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Locally led development won’t work without shifting real power Women's Fight Against Technology - Facilitated Gender-Based Violence FONGA: reorganising based on accumulated experience FONG-STP: listening to members to prepare a new phase Structural Support at Forus: rebuilding capacities, reconnecting members, and strengthening civil society platforms Forus Lança a sua Visão Pós-2030: O que a Sociedade Civil deve Defender, Exigir e Recusar The 3Ds for a Credible Post-2030 Development Agenda Data-Based Narrative: How Civil Society Is Reshaping the Case for ODA and Global Cooperation Forus Post-2030 Vision - Vision Post-2030 de Forus - Visión Post-2030 de Forus The 3Ds for a Credible Post-2030 Development Agenda 📅🌍Join the launch of the Forus Post-2030 Vision - May 21 Women of the Great Lakes: Essential Peacebuilders Still Excluded from Power BIG Conferences: Should We Show Up or Walk Away? An invitation to action - help shape the future of locally led development. From commitment to practice: join the call to action on locally led development Financer mieux, ensemble : au sommet FiCS, la coordination devient le vrai levier du développement From elections to constitutional reforms, how the enabling environment for civil society deteriorates at critical political moments around the world What to fund and what not to fund? 📰 🌍Launching the Post-2030 Vision and Advancing Civil Society Action | Forus Newsletter New interview series: ‘Civil society unpacks burning issues on emerging technologies’ The OECD meeting in Paris and UK Global Partnerships Conference show localisation is still rhetoric. Real reform requires donors to relinquish control over money, risk, and decisions. In the era of social media, digital spaces have become a platform for civic activism. Around the world, especially in Africa, the internet has become a communication tool. Women mobilise, advocate, and call for solidarity. Some defend human rights; others denounce gender-based violence, while others raise awareness about inequalities as they build communities that influence public debates. The Forum of Non-Governmental Organisations of Angola (FONGA) was one of the first platforms to begin this journey with Forus. The process began with bilateral conversations to understand the platform’s situation, review available information, and identify what type of support could be most useful. The Federation of NGOs of São Tomé and Príncipe, FONG-STP, has begun its own Structural Support journey in a different context. The platform maintained its activity, recognition, and an important history of work on issues such as citizenship, rights, public budget monitoring, participatory budgeting, human rights, and civil society representation. At the same time, it identified the need to strengthen its strategic leadership, improve communication with members, update institutional tools, and support member NGOs in project management and resource mobilization. Structural Support at Forus is not a reward for organisations that already have everything functioning. It is a solidarity-based response for platforms that continue to have legitimacy, history, and willingness to serve their members, but that need time, accompaniment, and practical resources to enter a new phase. A Plataforma Portuguesa das Organizações Não-Governamentais para o Desenvolvimento (ONGD) é uma associação privada sem fins lucrativos que pretende contribuir para melhorar e potenciar o trabalho das suas Associadas. Just four years of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development remain. What comes after 2030 is already a political battleground. As global Official Development Assistance faces its steepest cuts in decades, civil society is asking a hard question: how do you defend international solidarity in an era of misinformation and political backlash?" On 13 May 2026, Forus hosted an interactive session entitled Data-Based Narrative: Shaping ODA and Global Cooperation, bringing together members of civil society organisations (CSOs) from across the Forus network and beyond. The session created a dynamic space to explore how CSOs are leveraging data to strengthen communication, advocacy, and public engagement. What comes after 2030 is already being shaped. But important questions remain: who gets to shape it — and how? At Forus, we believe this conversation cannot happen without civil society — especially the communities and voices too often left out of global decision-making. That’s why our global civil society network is launching a collective Post-2030 Vision: an early contribution to the discussions shaping the future of international cooperation. Join the conversation and help shape what comes next. https://www.forus-international.org/en/campaigns?modal_page=campaign&modal_detail_id=forus-post-2030-vision #post2030 #civilsociety #agenda2030 #SDGs #development #globalcooperation #solidarity #whatwedemand Just four years of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development remain. In Africa’s Great Lakes region — where armed conflict continues in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and political fragility persists in Burundi — peace processes remain overwhelmingly male-dominated. Yet on the ground, women are often the ones sustaining communities, mediating tensions, and rebuilding social trust long after formal negotiations stall. It is no secret that many of the decisions shaping the lives of millions are made in air-conditioned boardrooms, around king-size, well-polished teakwood tables, in expansive complexes sitting on manicured compounds in leafy neighbourhoods far removed from the communities those decisions affect. The people making those decisions do so while sipping well-brewed espresso, nibbling on freshly baked croissants, and smoking well-rolled Habanos during their comfort breaks - never mind that millions are starving in Sudan, Gaza and other conflict-affected areas. They wear Louis Vuitton while the communities they claim to serve cannot afford second-hand clothing from the flea market. These are elite spaces. We should not pretend otherwise. Join the growing list of organisations signing on — and help shape the future of locally led development. The OECD Call to Action on Locally Led Development launched today at The Future of Development Co-operation Charting strategic directions Summit in Paris — and Forus is proud to be an early endorser, alongside Peace Direct, participating governments, foundations, and other civil society networks. Organisé à Paris le 29 avril 2026 dans le cadre de la présidence française du G7, le sommet Finance in Common (FiCS) a réuni les principaux acteurs du financement du développement. Banques multilatérales, banques publiques nationales et institutions financières ont partagé un même constat : face à des besoins croissants, l’enjeu n’est plus seulement de mobiliser des financements, mais de mieux coordonner les acteurs pour passer à l’échelle. In this article, we explore the data presented to EU SEE by our network across 86 countries to make these emerging trends salient. These restrictions take three broad forms: direct harassment, surveillance and violence against civil society actors; digital interference including internet and social media shutdowns; and administrative and bureaucratic interventions that exclude civic voices from institutional processes. Together, they reveal a pattern in which political transitions — far from opening space for participation — are increasingly used as opportunities to consolidate control. For the second year in a row, aid and development financial support levels have fallen, with 2025 marking the biggest drop. Governments across Europe and beyond are tightening their budgets, often citing inflation, debt pressures, and shifting political priorities. Yet for NGOs and community partners, the consequences are immediate, structural, and in many cases, irreversible. Explore civil society voices, Forus strategic priorities, and collective action From artificial intelligence to digital infrastructure, digital developments raise critical questions about human rights, environmental sustainability, democratic governance, and digital inclusion. To contribute to these conversations, Forus is launching a new interview series under the Civil Society Alliances for Digital Empowerment (CADE) project co-funded by the European Union, highlighting diverse perspectives on some of the burning topics in digital governance and rights.