An Enabling Environment for CSOs as Development Actors

Brian Tomlinson, 2017. An Enabling Environment for Canadian CSOs: Appropriate Donor Funding Mechanisms for Effective CSO Partnerships, A Discussion Paper.  February 2017.

Inter-Council Network, 2016. Small and Medium Size Civil Society Organizations as Development Actors: A review of evidence, A Report prepared for the Inter-Council Network by Brian Tomlinson, AidWatch Canada, April 2016.

Canadian Council for International Cooperation and the Inter-Council Network, 2014. Establishing an enabling environment for civil society organizations in Canada: Key issues affecting Canadian international development and humanitarian organizations, A Report prepared for the Inter-Council Network and CCIC by Brian Tomlinson, June 2014.

Brian Tomlinson, 2014. “The Journey from Istanbul: A Synthesis of evidence on the implementation of the CSO Development Effectiveness Principles: Summary Overview”, in Civil Society Partnership for Effective Development, The Journey from Istanbul: A Synthesis of Evidence on the implementation of the CSO DE Principles, A report including case studies by the CPDE Working Group on CSO Development Effectiveness.

Civil Society Partnership for Effective Development, 2013. An Enabling Environment for CSOs: A synthesis of evidence of progress since Busan. A paper prepared by Brian Tomlinson for the Working Group on CSO Enabling Environment of the CPDE, October 2013.

UNDP China 2013. Working with Civil Society in Foreign Aid: Possibilities for South-South Cooperation?, an e-book publication prepared for the UNDP China by Brian Tomlinson, September 2013.

Canadian Council for International Cooperation and the Inter-Council Network, 2012. “Putting Partnership Back at the Heart of Development: Canadian Civil Society Experience with CIDA’s Call-for-Proposal Mechanisms, Partnerships with Canadians Branch,” An analysis of survey results prepared by Brian Tomlinson for CCIC and the ICN, March 2012.

Canadian Council for International Cooperation, 2010. Canadian Consultation for the Open Forum on CSO Development Effectiveness, April 2010.

 

Istanbul Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness

International Framework for CSO Development Effectiveness , June 2011, Agreed by the 2nd Global Assembly, Open Forum for CSO Development Effectiveness, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Istanbul Principles for CSO Development Effectiveness, September 2010, Agreed by the Open Forum’s Global Assembly, Istanbul, Turkey