CONCORD is the European NGO confederation for Relief and Development. Its 26 national associations, 18 international networks and 1 associate member represent 1,800 NGOs which are supported by millions of citizens across Europe.
Key documents of information about CONCORD
CONCORD Structure
Objectives, Principles and Priorities
Members
Statutory information
Today, more than ever, an increasing number of people still live in unacceptable circumstances, often in violent conflict areas, deprived of the most elementary provisions such as food, water, healthcare and security.
As European citizens, living in this privileged part of the world, we have an obligation to help the people and civil organisations of developing countries to improve living conditions by providing them with financial and political support. Their voices must be heard by Western governments.
By uniting, European development NGOs commit themselves to keep development co-operation high on the political agenda of advanced countries and the European Institutions in particular. European NGOs will continue to make institutions aware of how their economic and political choices impact on the most deprived countries.
CONCORD's unique structure allows it to play two major roles:
• The presenting of joint positions representative of its Members organisation to reinforce ability to advocate at European level.
• The co-ordination of NGO activities through combining expertise, competencies and capacities in order to promote information sharing and to encourage reflection.
Furthermore, CONCORD plan of action is as follows:
• To intensify Working Group activities in order to influence political debate and policy formulation on development and humanitarian issues.
• To improve representation mechanisms and transparency in order to guarantee CONCORD legitimacy as the representative of NGOs.
• To establish a continuous and quality dialogue with the European Institutions to firmly promote European development NGOs as strategic partners to the European Institutions.
• To promote the quality of the work of development NGOs, particularly regarding relations with Civil Society in the South.
• To contribute to capacity building at NGO level.
This strategy is meant to complete the strategic approach 2 of CONCORD 2009-2015 Action Plan by:
This strategy aims at defining a vision and objectives for CONCORD political engagement with European institutions, including the member states, and making this engagement more strategic and coordinated. It should help CONCORD to become the main interlocutor from civil society on development issues for EU institutions. It should also help clarify how the ‘political game’ is evolving (dynamics) between the institutions.
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CONCORD envisages a world where a prosperous Europe enjoys an open relationship with the global community, sharing wealth and expertise to ensure that all the earth’s citizens live a life of dignity and enjoy full rights to development.
CONCORD will be a platform for common action at European level, based on the values of respect for the diversity of its membership, the complementarity of expertise, mutual confidence, participation, accountability and transparency.
CONCORD works to ensure that:
• The EU and member states are fully committed to and implement comprehensive and coherent policies towards the developing world that are based on the principles of solidarity, human rights, justice and democracy, and which aim to address the causes of poverty and conflict and promote sustainable economic and social development.
• The European NGDO movement is active and fully engaged in promoting EU policies that have a positive impact on developing countries and have the capacity to influence the direction of these policies.
• The role of the NGDOs is valued and protected as an authentic voice of European civil society that is engaged in issues of development and global justice.
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