Open Forum For Cso Development Effectiveness

Civil society organisations (CSOs) have a crucial role in the development process as innovative agents of change and social transformation. All stakeholders – donors, developing country governments, CSOs and communities – have a stake in assuring that CSOs realise their full potential. CSOs have acknowledged their obligation to take forward and lead a process to improve their own effectiveness as development actors. At the end of June 2008 more than 70 civil society delegates, representing a rich diversity and large constituency of CSOs, from both developed and developing countries, gathered in Paris to take up the challenges of CSO effectiveness in development. To this end, they have launched an Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness, which will run until December 2011. For more questions, please visit our website (www.cso-effectiveness.org), or contact us at info@cso-effectiveness.org