EC Funding Instruments
APRODEV is engaged in reflection, information and advocacy work on EU budget and funding issues with the objective to make sure that
Brussels counts in seconds, rural areas count in seasons...
this was one of the conclusions from a training workshop on EC funding organised by Aprodev members in Nairobi in March 2006.
Future EC thematic programmes and budget lines
The rationalisation of the EC aid instruments and budget lines has been subject to long debates and multiple consultations inside the Commission and with external stakeholders. NGOs and Aprodev in particular have been part of it through CONCORD since the beginning of the process and have published several contributions to the debate in the forms of briefings and position papers. European NGOs particularly concentrated their work on the future programme for civil society organisations that will replace the existing co-financing budget line and the programmes and budget lines related to human and social development and to human rights and democracy.
A presentation of the future aid instruments and thematic programmes in a schematic form based on the provisional information available in July 2006.
This joint statement from several EU NGO networks active in different areas of work came in anticipation of a series of communications on each of the proposed new thematic programmes published by the EC in the beginning of 2006.
The purpose of this paper is to set out where European Development NGOs see civil society
relations with the EC going, both within Europe and in developing countries and how a future
Civil Society Organisation (CSO) thematic programme could contribute to that bigger vision. It was prepared on the basis of a broad two-stage consultation of CONCORD members based on a discussion paper prepared by a small task force including Aprodev.
This paper seeks to set out the basic principles shared by CONCORD members relating to the overall process of rationalising the EC’s thematic funding instruments in the field of external relations.
The NDGOs response presents NGDOs concerns and makes recommendations on the EU policy towards civil society participation, the programming of EC aid, the deconcentration of aid management to the delegations, the role and importance of thematic budget lines and the modalities of their implementation.
Since the publication of these two papers, the process of rationalisation of EC aid instruments has been postponed to a later stage (probably 2005-2006) when the 2007-2013 multi-annual political and financial framework of the enlarged Union will be decided. More information on that new multi-annual framework at “Future of EU development Policy”
Briefing paper on the introduction of output targets and performance indicators in the EU Development Aid budget. The paper refers to the on-going debate between the Commission and the European Parliament on this issue.
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