Sharing and Cooperation

Increasing the quality of members’ work and their capacity by facilitating the sharing of relevant information and experience from projects throughout the developing world and on EU issues.

EU-CORD members have a wealth of experience of development and humanitarian relief work. Through sharing good practice, contacts and local field information members can raise the quality of all aspects of their work. There is also cooperation in advocacy activities and exploring mutual core values in relation to the future strategy of the network.

EU-CORD Workshop on EU Development Aid in Kigali, Rwanda

EU-CORD Workshop on EU Development Aid in Kigali, Rwanda

In early July, 36 local NGO partners of EU-CORD members gathered in Kigali for a four day workshop on EU development aid. The local partners work in Burkina Faso, Burundi, DRCongo, Kenya, Sierra Leone and Uganda as well as Rwanda. This was the eighth regional workshop on this topic that has been run by EU-CORD in the last three years and it again depended on institutional funding experts from their members Dark and Light and Tearfund UK as facilitators. The workshop was very well … Continue reading →

Development and Disability Training

© Light for the World – Austria

EU-CORD member Dark and Light is managing a Thematic Learning Programme about the inclusion of persons with a disability in development cooperation. About 10% of the world’s population have a disability and are often among the most marginalised and poor. This obviously has a huge impact of the everyday lives of these people and so also on development cooperation. Indeed the Millennium Development Goals cannot be achieved without including persons with disabilities. For example, one third of the 77 million … Continue reading →