Events

Target Group: This is an introductory session and is open to EU-CORD members and their national implementing partners.

It’s essential to be able to run successful meetings with donors where your organisation is well presented and understood by the donor.  We will seek to answer the following questions:

1. How do you plan and run a successful meeting with the donor?
2. What can go wrong?
3. How do you build a strong reputation with the donor?

We will be drawing on the experience of members and seeking to overcome obstacles that can hinder us.  It’s an area where we can all improve.

Target Group: This is an introductory session and is open to EU-CORD members and their national implementing partners.

Starting with networking which leads to collaboration and the possibility of working together in consortia to apply for and implement donor-funded projects we will be exploring the challenges, risks and opportunities drawing on experience from within the network.  No topic has come close to having such importance in our work than learning and understanding how to build effective consortia.  We will seek to answer these questions:

1. Why are donors increasingly wanting to work in consortia?
2. What are the risks and what are the benefits?
3. How do you participate and what are the do’s and don’ts?

This session will be interactive.

Introductory Workshop

EU-CORD is teaming up with Charity Impact to offer an introductory workshop on the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS). As well as an overview of the CHS and what lessons are being learned from those already working with the standard, Charity Impact will focus on why the standard is of particular value to faith-based organisations.

This introductory workshop targets faith-based organisations and their staff who are just starting their CHS journey (or who would like to know more about the CHS in general).

Target Group: This is an introductory session and is open to EU-CORD members and their national implementing partners.

Development programming to a greater or lesser extent is based on the principles underlying rights-based approaches.  We will be seeking to understand what this means and how we articulate this in donor proposals.  We will be seeking to answer these questions:

1. What are the origins of rights-based logic in development?
2. How does it differ from needs-based programming?
3. How do I include rights-based language and logic in proposals?

We will draw on the experience of members to present and discuss this topic.

With COP26 hosted by the UK and taking place in Glasgow in November 2021, in October we launch our campaign focus which picks this element of our strategy:

‘Communicating the impact that the climate crisis is having on those on who are least responsible and most affected.’ 

In this roundtable we invite members and their partners to share their experiences on how they are adapting programmes to meet new needs in communities, and we invite external speakers to share how donors are re-focusing their funding and approaches taken by DG ECHO and DG INTPA.

DAY 1

DAY 2

DG INTPA is placing particular emphasis on the benefits of digitisation in project design in the new budget plans.  We will seek to explain why this is and what the donor to searching for through digitised technologies.  We will seek to answer these questions:

1. What does digitalisation in the context of development and humanitarian programming like?
2. Why is this an area of interest for donors?
3. How do we respond?

Target Group: This is an advanced session and is open to EU-CORD members and their national implementing partners. Those attending should have some prior experience of working in projects with a multi-partner approach.

Increasingly NGO’s, partners, universities, private companies are working in collaboration with one another.  How can we identify suitable organisations to work with and make informed decisions with regard to their suitability to join in more formal consortia working to pursue shared project funding outcomes.  We will be sharing some practical analytical ideas members have found useful.