Accessing Funding

Improving members’ and their local partners’ success rate with funding levels from the European Union and other donors, and their capacity to manage these projects well.

The EU is collectively (the Member States and the European Commission) the world’s biggest aid donor and is appropriately an important source of funding for a network of European relief and development agencies.

Peru Workshop on EU Funding

Peru workshop on EU funding

EU-CORD recognises the complexity of the EU rules and regulations that govern its development aid to civil society. The EU has decentralised the management of its development aid to its Delegations in the developing world, where local NGOs can apply for EU funds. This offers a major opportunity to members’ local partners but many need to build their capacity first. In response, EU-CORD runs workshops in developing countries for members’ local partners to build their capacity to access EU development … Continue reading →

Reviewing EU-CORD’s EU Funding in 2010

KNH in Haiti - Projekte in Leogane

In 2010 EU-CORD members were managing EU-funded relief and development projects worth 65.7 million euro, representing a significant increase on 2009. Humanitarian aid projects funded by DG ECHO rose to 25 million euro and development projects funded by DG DEVCO rose to 40.7 million euro. The EU funds diverse range of development projects implemented by many EU-CORD members, 45 in total during 2010, located in 24 developing countries. Given the global food crisis, it was natural that several were building … Continue reading →