of activities, which the platform intends to undertake,
including monthly meetings of the DEAR working group as well as organisingf a second national meeting
on development education during the next year.
Additionally the bilingual website www.bpid.eu of BPID was improved and updated and 10 new member
presentations, as well as 15 project summaries were uploaded. An IT course for 5 representatives of the
platform was organised to guarantee a constant update of the contents provided.
CY CYINDEP
policy consultancy
develop policy positions for the Cypriot EU
Presidency 2012
training for platform or
members
capacity building training programme tailored to
the newly recruited CYINDEP staff for the EU-
presidency 2012
The Cyprus Island wide NGO Development Platform CYINDEP compiled three policy position papers on
relevant development policy issues: Post-2015 development framework; The Multi-Annual Financial
Framework of the EU and its implications on the development agenda and Role of Citizens in
Development. CYINDEP had several meetings with decision-makers in order to disseminate the papers and
discuss its contents and relevance. The papers are also disseminated at CYINDEP events and other
meetings with MEPs, MFA, Permanent Representations and UNDP in Cyprus.
The CYINDEP team has only recently started to work in the context of the Presidency of the European
Union in the second half on 2012, therefore TRIALOG supported capacity building for team members in
the format of a two-day training on international development policies. Further the training contained a
stakeholder analysis, which was especially useful for the implementation of the EU Presidency project.
After the training regular follow-up discussions took place, as well as linking the training content to on-
going events and policy development on EU level.
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CZ FoRS
training for platform and
members
Training on how to prepare the successful EC
project application
improvement of information
services
Improving the FoRS websites and forum.fors
functions and design
FoRS, the Czech Forum for Development Co-operation implemented two-day training on how to prepare
“the” successful EC project application for representatives of their member organisations. Therefore an
external consultant was invited to introduce the 22 participants to the planning and developing of EC
proposals using the logical framework. The feedback was very positive and participants were happy with
the training.
Furthermore the standard of information sharing and promotion of FoRS activities and development issues
provided by FoRS to its members and the general public were improved by reworking the organisation’s
website www.fors.cz.
HU HAND
training for platform or
members Fundraising training for Hungarian NGDO’s
improvement of information
services Update the Hungarian Platform website
According to the needs expressed by their members, the Hungarian NGDO platform HAND implemented
one day training on practical knowledge about applying for development related projects and two-day
training on PR/Communication and fundraising, focused on campaigning.
The HAND website www.hand.org.hu was updated to make it more user-friendly and to make the
Hungarian NGDO sector more transparent. News was made more visible and a project database was
installed.
LV LAPAS policy consultancy
Building partnerships for effective coordination
of development cooperation
organisational development
of platform Review of LAPAS strategy
LAPAS, the Latvian Platform for Development Cooperation, organised an event to build effective
partnerships, and define shared visions, fields of activities and common actions for stakeholders working
within the field of development cooperation. On 13 September, 16 participants from different sectors
(NGOs, local and central government, academics, enterprises and MFA) took part. The event was
successful also for LAPAS, as participating NGOs showed interest to join the platform. Participants highly
evaluated the possibility of finding contacts and working on joint actions for development cooperation.
In a two- day workshop from 7 to 8 September 2012, LAPAS evaluated its work to review the strategy of
the platform and develop new activities. An external speaker from the Slovenian platform SLOGA was
invited to the workshop, which gathered 19 participants, representing 12 organisations.The speaker’s input
was highly evaluated and led participants to start work on the Latvian EU presidency project. In order to
ensure the quality of the workshop a professional trainer was consulted for the methodology and the
moderation.
In the strategic planning of LAPAS it was indicated that for more effective partnership and advertising of
LAPAS members there is a crucial need to develop the existing database (already supported by TRIALOG
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I and II), which could be realised with the support of TRIALOG IV. Further the strategic planning
workshop showed a high need for attractive internet based communication materials. Together with one of
the leading PR companies LAPAS developed the concept of an advertising animation that shows the
essence of development cooperation, encourages participating and reflects the variety of different member
organisations.
LT LU /
LITDEA
organisational development
of platform Preparation of LU strategy paper
training for platform or
members, organisational
development of platform
Evaluation of Lithuanian NGDO’s work;
preparation for Lithuanian EU presidency,
including capacity building in preparation and
AidWatch report
The upcoming Lithuanian EU Presidency highlights the need for team building among members of the
governing boards of the Lithuanian Umbrella (LU). Therefore an organisational development workshop
was organised on the 8th of September near Trakai in Lithuania. This team building workshop was
designed and led by an experienced facilitator who individually interviewed the participants prior to the
workshop for a better understanding of the structure as well as internal and external activities of the
umbrella organisation. The workshop helped to identify a common vision for the LU, to set internal
communication channels and means, to plan future activities and divide roles as well as responsibilities.
The workshop participants confirmed the need of such team building activities and were very satisfied with
the results, therefore the format is planned to be conducted in the future.
To deepen the platform analysis a research was carried out which fed into a LU strategy paper prepared in
English and Lithuanian. Therefore a survey was sent out electronically to member organisations and
personal interviews were conducted. The process was accompanied by regular discussion meetings within
the platform to develop joint solutions.
Also in September, representatives of Lithuanian development NGOs met for a lobbying and advocacy
workshop in Vilnius. The basis for this capacity building activity was a lack of efficient lobbying and
advocacy capacities recognised by Lithuanian development NGOs. The workshop was led by the
experienced Lithuanian lobbyist Šarūnas Frolenko. The trainer introduced participants to best practices as
well as necessary competences for engaging in such activities, which are considered crucial before and
during the upcoming Lithuanian EU Presidency, and which will definitely allow representatives and
members of the Lithuanian Umbrella - LU to engage in the necessary policy development and consultation
with the decision-making institutions in Lithuania. Workshop participants actively and willingly
participated in the practical tasks, which were based on a real situation of development cooperation and
development education policy in Lithuania.
Another one day workshop was organised on Politics and Practices of Development Cooperation in Poland
with a focus on Eastern Neighbourhood. For the input, Monika Matus of the Polish platform Grupa
Zagranica was invited. She could not only share the information about projects in the Eastern
Neighbourhood but also valuable experience from the Polish EU Presidency and how the platform linked
their activities to it.
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MT SKOP training for platform or
members
Two workshops, a seminar and a focus group for
NGDOs who are current or potential
members of SKOP.
Publish and disseminate the
study within the Maltese, the
Mediterranean and the
European development
cooperation networks
Coordination and dissemination of the study
"Maltese NGOs, Local Councils & International
Development Cooperation"
Due to the growing need of Maltese development NGOs to participate in policy processes, in order to bring
about sustained long-term changes, SKOP organised a workshop for member organisations to raise
awareness of this. A focus group of 10 people was formed to map the situation and the ideas were then
discussed during the workshop “Translating development work on the ground into policy formulation and
advocacy”.
Volunteering is becoming more popular in Malta, therefore SKOP organised a seminar and workshop on
effective volunteer management to help NGOs involved in overseas services and development to improve
their work in preparing and managing volunteer programmes. The workshop provided a space to share best
practices among participating NGOs.
SKOP published the study “Maltese NGOs, Local Councils & International Development Cooperation”
written by members of the platform board. The report provides information from Maltese CSOs which are
active on issues related to global development issues and/or migration, and from local councils, about
organisational structures, focus areas of work, knowledge about development policies and their opinions
about related matters.
PL Grupa
Zagranica GE quality
Capacity building in the field of global
education – quality in global education (GE)
The Polish platform Grupa Zagranica provided their members engaged in Global Education with
knowledge and tools to enable them to evaluate and improve the quality of their work. Therefore
consultations took place which involved the Global Education working group within the platform and
questionnaires were sent to the members. The Global Education working group prepared the report “How
to measure quality in global education. Results of the peer review of global education publications and
activities” which then was disseminated among platform members, the MFA and the Centre for Education
Development, a national teacher training institution.
RO FOND improvement of information
services
The Improvement of FOND's communication
tools
Based on the needs expressed by all members of the Romanian platform, FOND designed and produced a
set of communication materials to improve its visibility in term of members’ expertise, results, areas of
work, policy issues and monitoring the implementation of the Romanian development policy. The
following material was published:
- Annual Report 2011 which describes the main activities implemented by FOND and its members
during the last year.
- The FOND brochure which emphases on the main areas of FOND interventions, according to its
mission (in Romanian and English)
- The catalogue of FOND members presenting all members and their involvement in development
cooperation activities.
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- The newsletter for members (in Romanian and English).
- The website www.fondromania.org was redesigned.
SK MVRO
improvement of information
services
Update of the website of the Slovak NGDO
Platform www.mvro.sk
organisational development
of the platform
Capacity building training / consultancy for the
Slovak NGDO Platform - Fundraising
possibilities for the Platform
The Slovak NGDO platform MVRO organised a four-day consultancy/training for members of the
secretariat and the board to explore how to manage and find sustainable sources of funding for the
platform. An international consultant was invited for one day to draw the current picture of the platform’s
financial and fundraising framework. Then two days of training was held to identify all possible
fundraising activities which could be done by the secretariat of MVRO. The last day was dedicated to
concrete planning of the next steps.
MVRO updated the website of the platform www.mvro.sk to improve and modernise its online services.
SI SLOGA
organisational development
of platform, improvement of
information services Preparation of post-2015 MDG campaign
organisational development
of platform
Strategy and organisational structure and
fundraising capacity building of SLOGA
organisational development
of platform, training for
platform or members
Capacity building of the platform and its
members in advocacy
evaluation, organisational
development of platform
Developing a model of evaluation of Slovene
development assistance
The Slovenian platform SLOGA realised several activities to develop and improve the organisational
structure and strategy of the organisation. In August 2012 a meeting with staff and board members
was held to discuss strategic guidelines for SLOGA’s future functioning, thematic priorities, service
provision and institutional set up. The participants decided on concrete steps and prepared a draft
strategy paper.
SLOGA engaged in the post-2015 MDG campaign, therefore the policy working group within the
platform organised a meeting with the MFA in September to discuss the priorities to be included in
the future Slovene National Resolution for Development Cooperation post-2015. The information for
the post-2015 campaign was uploaded on the SLOGA website and included in articles of the
organisation’s newsletter.
Also in September a fundraising seminar was organised for the platform and 13 of its member
organisations addressing how to approach the private sector, introduction methods of fundraising and
practical examples. A second seminar focused on advocacy aimed at strengthening the ability of
SLOGA and its member NGOs to undertake domestic and EU-level advocacy. From discussions
during the workshop it is very clear that the NGO community and the government would benefit
significantly from a more collective and coordinated approach from NGOs towards advocacy. It was
agreed that SLOGA should initiate such joint actions in the future.
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SLOGA developed an evaluation model for assessing impact of NGO development programmes of
projects. The model focuses on project impact assessment incorporating a set of key development
effectiveness criteria promoted by the NGOs. A pilot evaluation applying the model was undertaken
in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to test the application and collect pilot evidences in a
report. The evaluation model is promoted among NGOs in Slovenia and will be shared with other
NGO platforms abroad.
In addition to specific training and other capacity building events, during the reporting phase
TRIALOG supported the participation of EU12/AC delegates in the following events:
Aid Watch Annual Seminar (by CONCORD)
ARCADIA Conference
CONCORD General Assembly
DARE Forum (of CONCORD)
EPAN Meeting (of CONCORD)
European Development Days in Poland
European Network Academy (of Attac)
Fair Trade Conference
Fundraising for Development and Relief (FDR Working Group of CONCORD)
GCAP Europe Annual General Assembly
International Conference for Sustainable Development
Nyeleni Food Sovereignty Forum
International Conference of the Palacký University in Olomouc “Europeanization, specialization, or
both?”
Red Cross Training "Field Logistics in Emergencies"
Red Cross Training "Managing People and Projects in Emergencies
Red Cross Training 'Sanitation'
From the Logframe:
Ad Expected Result Nr. 3: The level of knowledge and skills on Development Cooperation and
Development Education issues of CSOs and other NSA from NMS/ AC/CC has been improved
Indicators Results
40 CSO representatives participated
during 3 years in different Study Visit
on Development Policy, Expert
Sending, Development Education,
Development Cooperation, Lobby &
Advocacy etc
Altogether, 89 CSO representatives participated in the Study
Visits and the so-called Exchanges over the 3 year project
duration:
3 study visits to Brussels: 35 participants
Exchange 2009/Expert seminar on the future of CSOs: 29 PA
Exchange 2011/Rural development: 3 participants
Exchange 2012/ Human Rights and CS: 22 participants
300 CSO-representatives from the 12
NMS and all AC/CC participated in
trainings during the project period
Altogether 621 CSO representatives participated in
TRIALOG training:
year 1: 219 participants
year 2: 224 participants
year 3: 178 participants
At the end of the project a Pool of 20
multiplier from 7 countries is trained
Altogether, 35 Multipliers from all 12 NMS were trained:
year 1: 23 persons
year 2: 12 persons
year 3: deepening module for 9 persons who already
participated in year 1 and 2
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Every year platforms from all NMS and
AC/CC participated actively in the
annual Central Training
Every year, representatives from all EU12 were invited but
due to time constraints, volcano eruption and sickness, not
always all EU12 could be represented. But the information
(presentations, minutes etc.) was shared among all platforms
afterwards.
Year 1: 21 participants from 11 NMS
Year 2: 19 participants from 10 NMS + AC/CC
Year 3: 45 participants representing EU12/AC NGDO
platforms and CSOs from Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro
and Bosnia and Herzegovina
Until the end of the project in all AC,
Platform Building Seminars took place
and a coordination body is created
The only AC is still Croatia where we did two platform
building seminars and there is a coordination body
coordinated by the Centre for Peace Studies. Additionally, we
did a platform building seminar in Macedonia and there is a
group of CSOs exchanging information received from
TRIALOG. In order to start the platform building process in
all CC, we did a Balkan partner seminar in Vienna in 2012,
where representatives from Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro,
Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina participated.
IV) INFORMATION – PLATFORM
17. TIS - TRIALOG Information Service
During September 2011 and September 2012 nine issues of the electronic newsletter TIS (TRIALOG
Information Service) were published, distributed and simultaneously made available on the
TRIALOG website. Due to staff changes caused by a maternity leave replacement in the period, one
issue fewer than initially planned was published. As of September 2012, there are 2952 TIS receivers,
58 per cent from the NMS and Accession Countries, 33 per cent from OMS and industrialised
countries and 9 per cent from the Global South. The newsletter is further distributed among platform
members, and articles are sometimes translated into the languages of the NMS. The database was
updated in the summer 2012 and email addresses that no longer work were removed, so the number
declined minimally.
The TIS contains news from EU12/AC development CSO platforms, development NGOs across
Europe and relevant EU development policy topics. Articles are written by the TRIALOG team, by
TRIALOG partners and CSOs from EU12/AC who report on development cooperation related news
and events from their countries. Authors are both directly approached for articles, and submit their
articles upon the general call for contributions. Country representation in terms of contribution and
reporting reflects also the degree of activity of the platforms and their members. TRIALOG strives for
an even distribution and encourage platforms which are underrepresented to become more active in
sharing news.
In the 3 years project, there were a total of 254 articles from EU12 platforms and their member
organisations: BG 10; CY 22; CZ 32; EE 11; HU 13; LT 14; LV 8; MT 13; PL 32; RO 35; SK 28; SI
36.
After the feedback following the survey in March 2011 a new reader friendly html-format of the
newsletter was developed, for which TRIALOG received positive feedback. It was first published in
September 2011.
18. TRIALOG Website
The Website is updated regularly with articles and information focussed on development issues in the
context of EU enlargement. Some changes in the website structure were included in order to make its
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use easier and more interesting. On the website we present interesting material and all TRIALOG
events are documented including reports, presentations, audio files and video clips of key events and
messages, useful information and links. By using Web 2.0 tools like RSS-feeds, Facebook, video
documentations etc. interactive exchange is possible. In August 2012 TRIALOG started to renew the
website which was launched by the end of the project phase. The website got a new design, which
makes it more modern and a new, user friendlier structure. The visibility of donors and partners (since
October 2012 the new partners of TRIALOG V) is higher as they appear with logos and direct link on
the front page. The country information on the enlarged EU is easier accessible via the EU map on the
front page and flexible information boxes allow displaying the latest and most relevant news. The
“news” menu includes TRIALOG and EU12/AC CSO platform news. A calendar under the
“activities” menu is another new feature, where TRIALOG, CONCORD, EU12/AC CSO platform
and other relevant dates can be shared.
A special login area for partners facilitates the sharing of documents, for example minutes and
presentations of meetings, reports from internal events etc. and provides a space to share files among
the EU12/AC development CSO platforms. The login area is hosted by the TRIALOG staff and
accessible for TRIALOG partners.
In January 2012 TRIALOG created a profile on Facebook (www.facebook.com/trialognetwork) where
relevant news and information is posted regularly. Facebook is also used as a medium to link with
TRIALOG partners, EU12/AC development CSO platforms and other development actors across
Europe and beyond.
19. Database
A special part of the TRIALOG website is the online database of development CSOs which enables
CSOs in addition to the TRIALOG partner search to search for project partners on their own by
looking through CSO profiles and contact details, published on the web. This database is regularly
updated and enlarged, and currently there are more than 654 public NGO entries; the number has
increased from 630 since September 2011.
20. Printed Bulletin
The annual printed bulletin provides background information reflecting developments in the
TRIALOG target region and TRIALOG’s work. The targeted readers are CSOs/NSA and officials
who are interested in CSO activities in the enlarged EU and AC/CC. As the distribution is the most
effective if it is linked to a big event, the 2012 edition was published before the HORIZOINT3000
conference on Human Rights and the Study Visit to Brussels in May 2012. The 2012 issue includes a
review of last year’s TRIALOG activities such as the “Partnership Fair”, the conference “Advancing
Beyond 2015” on EU12 contributions to a development framework after the MDGs and the East-
West-South exchange of NGO representatives on the topic of rural development. Further contents are
relevant policy processes like the Multiannual Financial Framework of the EU and CSO Development
Effectiveness. It also provides an insight to Civil Society Organisations preparing for the upcoming
EU presidencies in Cyprus (2012) and Lithuania (2013).
The publication is distributed at various seminars and training events, as well as via the EU12/AC
platforms and CONCORD to a wider public. It is also available in electronic form and online to
ensure broad distribution and readership.
21. Articles
TRIALOG staff contributed articles towards a wide range of NGO publications of key TRIALOG
partners like CONCORD, DEEEP, and other stakeholders. The aim is to make the activities of EU12
and AC/CC CSOs and their contribution to international development cooperation more visible to a
broader community. TRIALOG also contributed to the electronic newsletter and the annual report of
its lead agency HORIZONT3000.
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22. Country Reports
Within the reporting period TRIALOG published three new country papers on the Accession and
Candidate Countries Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro in January and March 2012. These country
papers focus on the status of development cooperation in the respective countries as well as the
situation of the civil society. The reports are available online on our website and were promoted via
our distribution channels, TIS newsletter and Facebook.
23. Information Distribution
In addition to regular publications such as TIS, updates on the website and the bulletin,
TRIALOG makes sure to continuously inform its target group, especially the NGDO
platforms in the EU12 and CSOs in AC/CC. This information distribution via email contains
important development issues, latest publications and upcoming events, information on EC
calls for proposals, possibilities for funding, partner searches for joint projects and
possibilities to engage in international campaigns. Information is sent at least five times a
week.
V) COORDINATION & NETWORKING
24. Networking
Networking on national (platforms) and international level (CONCORD, other networks and families,
other stakeholders) was continuous. Coordination and networking is not only realised with
NGDOs/CONCORD but also with other stakeholders like the coordination of political foundations,
the coordination of Trade Unions and the North South Centre. There is also strong networking with
the national platforms of the countries that have or prepare their EU presidencies. Of course,
additionally to the networking we specifically support NMS who have or prepare for the presidency
which in the last year were the Polish, the Cypriot, the Lithuanian Umbrella (both Lithuanian
platforms) and Latvian NGDO platforms. In order to create synergies, we try to bring these platforms
together with experienced NMS (like Slovenia and Poland) or OMS that have the EU presidency
before or after, such as Denmark and Ireland.
From 3 to 5 November, 2011, the TRIALOG director was in Lithuania to support the Lithuanian
NGOs in the preparation of the Lithuanian EU presidency and to support the cooperation of the two
national platforms (Litdea and Platform) in the creation of the Lithuanian Umbrella. Another task was
to speak at the development conference in the Lithuanian Parliament on 4 November and to support
CSO participation in international development.
On 8 November, TRIALOG director and policy officer participated in a meeting between the board of
CONCORD and representatives from EU12 on the situation in their countries and their engagement in
CONCORD. TRIALOG also actively participated in the special event on CONCORD identity and
branding on 9 November, 2011.
TRIALOG director and policy officer participated in the European Development Days in Warsaw on
15 and 16 December and organised an exchange meeting for all representatives from EU12.
Additionally, as the main topic of the EDDs was on EU neighbourhood (Eastern Partnership and Arab
Spring) which is a very relevant topic for all EU12, TRIALOG offered travel and accommodation
support for participants from these countries to enable their active participation.
On 31 January and 1 February, 2012 we organised a partner meeting for all 12 NMS and Croatia with
TRIALOG staff, TRIALOG Advisory Group and CONCORD in Vienna to exchange and analyse the
actual situation in the area and identify best ways of support.
From 15 to 17 February, 2012, the university from Olomouc (Czech Republic) together with EADI
(network of European research institutes) organised a conference on EU12 as new donors in
development. The TRIALOG director was invited as speaker and used the opportunity for networking
with universities, research institutes and NGOs.
In order to share the experience of TRIALOG and motivate CSOs from future EU member states to
organise themselves in time, we invited CSO representatives from the Western Balkans for a partner
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meeting to Vienna. Together with partners from Slovenia we explained the “TRIALOG experience”
to representatives from Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This
should enable them to start more active engagement on national, regional and European level in the
topic of development and development effectiveness.
In March 2012 we had a coordination meeting with the Steering Group of DEEEP in order to share
information, to coordinate our activities and to agree on joint activities. The following day there was a
meeting with the director and staff from the CONCORD secretariat also on exchange, information
sharing, agreeing on mutual participation in events and coordination. TRIALOG also always
participates in the CONCORD general assemblies.
Besides participating in CONCORD working groups that are always also used for networking
(especially the policy forum), TRIALOG participated in core events and processes to strengthen the
role of participating NMS and/or to inform NMS about the events/processes. Just to name the most
important processes, where TRIALOG actively participated: CSO development effectiveness/Open
Forum, the European Aid Watch, the Structured Dialogue and the Beyond 2015 (Post-MDG) process.
25. Annual Plan
In January 2012, the annual planning workshop was implemented by the Project Team within the 3-
day-planning meeting of the team. The workshop included an internal evaluation of the last year and
the detailed annual planning with timeframe, responsibilities, milestones and priority setting.
26. Monitoring
There was permanent monitoring through the director of TRIALOG, the Lead Agency
HORIZONT3000 and through the Advisory Group of the project.
In the reporting period, Monitoring Sessions were included in the project team meetings (including
the Brussels staff) which took place in November 2011, January 2012, April 2012 (after the Central
Training), June 2012 (after the Exchange Meeting/Human Rights Conference) and September
2012(after the Advisory Group meeting). The results are included in the minutes and the Advisory
Group is informed about the outcomes in each meeting.
27. Project Team Meetings
Three 3-day-planning meetings of the full TRIALOG team from Vienna and Brussels took place each
year in January where the annual work plan was defined and priorities of the year set. In addition to
this planning meeting there were 4 full team meetings (1 day) in the reporting period for exchanging
all relevant information concerning the operational aspects of the project. These meetings were
always linked to a TRIALOG event in order to make best use of travel costs and time. Weekly Skype-
conferences supported the information exchange and the coordination.
28. Management Team Meetings
At least once a month there was a Management Team Meeting between the TRIALOG director and a
representative of the Senior Management Team of HORIZONT3000.
29. Advisory Group Meetings
Four Advisory Group Meetings with the participation of the consortium members and other experts,
took place in the reporting period, convened and chaired by a representative of the Senior
Management Team of HORIZONT3000, in Vienna. The agenda and written AG minutes document
the project process. The following AG meetings were realised: 23 November 2011 in Vienna, 30
January 2012 in Vienna, 13. June 2012 in Bucharest, 17 September 2012 in Vienna.
30. External Evaluation
As foreseen in the contract with the European Commission, an external evaluation on TRIALOG IV
(September 2009 to September 2012) was carried out between December 2011 and April 2012. The
evaluator Nikki Van der Gaag put emphasis on the multitude of tasks and activities of TRIALOG:
“On the one side TRIALOG cooperates with different actors in twelve New Member States of the
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European Union and furthermore, with key actors in some Old Member States and some Candidate
Countries. On the other side TRIALOG itself is an important actor in the field of non-governmental
development cooperation and awareness raising on European Level.”
Please find more on the results of the evaluation in 2.10.
The evaluation report as well as the validation of the recommendations of the evaluation has been
shared with the European Commission, the Austrian Development Agency and all consortium partners
as well as with interested platforms and stakeholder.
From the Logframe
Ad Expected Result Nr. 4: TRIALOG’s approach has been adjusted to the changed internal and
external environments of CSOs
Indicators Results
Until the end of the project, in 7
countries with stronger platforms the
project has diversified the activities and
concentrated on the training of
multipliers and on Lobby, Advocacy &
Policy
In the training of multipliers, participants from not only 7
NMS but from all EU12 participated. Instead of the planned
20 multipliers, we trained 35 EU12 representatives as
multipliers and 9 of them got deepened training in the third
project year. The issue of Lobby, Advocacy and Policy was a
core issue especially in each of the 3 Central Training events,
both on national and on EU-level. TRIALOG supported this
by providing information and capacity, linking with relevant
actors from EU-level, supporting exchange between EU12 for
mutual learning and providing the step-by-step Advocacy
Guide.
Until the end of the project, in 5
countries with weaker platforms the
project concentrates on
building/strengthening national
platforms, on access to EC funding and
on capacity building in development
issues
The main focus in building and strengthening national
platforms were on Croatia and Macedonia (platform building)
and in EU12 on Lithuania (supporting the establishment of the
Lithuanian Umbrella between the 2 national platforms),
Bulgaria (supporting the set-up and strengthening of the
platform structure, national DEAR dialogue among all
stakeholder etc.), Cyprus (support the creation of a viable
platform communication and structure in preparation of the
EU presidency) and Malta (support of organisational
development of and conflict solving within the national
platform). Access to EU funding was supported by the two
partnership fairs, by support in partner search, by information
distribution on relevant calls and on supporting participation
in relevant funding working groups. Additionally there were
several training on EU proposal writing and contract
management.
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By encouraging CSOs to reflect on
their role, at least 50 CSOs from NMS
have been involved in the process of
redefining the role of European CSOs
in a global context until the end of the
project
The TRIALOG conference in Nicaragua on the topic "Global
Crossroads - the Role and Perspectives of CSOs in
development cooperation" was the main event of the project
and brought 30 representatives from NMS to Nicaragua. All
participants did national consultations with other member of
their national platforms on the topic and did de-briefing
meetings, round tables and other events after their return. By
this, at least 150 CSO representatives got involved into the
topic. Continuing this topic, TRIALOG engaged more and
more in the process of defining new paradigms for the time
after 2015 (MDGs) and organised the central training 2012
and a joint conference with the Czech platform in Prague on
the topic Beyond 2015 where 45 representatives from
EU12/AC/CC participated. Consequently several NMS
platforms declared to become engaged in this process with
national consultations etc.
Another activity co-organised by TRIALOG was the
International Conference on “Promoting Human Rights –
Empowering Civil Society”, from 25-27 June 2012 in Vienna
where 22 representatives from EU12 took part.
at least 5 national platforms in NMS
and AC have been supported in their
discussions and negotiations regarding
the national ODA and development
policy strategies
There has been support to the Romanian platform by
accompanying them in meetings with representatives of the
MFA and the Ministry of Finance in order to create a national
co-funding mechanism. The Romanian platform was also
supported to link up with the Slovakian platform for setting
up a partnership agreement with the MFA and has
consultative status at the MFA. The platforms of Latvia,
Lithuania and Estonia were supported in advocacy actions
towards their permanent representatives in Brussels in ODA
issues as their MFAs delegate the Permanent Representations
to the EU meetings. The Cypriot platform was supported in
their discussions with their MFA in the preparation of the EU
presidency and its priorities. The Croatian platform which is
still in the process of establishment was supported to establish
a policy dialogue with the MFA by involving the MFA in the
platform building seminar and process.
2.3. Activities that have not taken place
Please outline any activity and/or publications foreseen in the contract, that have not taken
place, explaining the reasons for these
We did not realise the Winter School on Organisational Development for the national platforms of the
12 NMS. After analysing the needs and wishes communicated by the platforms for the capacity
building for 2011 and some further consultation, we found out that most platforms preferred to have
support for joint projects instead of such training. Some platforms already had long-term strategies
and yearly work plans; others were in the process already. Only Malta and Cyprus wanted to get
specific support in this which we did bilaterally in-country together with the platform stakeholders
(especially in the case of Cyprus as we were anyhow supporting them in the preparation of their EU
presidency project). All platforms got bilateral support for organisational development of their
platforms.
Thus in February 2011 we requested the EC to approve this change in the activity plan (to eliminate
this Winter School on Organisational Development from the activity plan and insert instead of it
another Partnership Fair to find partners for joint projects which would then be submitted to the EC in
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the relevant calls) which was approved in March 2011. This change had no implication in the budget
lines. The second partnership fair of the project phase took place in Vienna in September 2011.
2.4. What is your assessment of the results of the Action? Include observations on the
performance and the achievement of outputs, outcomes, impact and risks in relation
to specific and overall objectives, and whether the Action has had any unforeseen positive
or negative results. (Please quantify where possible; refer to Logframe Indicators).
The assessment of the expected results was already elaborated in chapter 2.2. As shown in this
assessment, TRIALOG overreached by far all expected results and increased both in activities and in
beneficiaries.
Following the assessment of the objectives:
From the Logframe
Indicators Results
Overall Objective:
Mobilisation of more
public support in NMS
and AC/CC for actions
against poverty and for
equal relations between
developing and developed
countries through CSOs
as multipliers.
At the end of the project,
CSOs from 12 NMS and all
AC and the broader respective
public will be aware of the
global responsibility of Europe
and also on individual level,
and concrete national and
European strategies will be
widespread for the fight
against poverty
There have been 254 TIS articles
published from EU12 platforms about
development activities of national
platforms and their platform member
organisations; The yearly updated
country reports of EU12 show that ODA
has been implemented by active
involvement of CSOs.
Specific Objective: A
stronger European System
of international
development cooperation
by the integration and
active participation of
CSOs from NMS and
AC/CC on European and
global level through
coordination, networking,
advocacy and capacity
building.
After the first year, the
platforms of Bulgaria, Estonia,
Lithuania and Romania and
the meta-platform of Cyprus
are active in CONCORD and
on the way to become
members.
All EU12 platforms actively participate
in CONCORD (General Assembly,
some working groups, core processes).
All EU12 participate in the AidWatch
group which produces the national aid
watch reports that are included in the
European report; all EU12 participate in
the DARE forum. At the end of the
project, all EU12 platforms are member
of CONCORD.
At the end of the project, the
coordinating bodies of all
Accession Countries are
actively involved in the
CONCORD-family and the
related Working Groups.
The only AC is Croatia which is
actively involved in exchange with
CONCORD (at the Central Training and
Partner Meeting) and participates in the
EPAN WG. Additionally, CSOs from
Macedonia and Montenegro also
participate in the EPAN WG of
CONCORD. At the end of the project,
Croatia is in the final phase of platform
building and is already discussing about
participation in other CONCORD WGs.
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Each NMS will be involved in
at least 1 Development
Education action with
activities in the respective
countries as well as in
Development Cooperation
activities in Developing
Countries financed by the EC,
governmental institutions
and/or private donors
There are numerous activities in every
EU12 country and reports can be found
in the 254 TIS articles of EU12
platforms and their member
organisations (links to all TIS in the
chapter of publications). In all EU12
platforms there is an active working
group on Development Education which
is organising multi-stakeholder
activities.
Each platform have realised at
least 1 Advocacy and Lobby
activity during the project
period on national and/or EU-
level.
The Baltic platforms have designed
several advocacy letters and organised
meetings on the MFF. The CZ, PL, SK,
HU and SI platforms are active on
advocacy for PCD. The CZ and PL
platforms have made many advocacy
actions towards the recognition of the
transition experience. The Bulgarian and
SI platforms are engaged in advocacy
actions for the Balkans. The PL, LV and
RO platforms are engaged in advocacy
for better cooperation with the Eastern
Neighbourhood. The CY and MT
platforms do advocacy for the Southern
Neighbourhood and the Arab spring.
There are many more examples.
2.5. What has been the outcome on both the final beneficiaries &/or target group (if different)
and the situation in the target country or target region which the Action addressed?
This was responded to in the assessments of the activities, results and objectives (in chapter 2.2. and
2.4.).
2.6. Please list all materials (and no. of copies) produced during the Action on whatever format
(please enclose a copy of each item, except if you have already done so in the past).
Please state how the items produced are being distributed and to whom.
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List of publications Date Format (printed
and/or
electronic/online)
No. of copies
(for printed
publications)
TRIALOG Information Service (30/09/2009)
TRIALOG Information Service (30/10/2009)
TRIALOG Information Service (17/12/2009)
TRIALOG Information Service (10/02/2010)
TRIALOG Information Service (06/05/2010)
TRIALOG Information Service (16/06/2010)
TRIALOG Information Service (23/07/2010)
TRIALOG Information Service (21/09/2010)
TRIALOG Information Service (15/10/2010)
TRIALOG Information Service (15/11/2010)
TRIALOG Information Service (24/01/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (02/03/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (15/04/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (16/05/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (22/06/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (15/07/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (23/09/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (13/10/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (17/11/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (16/12/2011)
TRIALOG Information Service (27/02/2012)
TRIALOG Information Service (16/03/2012)
TRIALOG Information Service (10/05/2012)
TRIALOG Information Service (19/06/2012)
TRIALOG Information Service (19/07/2012)
TRIALOG Information Service (13/09/2012)
26 TIS
issues
between
September
2009
and
September
2012
Electronic:
- via email
- on Website
- on TIS blog
receiver: from
2.540 in
September
2009 to 2.952
in September
2012
TRIALOG Bulletin 2010 November
2010
Printed
and electronic
(email, website,
TIS)
2100
TRIALOG Bulletin 2011 September
2011
Printed
and electronic
(email, website,
TIS)
1260
TRIALOG Bulletin 2012 May 2012 Printed
and electronic
(email, website,
TIS)
2360
TRIALOG Information Leaflet February
2010
Printed
and electronic
(email, website,
TIS)
4000
-
TRIALOG study on development cooperation in Croatia November
2011
Electronic (website,
TIS)
-
TRIALOG study on development cooperation in Macedonia February
2012
Electronic (website,
TIS)
-
TRIALOG study on development cooperation in Montenegro March 2012 Electronic (website,
TIS)
-
TRIALOG Advocacy Guide
http://www.trialog.or.at/images/doku/trialog_advocacy_guide.pdf
September
2012
Printed
And electronic
(email, website,
TIS)
300
TRIALOG Policy Paper on the European Neighbourhood June 2012 Electronic (email, -
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Programme (ENP) and Eastern Partnership website, TIS)
TRIALOG Policy Paper on Post-2015: Opportunities for EU12
CSOs
May 2012 Electronic (email,
website, TIS)
TRIALOG Reader on The Future of Civil Society Development
Organisations
September
2010
Electronic (email,
website)
-
Development Education in Bulgaria – Opportunities and needs,
main concepts and best practices (compiled by the Bulgarian
Platform for International Development with the support of
TRIALOG; in Bulgarian)
English summary available here
September
2012
Printed
Electronic (website)
50
History of Development Policy at the EU and international level
(compiled by the Bulgarian Platform for International
Development with the support of TRIALOG; in Bulgarian)
English summary available here
September
2012
Printed
Electronic (website)
200
Policy Paper The Role of Citizens in Development (compiled by
the Cyprus Island wide NGO Development Platform CYINDEP
with the support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Electronic (website,
TIS)
Policy Paper Envisioning a Just and Sustainable World Beyond
2015 (compiled by the Cyprus Island wide NGO Development
Platform CYINDEP with the support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Electronic (website,
TIS)
Policy Paper Multiannual Financial Framework: A Budget for
Europe 2020 Beyond 2015 (compiled by the Cyprus Island wide
NGO Development Platform CYINDEP with the support of
TRIALOG)
September
2012
Electronic (website,
TIS)
Study "Maltese NGOs, Local Councils & International
Development Cooperation"(compiled by the national platform of
Maltese NGDOs SKOP with the support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Printed
Electronic (website,
TIS)
200
Report "How to measure quality of global education" (compiled
by the Global Education Working Group of the Group of Polish
NGOs working abroad - Grupa Zagranica, with the support of
TRIALOG)
August
2012
Electronic (website,
TIS)
Stories from LAPAS (video created by the Latvian Platform for
Development Cooperation, with the support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Electronic (website)
FOND Annual Report 2011 (compiled by the Romanian NGDO
Platform FOND in Romanian, with the support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Printed
Electronic (website)
50
FOND Brochure (compiled by the Romanian NGDO Platform
FOND in Romanian and English, with the support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Printed
Electronic (website)
550
Catalogue of FOND Members (compiled by the Romanian
NGDO Platform FOND in Romanian and English, with the
support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Printed
Electronic (website)
100
Evaluation model for assessing the impact of the NGO
development programmes and projects (compiled by SLOGA,
Slovenian NGDO platform, with the support of TRIALOG)
September
2012
Electronic (website)
All TRIALOG publications (including printed publications) are made available electronically on the
TRIALOG website. All publications are distributed broadly to our civil society partners in newer EU
member states, but also in older member states, as well as the Global South (especially during the
TRIALOG conference in Nicaragua 2010 and the exchange activities in 2011 and 2012 with
participants from Africa, Asia and Latin America). Receivers of TRIALOG publications are also EC
officials and representatives of other sectors (governmental/scientific). Publications are sent per email
as part of the TRIALOG Information Service (TIS), posted on our website and on our blog. Printed
copies are sent in hardcopy to our main partners per post and circulated at various events,
conferences, training, meetings etc.
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2.7. Please list all contracts (works, supplies, services) above 10.000€ awarded for the
implementation of the action since the last interim report if any or during the reporting
period, giving for each contract the amount, the award procedure followed and the name of
the contractor.
For the external evaluation of the project we made a contract with Nikki van der Gaag about EUR
12.000,-. In the beginning of October 2011 we launched a call for applications with detailed terms of
reference and a foreseen time-line for the evaluation to be done. The terms of reference were sent to
all national platforms in EU12, to CONCORD, published in our electronic newsletter TIS and on our
website. Additionally we forwarded the call to recommended evaluation experts all over Europe.
2.8. Describe if the Action will continue after the support from the European Union has ended.
Are there any follow up activities envisaged? What will ensure the sustainability of the
Action?
TRIALOG is continuing all activities in a fifth phase (TRIALOG V) with co-funding from the
European Commission, the Austrian Development Agency and a consortium of 18 European NGOs.
The European confederation of development NGOs CONCORD is again consortium partner to
guarantee the European networking outside EU12/AC. For the first time, all national platforms in
EU12 and AC are consortium partners which will even more assure the ownership and the
sustainability of TRIALOG work.
2.9. Explain how the Action has mainstreamed cross-cutting issues such as promotion of human
rights3, gender equality
4, democracy, good governance, children's rights and indigenous
peoples, environmental sustainability5 and combating HIV/AIDS (if there is a strong
prevalence in the target country/region).6
Human rights are one of the most relevant topics we always include in our work. We promote the
human rights based approach with our partners and target group and support its spread. The topic
of the EU12 exchange of the third project year was on Human Rights and Democracy.
TRIALOG is always keen to promote gender equality on all levels. It can easily be proven by
checking the list of speakers, facilitators and rapporteurs of all TRIALOG events. A networking
project always needs meetings for exchange, learning, cooperating, coordinating etc. but we
always try to use less harmful ways of transport when possible (train travels), try to link several
activities in order to have less travels and do as much coordination as possible via skype
conferences or e-mail.
2.10. How and by whom have the activities been monitored/evaluated ? Please summarise the
results of the feedback received, including from the beneficiaries.
There was permanent monitoring through the director of TRIALOG, the Lead Agency
HORIZONT3000 and through the Advisory Group of the project. Additionally, TRIALOG was
evaluated by an external evaluator in the project period, the report was sent to the EC and ADA.
As foreseen in the contract with the European Commission, an external evaluation on TRIALOG
IV (September 2009 to September 2012) was carried out between December 2011 and April 2012.
The evaluator Nikki Van der Gaag put emphasis on the multitude of tasks and activities of
TRIALOG: “On the one side TRIALOG cooperates with different actors in twelve New Member
States of the European Union and furthermore, with key actors in some Old Member States and
3 Including those of people with disabilities. For more information, see “Guidance note on disability and
development” at http://ec.europa.eu/development/body/publications/docs/Disability_en.pdf 4 http://www.iiav.nl/epublications/2004/toolkit_on_mainstreaming_gender_equality.pdf
5 Guidelines for environmental integration are available at: http://www.environment-integration.eu/
6 To refer to EC Guidelines on gender equality, disabilities…
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some Candidate Countries. On the other side TRIALOG itself is an important actor in the field of
non-governmental development cooperation and awareness raising on European Level.”
From the evaluation report: “TRIALOG has achieved a huge amount in the last 12 years. During
this last phase, all but one of the EU12 Platforms have become members of CONCORD, and the
final Platform will join this year. Many people from the NMS now play an active part in
CONCORD. From a standing start, where as one respondent acknowledged: ‘Twelve years ago I
didn’t even know what the word ‘development’ meant’ – NMS Platforms and their members have
become actors on development in the EU in their own right, and amassed a considerable amount
of expertise through training, capacity building, conferences, meetings, study visits and
exchanges, all of which they are able to share with their members and with their Governments. A
number of respondents from EU12 Platforms in fact noted that they now know more than the
people working on development in Government and are thus able to act as unofficial advisers to
their Ministries of Foreign Affairs. And many respondents gave due credit to the work of
TRIALOG, which they felt had helped to build a body of people in the EU12 who are interested
in, and committed to, development.”
“There was praise too for the TRIALOG team from many respondents. Their hard work is
acknowledged, as are the many activities that have been carried out in a very diverse group of
countries. Those people who have attended one of the many events, and in particular the
Partnership Fair and the Nicaragua conference, are very positive about what they have gained.”
From an interview for the evaluation: ‘TRIALOG is the only place where we can have these kinds
of debates [about the content and issues around development]. If we sell fair trade on the streets
people ask: ‘What are you doing for our poor people? Changing minds takes time.’
2.11. What has your organisation/partner learned from the Action and how has this learning been
utilised and disseminated?
TRIALOG IV concluded 12 years of accumulated experience and expertise and it’s a
permanent learning process due to the changing environments for CSOs on European level
and on national level in the 12 new EU member states. Additionally, the different NMS
are developing with different speed and the needs in each country make TRIALOG
working on diversification of cooperation offers. Thus, TRIALOG IV included a lot of
new elements such as a conference in the South, field visits to projects in the South, the
creation of a pool of multipliers etc. At the same time, the need for continuation of the
activities so far was expressed by all partners, above of all in the NMS platforms which
are still not very strong, in those who are hidden very hard by the financial crisis and
above of all in all future Accession and new EU member countries in the Western
Balkans. The TRIALOG experience will be systematised in TRIALOG V so that it can be
systematically used in future EU member states for their accession preparation.
3. Partners and other Co-operation
3.1. How do you assess the relationship between the formal partners of this Action (i.e. those
partners which have signed a partnership statement)? Please provide specific information for
each partner organisation.
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe
e.V./AGEH, Germany:
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group
Civil Society Development Foundation,
Romania
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group and in the Nicaragua Conference;
input on the Balkan work of TRIALOG
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CONCORD a.i.s.b.l, Belgium close cooperation in many activities - details under
2.2. "activities" in the different activity areas of
the project.
Development and Education Centre
European Perspective, Greece
very good partnership in the first project year with
active participation in the Advisory Group and in
the Nicaragua Conference. Due to the financial
crisis in Greece, this partner didn't contribute the
funds agreed and stopped cooperation in the half
of the second project year
Ekumenicka akademie Praha, Czech
Republic
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group and in the preparation and
realisation of the Nicaragua Conference
eRko – Christian Children Communities
Movement, Slovakia
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group
Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali – Malta
(Kopin), Malta
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group and in the preparation and
realisation of the Nicaragua Conference
Light for the World – Christoffel
Development Cooperation, Austria
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group and in the preparation and
realisation of the Nicaragua Conference; active
participation in some partner strategy meetings
Lietuvos Kolpingo draugija/ Kolping
society Lithuanian, Lithuania
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group and in the Nicaragua Conference
Polish Humanitarian Organisation, Poland very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group and in the Nicaragua Conference;
active participation in some partner strategy
meetings; cooperation in the partnership fairs;
Terre des Hommes Foundation “Lausanne”
in Hungary, Hungary
very good partnership, active participation in the
Advisory Group and in the preparation of the
Nicaragua Conference
3.2. Is the partnership to continue? If so, how? If not, why?
Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Entwicklungshilfe
e.V./AGEH, Germany:
The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V
Civil Society Development Foundation,
Romania
The consortium partnership will not continue as
CSDF is now represented by the new consortium
partner FOND - the Romanian CSO platform.
CONCORD a.i.s.b.l, Belgium The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V
Development and Education Centre
European Perspective, Greece
The partnership will not continue as they have not
the necessary organisational and financial stability
any more.
Ekumenicka akademie Praha, Czech
Republic
The consortium partnership will not continue as
CSDF is now represented by the new consortium
partner FoRS - the Czech CSO platform.
eRko – Christian Children Communities
Movement, Slovakia
The consortium partnership will not continue as
CSDF is now represented by the new consortium
partner MVRO - the Slovak CSO platform.
Koperazzjoni Internazzjonali – Malta
(Kopin), Malta
The consortium partnership will not continue as
CSDF is now represented by the new consortium
partner SKOP - the Maltese CSO platform.
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Light for the World – Christoffel
Development Cooperation, Austria
The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V
Lietuvos Kolpingo draugija/ Kolping
society Lithuanian, Lithuania
The consortium partnership will not continue as
CSDF is now represented by the new consortium
partner Litdea/LU - the Lithuanian CSO platform.
Polish Humanitarian Organisation, Poland The partnership will continue within TRIALOG V
Terre des Hommes Foundation “Lausanne”
in Hungary, Hungary
The partnership will not continue as TdH Hungary
depends on TdH Lausanne who has set new
priorities for their actions which are not including
EU12 anymore.
3.3. How would you assess the relationship between your organisation and State authorities in
the Action countries? How has this relationship affected the Action?
TRIALOG has a very good relation with all NMS state authorities who are concerned with ODA.
Apart from personal meetings in the countries and at international events, TRIALOG is often asked
for sharing experience in special cases from some OMS or other NMS. TRIALOG is consulted from
some NMS representatives before meetings of the member state committee (either directly or via the
national platforms). The very good relationship and appreciation became very visible when some
NMS representatives asked the EC for continued support for TRIALOG.
3.4. Where applicable, describe your relationship with any other organisations involved in
implementing the Action:
Associate(s) (if any) none
Sub-contractor(s) (if any) none
Final Beneficiaries and Target groups: the cooperation with the national platforms of
EU12 and their members as well as with CSOs from Croatia who will create a platform
in near future was very productive. TRIALGO always consulted all relevant activities
with the platforms and their members and adapted the work plan according to their
needs. There was more and more ownership from the platforms on TRIALOG and as
result, all EU12/AC platforms are consortium partners in the continuation project
TRIALOG V.
Other third parties involved (including other donors, other government agencies or
local government units, NGOs, etc) In the stage of designing the project, there was a
commitment from SlovakAid to financially support the project TRIALOG IV. Once the
EC contract was signed, the responsible staff in SlovakAid had changed and the former
commitment had to be discussed again. After various discussions with this donor
agency (where staff changes continues and oral commitments of former staff was not
taken on) it turned out that there will not be any financial support. Thus, the lead
agency of TRIALOG had to cover the missing funds. Beside this, there was cooperation
and active participation of Slovak Aid and the Czech agency in the 2 partnership fairs
of the project.
3.5. Where applicable, outline any links and synergies you have developed with other actions.
TRIALOG was always keen to cooperate with other actors who have similar activities or target group
or objectives. Concrete cooperation or at least mutual information exchange was done with the
following actions (some of the cooperation is described above in 2.2.):
CONCORD
DEEEP
Open Forum/CSO Development Effectiveness
ASA/GLEN
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Beyond2015
North-South-Centre in the frame of the Joint Management Agreement
Coordination project of the Trade Unions
Coordination project of Political Foundations
Etc.
3.6. If your organisation has received previous EU grants in view of strengthening the same
target group, in how far has this Action been able to build upon/complement the previous
one(s)? (List all previous relevant EU grants).
Before the present project TRIALOG IV, there were already contracts for the preparation of
TRIALOG, TRIALOG I, TRIALOG II and TRIALOG III. Due to the continuity in lead agency,
partners and some staff, all TRIALOG phases had experimented a permanent learning and developing
process. The results of the external evaluation at the end of each phase were always taken seriously
and we always worked on the validation of the recommendations of the evaluation. The last validation
of the TRIALOG IV evaluation was done in TRIALOG IV (the document was sent to EuropeAid) and
guaranteed that the outcomes of TRIALOG IV were fully integrated in TRIALOG V (the continuation
project).
3.7. How do you evaluate co-operation with the services of the Contracting Authority?
For TRIALOG there was a very productive cooperation with the unit in charge of content. Especially
with Markus Pirchner and his team we had always good communication and quick feed-back to any
question or concern. There was participation of members of this unit in TRIALOG events (such as the
Development Education Partnership Fair and the central training) which not only enriched our direct
communication and understanding but also brought our target group from NMS closer to EuropeAid.
We highly appreciate this direct involvement of engaged persons from the contracting authority in
special events of the action.
4. Visibility
How is the visibility of the EU contribution being ensured in the Action?
The logo of the EU is on all our publications, the website, at the folder, the banner, the headed
paper etc. as indicated in the contract. A copy of all publications was provided to EuropeAid
The European Commission may wish to publicise the results of Actions. Do you have any
objection to this report being published on the EuropeAid website? If so, please state your
objections here.
Name of the contact person for the Action: ……Christine Bedoya……………
Signature: …… ……Location: ……Vienna……………
Date report due: …22. December 2012…..…Date report sent: …10 December 2012……
Abbreviations AC Accession Country to the EU CC Candidate Country to the EU
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CSO Civil Society Organisation CONCORD European NG0 Confederation for Relief and Development DARE CONCORD WG on Development Education and Awareness Raising EC European Commission ENPI European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument EU European Union EU12 New Member States of the European Union since 2004 FDR CONCORD WG “Funding for Development and Relief” IPA Instrument for Pre-Accession LA Local Authority MDGs Millennium Development Goals MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFF Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 NMS New Member States of the European Union since 2004 NP National Platform of NGDOs NGO Non Governmental Organization NGDO Non Governmental Development Organization ODA Official Development Assistance OMS Old Member States of the European Union before 2004 PA Participants WG Working Group