International Online Seminar “Digital Opportunities and Challenges in International Development”
Within the scope of the "DevHack4Impact – Digital Solutions for Development" program, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Portuguese NGDO Platform organise, in collaboration with the Presidency project "For an open, fair and sustainable Europe in the world",...
Africa-Europe Civil Society Survey: Closer cooperation absolutely necessary
More than 360 representatives from African and European civil society organisations took part in the "Africa-Europe Civil Society Survey" at the beginning of October. The importance of African-European relations was rated as high, but its quality was questioned. The...
African youth call for inclusive democracies
In their guest commentary Zigwai Tagwai from Nigeria (left) and Merryl Omondi from Kenya (right) explain why young people in Africa are frustrated by their exclusion from and exploitation in political processes. They call on society and particularly on decision-makers...
VENRO conference points the way for inclusive and transparent African-European relations
With more than 500 participants from 24 African and 13 European countries, the VENRO conference "Civil Society Driving Change: Towards a New Quality of the Africa-Europe Partnership" on 16 October 2020 attracted an exceptionally high level of interest. Held in a...
Conference “Civil Society Driving Change” via livestream on 16 October
The conference "Civil Society Driving Change: Towards a New Quality of the Africa-Europe Partnership" takes place in Berlin and online on 16 October from 10:00am to 6:00pm. The livestream signal starts at 09:55am and runs the whole day. Check out the conference...
Civil society driving change: Towards a new quality of the Africa-Europe partnership
In an opinion piece ahead of the Africa-Europe Civil Society Conference on 16 October, the VENRO Chairman Bernd Bornhorst explains why it is high time to involve African and European civil society in an inclusive and open political process between the two continents....
Presidency Project engages civil society in European public policies
From the 1st of January to the 30th of June 2021, Portugal will hold the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union (also known as the "Council of Ministers") - the institution that represents the governments of EU-member countries and brings together...
Take our demands seriously, proclaims African-European Youth Exchange
In recent years, politically involved young people have become more visible in public debates. But they often feel that "grown-ups" still do not pay much attention to what they have to say. The almost 30 participants of the African-Europe Youth Exchange took a...
A close and fair partnership between Africa and Europe is more necessary than ever
On the occasion of the informal meeting of EU development ministers on 29 September 2020, which will also be attended by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, the Association for Development Policy and...
EU Presidency Project launches civil society survey on the African-European relations
The four partners of the EU Presidency Project (CONCORD, Plataforma Portuguesa das ONGD, SLOGA, and VENRO) have launched the African-European Civil Society Survey. The online survey runs until 5 October 2020 and is meant to better understand the perspectives of...