LESSON
Lesson Learned: Pour une Diplomatie Non Gouvernementale
The project activities had an impact on those platforms and NGOs that were directly involved but it is not clear how the platforms and networks will be sustainable in the longer term given the lack of a strategic fundraising approach. The grantee needs to search for alternative and diversified sources of funding to ensure continuity of the activities and optimization of the effects and impact of the initiatives undertaken.
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Coordination SUD
Project Description
The objective of the project was to strengthen national and regional platforms of civil society organizations and to increase their influence. The project was based on the strategy that civil society platforms should play an important role in national, regional, and international negotiations. The project aimed to democratize debates on globalization and to enhance the influence of national and regional platforms on public policy-making. The project goals were: to develop national and regional NGO platforms; to enhance CSO advocacy skills through six exercises in nongovernmental diplomacy; the launch of an International NGO Resource Center; and the institutionalization and consolidation of the International Forum of National NGO Platforms. The project worked with national NGO platforms in Brazil, Chile, Senegal and the USA as well as regional platforms based in West Africa, India and Central Africa.
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Evaluation Date
March 2012
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