FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION 30.04.2009

ROUNDTABLE III, Budapest, Hungary
Date: 23-24 April 2009
Fostering Global Responsibility
Building a Development Policy Knowledge Network to Enhance
NGO Public Outreach Initiatives in EU New Member States

Find here the presentations:

Global crisis and its impact on development countries - Joanna Siwinska

Financial crisis in the New Independent States (NIS) countries: its possible impact and challenges for development - Petru Veverita, CASE Moldova

Challenges for development

Impact of the financial crisis to international development cooperation - Adam Kirchknopf

The politics of Crisis: beyond orthodoxy - Gabor Scheiring

G20 London Summit Outcomes

Policy briefs workshop - Jeff Knezovich, ODI

Evaluations

Background

The roundtable, which was held in Budapest, was part of the project led by CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research (http://www.case-research.eu/) and Overseas Development Institutute (ODI, http://www.odi.org.uk/) with the participation of the NGDO platforms from the Visegrad group (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, so called V4) and funded by the European Commission. The main objective of the project is to promote a greater understanding of the development challenges, to facilitate greater public support in New Member States for poverty reduction efforts and to contribute to more strategic and evidence-informed policy dialogue and engagement for international development issues. 

Introduction

The primary topic of the first day was global economic crises and its impact on development policies on different level (national level both in donor and developing countries and regional, V4, level). This would be discussed through lectures and on a cross-sectoral roundtable. Invited participants of the first day are journalists, academics, governmental organisations and NGO representatives.
On the second day NGO participants have learned more about how to write policy brief in practice. Based on the information and articulated arguments around global economic crises and impacts on development cooperation on the first day, with the facilitation of ODI project partners and participating NGOs can outline a regional policy brief that can be further used in their own policy work and present it in the media.

This event was co-financed by IVF

Objectives
-   Provide an opportunity for NGDOs to engage with and discuss issues around the global economic crisis, its impact on the developing world and implications for development cooperation policy and implementation in Visegrad countries
-   Identification policy focus of policy brief, develop a policy brief plan and develop outline
-   Provide team members with an introduction to the principles/content of a good policy brief and the stages of developing a policy brief
-   Provide team members with an introduction to the links between communication strategy and the production of policy briefs (highlighting issues raised in Warsaw roundtable)

Outcomes

Participants gained knowledge on global economic crises, its causes and impacts on development cooperation. Participants gained deeper understanding on different point of views: can share their ideas as donor organization, as media representative, as researcher and NGDOs. Participants gained practical knowledge how to write policy brief and will be able to use it in their advocacy work.

Participants

Representatives and members organizations of the national platforms of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia; NGDO representatives from the host country (Hungary); media representatives; educators; government representatives.