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ACP Civil Society Forum

Acronym: ACP CSF

General Information

Identification Code: 36703913506-85
Entity Form: Official forum of ACP Civil Society organisations (INTRA ACP) established for the ACP-EU cooperation and implementation of the provisions of the Cotonou Agreement on active involvement of ACP civil society organisations as actors of the ACP-EU cooperation
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 4/26/2010
Last Update: 2/13/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: Our aims are: · To promote, facilitate and enhance the vital contributions of regional and national grassroots, community based and other civil society organizations, who work for the benefit of the people of the ACP states and regions. · To work together with EU actors and organisations in accordance with article 5 of the ACP-EC Partnership Agreement, the Cotonou Agreement, in order to provide more information and create greater awareness of the ACP-EU Partnership, encourage partnership and build links between ACP and EU actors, strengthen networking and exchange of expertise and experience among the ACP-EU actors; . according to the Cotonou Agreement articles 4-7: active involvement of ACP civil society as actors of the ACP-EU cooperation, programming and funding, to be provided with financial resources in order to support local development processes and be involved in the implementation of cooperation project and programmes in areas that concern them or where these act (...)
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Banking and financial services
  • Borders and security
  • Budget
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Communication
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Culture
  • Culture and media
  • Customs
  • Digital economy and society
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Education and training
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Energy
  • Enlargement
  • Environment
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • External relations
  • Food safety
  • Foreign affairs and security policy
  • Fraud prevention
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • Institutional affairs
  • International co-operation and development
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Maritime affairs and fisheries
  • Migration and asylum
  • Public health
  • Regional policy
  • Research and innovation
  • Single market
  • Sport
  • Taxation
  • Trade
  • Trans-European Networks
  • Transport
  • Youth
Levels of Interest:
  • national
  • sub-national
  • european
  • global

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: OACPS-EU cooperation, Samoa Agreement, Cotonou agreement, Revised Georgetown Agreement, Intra ACP Cooperation, social-economic issues, trade, Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA), WTO issues, development, climate change, environment, agriculture, fisheries, food security, energy, infrastructure, transport, industries, Human Rights, and Peace Building.
Communication Activities: Participation 7th Cariforum EU Consultative Committee meeting in Brussels on 28 November 2023 and 6th Cariforum-EU Consultative Committee meeting in Barbados on 4th of May 2022. as Member of the Cariforum-EU Consultative Committee. Participation webinars Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanisms. Online meetings with ACP-EU-JPA-EP-Secretariat, European Parliament Africa, Caribbean and Pacific unit, on the Draft Rules of Procedure for the Joint Parliamentary Assembly and the three OACPS Regional Parliamentary Assemblies under the Post-Cotonou Agreement. Update on the signing of the OACPS EU Agreement. Partipation in “The role of open trade in an increasingly uncertain world" civil society meeting in Prague, Czech Republic on Monday, 31 October 2022, meeting with Civil Society in the context of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union. ACP Civil Society Forum was consulted by OECD who has been asked by the European Commission to support conceiving and developing a methodology and an instrument for structured stakeholder engagement in the EU-OACPS Partnership Post-Cotonou Agreement, participated in several meetings with OECD and gave feedback and comments on the OECD Draft Recommendations. Participation second annual "ClimSA’22 Forum: Advancing Climate Services and Related Applications through Decision Support System Tools", the European Union-funded Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related Applications Programme (ClimSA)'22 Forum hosted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme - SPREP in Apia, Samoa and the government of Samoa and SPREP, in a hybrid format, in Apia, Samoa, and virtually on 26, 27, 28 and 29 September 2022. Participation Unctad meeting Looking to the future: Getting the economy back on track and addressing the most pressing challenges, Geneva 20 October 2022. Participation OACPS online meetings and EU Trade online meetings. Member of the CARIFORUM EU Consultative Committee established by the CARIFORUM EU Economic Partnership Agreement. Participation 40th Plenary Session of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly JPA, 24 June 2021 remotely via SPINELLI 3E2, Brussels on the functioning of the ACP-EU JPA and the new Regional Parliamentary Assemblies established by the new OACPS-EU Agreement. Contribution to the EU Survey Informal Consultation on the future Role of the JPA and Regional Assemblies in the ACP-EU Cooperation Post Cotonou Agreement on 19 November 2021. Participation as Key speaker at the digital Launch of CONCORD Insider's Guide to the Post-Cotonou Agreement on 8 July 2021 with SLOGA, the Slovene National Platform for Non-Governmental Organisations for Development, Global Education and Humanitarian Aid, the EU Slovenia Presidency Project. ACP Civil Society Forum participated at the ACP-EU JPA Women's Forum held virtually on Thursday 16 September 2021 from 13:00 to 15:00. On 8 February 2022 participated at the European Commission Virtual stakeholder meeting on the establishment of a multilateral investment court. Participation EU Trade Civil Society Dialogue Trade Meetings as DG Trade civil society organisation member. Participation in ACP – EU policy meetings and keeping the members informed on relevant ACP-EU activities through the online network. Communication on regional policies on trade, development and poverty alleviation from a civil society perspective capitalizing on civil society expertise, with ACP CSF providing inputs and facilitating sharing of expertise. Final Report of the Study on the ACP Civil Society Forum, Framework Contract BENEF 2009, Lot 7- Governance and Home Affairs, EuropeAid /127054/C/SER/Multi, Specific Contract n°2012/310569, FINAL REPORT – August 2013, Project financed by European Union. http://acpcsforum.igloocommunities.com/
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Green new deal,Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development

Head Office

Address: Kleine Wouwer 50 / 10
Post Code: 1860
City: MEISE
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office

Address: Kleine Wouwer 50 / 10
Post Code: 1860
City: MEISE
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: ACP Civil Society Forum established in July 2001 by the ACP Secretariat and European Commission has never received funding and has no budget. Three ACP Civil Society Forum meetings were organized in Brussels by the ACP Secretariat and the European Commission in 2001, 2006 and 2009.

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 3
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 3
Members F T E: 0.30000001192092896
Info Members: ACP CSF Brussels Representative/Legal Advisor Ms.Joyce NAAR is engaged in ACP CSF activities in Brussels and EU. ACP CSF Chairman, Bureau Members and 79 ACP CSF organizations and their networks are engaged in ACP CSF activities in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific. Ms. Marcia Brandon Bango Barbados holds the ACP Civil Society Forum Secretariat.

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: http://acpcsforum.igloocommunities.com/ Africa - Angola - Forum das organizações Não Governementais Angolanas (FONGA) - Benin - Groupe de Recherche et d’Action pour la Promotion de l’Agriculture et du Développement (GRAPAD) 10 - Botswana - Botswana Council of Non Governmental Organisations (Bocongo) - Burkina Faso - Civil Society Organization Network for Development (RESOCIDE) - Burundi - Civil Society Platform Action Développement et Intégration Régionale (ADIR) - Cameroun - Collectif des ONG agréées du Cameroun (CONGAC) - Cape Verde - Associação Comercial Agricola Industrial e de Serviços de Santiago (ACAISA) - Central African Republic - Conseil Inter ONG en Centrafrique (CIONGCA) - Côte d’Ivoire - Alliance pour la Reconstruction et le Développement Post Conflit (ARDPC) - Djibouti - Association des formateurs en renforcement des capacités (AFRC) - Ethiopia - Poverty Action Network in Ethiopia (PANE) - Gabon - Concertation Nationale des Organisations Paysannes et Producteurs du Gabon (CNOP-Gabon) - Ghana - General Agricultural Workers’ Union of Trade Unions Congress (GAWU) - Guinée-Bissau - Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP) - Guinea Conakry - FEFA Guinée - Kenya - National Council of NGO’s - Lesotho - Lesotho Council of Non-Governmental Organisations (LCN) - Liberia - Renaissance of West Africa Women Association - Madagascar - Plate-forme Nationale des Organisations de la société civile de Madagascar (FNOSCM) - Malawi - Malawi Economic Justice Network (MEJN) - Mauritius - Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS) - Mozambique - TEIA-National Forum for Mozambican NGOs & CBOs - Namibia - Namibia Non-Governmental Organisation's Forum Trust (NANGOF Trust) - Niger - Réseau des ONG de Développement et Associations de Défense des Droits de l’Homme et de la Démocratie (RODADDHD) - Nigeria - National Association of Nigeria Traders (NANTS) - RD Congo - Conseil National des Organisations Non Gouvernementales de Développement (CNONGD) - République de Congo Brazzaville - Conseil de Concertation des ONGs de Développement (CCOD) - République du Tchad - Centre d’Information et de Liaison des ONG (CILONG) - Rwanda - Rwanda Civil Society Platform (RCSP) - São Tomé and Principe - Federação de Organizações Não Governamentais em São Tomé e Príncipe (FONG-STP) - Sénégal - Plate-Forme des Acteurs Non Etatiques pour le suivi de l'Accord de Cotonou au Sénégal (PF-ANE) 76 - Seychelles - Liaison-Unit of Non-Governmental Organisations of Seychelles (LUNGOS) - Sierra Leone - Civil Society Movement Sierra Leone (CSMSL) - South Africa - South African National NGO Coalition (SANGOCO) - Swaziland - Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental Organizations (CANGO) - Tanzania - Tanzania Association of NGOs (TANGO) - The Gambia - Worldview The Gambia (WTG) - Togo - Groupe d´Action et de Réflexion sur l´Environnement et le Développement (GARED) - Uganda - Eastern African Sub-regional Support Initiative for the Advancement of Women (EASSI) - Zambia - Zambia Council for Social Development (ZCSD) - Zimbabwe - Factsheet for National Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (NANGO) - West African Women Association (AFAO/WAWA) Caribbean - Antigua and Barbuda - Gilbert Agricultural & Rural Development Center (GARDC) - Bahamas - Civil Society Bahamas - Barbados - Barbados Association of Non Governmental Organizations (BANGO) - Belize - Belize Enterprise for Sustainable Technology (BEST) - Cuba - Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País - Dominica - Kalinago Carib Council - Dominican Republic - Alianza NGO - Grenada - Inter-Agency Group of Development Organisation (IAGDO) - Guyana - Women Across Differences (WAD) - Haïti - Plateforme Haïtienne de Plaidoyer pour un Développement Alternatif (PAPDA) - Jamaica - Association of Development Agencies - St. Kitts and Nevis - St Kitts Saint Christopher Heritage Association - St. Lucia - Iyanola Council for the Advancement of Rastafari (ICAR) - St. Vincent and The Grenadines - Windward Islands Farmers’ Association (WINFA) - Suriname - NGO Netwerk Suriname - Trinidad and Tobago - The Centre for Grassroots Organizations of Trinidad and Tobago Pacific - Cook Islands - Cook Islands Association of Non-Government Organisations (CIANGO) - Fiji - Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) - Kiribati - Kiribati Association of Non-Governmental Organisation (KANGO) - Marshall Islands - Marshall Islands Council of NGOs (MICNGOS) - Micronesia - FSM Alliance of NGOs (FANGO) - Nauru - Nauru Island Association of NGOs (NIANGO) - Niue - Niue Island (Umbrella) Association of NGOs (NIUANGO) - Papua New Guinea - Melanesian NGO Centre for Leadership (MNCL) - Samoa - Samoa Umbrella for Non-Governmental Organisations (SUNGO) - Solomon Islands - Development Service Exchange (DSE) - Timor-Leste - The Asia Foundation - Tonga - Civil Society Forum of Tonga (CSFT) - Tuvalu - Tuvalu Association of NGOs (TANGO) - Vanuatu - Vanuatu Human Rights Coalition
Organisation Members: ACP CSF has 80 member organizations (CSOs/NGOs/networks)in 80 ACP Countries. They are participating in regional and international networks, such as AU ECOSOCC SADC Civil Society International Council for Social Welfare (ICSW) ECOWAS Caribbean Non State Actors Panels CDPC www.cpdcngo.org Caribbean Civil Society Network for Aid Effectiveness Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action www.CAFRA.org Pacific Regional NGOs (PRNGO) Alliance Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) www.pang.org.fj The Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (PIANGO) www.piango.org CIVICUS https://www.civicus.org China-African People's Forum http://www.trademarksa.org/news/nairobi-declaration-adopted-first-china-africa-people%E2%80%99s-forum International Forum of national plat-forms www.ong-ngo.org OWINFS, Our World is not For Sale.