Fri 4 Jul 2025

Where's the Support for Gender Equality? Women Ask at the Global Forum

Where's the Support for Gender Equality? Women Ask at the Global Forum - PassBlue

Fri 4 Jul 2025

Blistering heat and empty chairs mar UN's flagship development event

Brutal heat scorched Spain this week, a blistering reminder of the climate change that is battering the world's poorest countries - stretching their finances even as government debt climbs to new heights.

Fri 4 Jul 2025

Civil society leaves UN development summit feeling unheard

When over 1,000 civil society representatives flocked to Seville this week for a U.N. conference on development financing their expectations were already low, but the four-day event left many frustrated and feeling their voices were stifled.

Fri 4 Jul 2025

La cumbre de la ONU cierra con un acuerdo descafeinado que no convence a la sociedad civil: "Es decepcionante"

La cumbre de la ONU cierra con un acuerdo descafeinado que no convence a la sociedad civil: "Es decepcionante"

Fri 4 Jul 2025

La retirada de EE.UU. de la ayuda internacional, un golpe para el desarrollo global: "Tiene un efecto devastador"

La retirada de EE.UU. de la ayuda internacional, un golpe para el desarrollo global: "Tiene un efecto devastador"

Fri 20 Jun 2025

Financing for development conference: “What we need are bold commitments”

Forus, a leading global network of national NGO platforms and regional civil society coalitions representing over 24,000 NGOs, will bring a 30+-member delegation from 20 countries to the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4), held in Seville from 30 June to 3 July 2025.

Fri 20 Jun 2025

EU SEE - Resources - Shedding light on critical trends in the enabling environment for civil society.

EU SEE is a consortium of international civil society organisations and network members in 86 countries. The partnership implements an Early Warning and Monitoring Mechanism to document changes and shed light on critical trends in the enabling environment for civil society.

Fri 4 Jul 2025

The Guardian view on Trump’s aid cuts and development: the global majority deserve justice, not charity | Editorial

Editorial: Funding is plummeting as needs grow, with the closure of USAID, the slashing of UK and European aid budgets, and the obstruction of debt reform and cancellation

Fri 4 Jul 2025

UK accused of hypocrisy at landmark UN foreign aid conference

Experts at the fourth Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) say the UK cannot talk up its role in helping developing nations while cutting aid commitments

Thu 19 Jun 2025

Seville: fair financing for a future of hope

INDICO 2025 provides a global snapshot of countries' actions, both within and beyond their borders.

Thu 19 Jun 2025

Sevilla: financiación justa para un futuro de esperanza - La Coordinadora de Organizaciones para el Desarrollo

El informe INDICO 2025 exige financiación justa y coherente para garantizar derechos humanos y transiciones sostenibles a nivel global.

Fri 20 Jun 2025

Civil Society Manifesto for Global Justice - Manifesto da Sociedade Civil pela Justiça Global

Tue 17 Jun 2025

🌎From #FFD4 to HLPF2025: civil society steps up for global justice

📰 Welcome to the latest Forus newsletter — your gateway to the bold, collective action of our global civil society network!

Tue 6 May 2025

Standing firm in front of rising restrictions on activism

Civil society organizations (CSOs) around the world are at a breaking point. The pace and intensity of restrictions on their environment are accelerating.

Mon 5 May 2025

Rethinking power in aid and turning the system upside down

At a time when traditional aid pipelines are freezing and funding is becoming increasingly scarce, something else is happening as well: civil society around the world is reclaiming its power, reframing the narrative, and challenging models of aid. As part of the EU SEE consortium, Forus is developing a new podcast series Frozen Funds, Unfrozen Purpose. For this article, we sat down with Deborah Doane—Partner at Rights CoLab and convener of the RINGO Project—to unpack how to transform the donor landscape for justice.

Wed 19 Mar 2025

New Survey: US Funding Freeze Triggers Global Crisis in Human Rights and Democracy

A new survey carried out by the EU System for an Enabling Environment (EU SEE) network exposes the impact of the US funding freeze on civil society organisations (CSOs) in over 50 countries. With 67% of surveyed organisations directly impacted and 40% of them losing between 25-50% of their budgets, the abrupt halt in funding is disrupting critical human rights, democracy, gender equality and health programs, leaving vulnerable communities without essential support.

Mon 17 Mar 2025

Reforming Global Financial Architecture: A Call for People-Centered Development

As the world faces multiple interconnected crises—ranging from growing debt burdens and declining multilateralism to the deepening climate crisis and shrinking civic space—the need for a new approach to global development finance has never been more urgent. At the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS 2025) in South Africa, I had the privilege of delivering a message from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs): “True development must prioritize the dignity, rights, and well-being of communities, particularly those most affected by these crises.”

Tue 25 Feb 2025

Civil Society at the Finance in Common Summit Calls for Community-led, Equitable, and Human Rights-based Development

Since its first edition in 2020, civil society has been playing a critical role at FiCS in ensuring public development banks are accountable to the people they serve, and in amplifying the voices – too often ignored – of communities in the Global South who are most directly affected by development projects.

Statement on recent trends in Official Development Assistance (ODA) budgets

Redefining and Enhancing the Quality of Official Development Assistance –ODA- for Sustainable Development

Public Development Banks Can’t Drag Their Feet When It Comes to Building a Sustainable Future

Can public development banks muster a 'movement'?

“Transparency, Inclusiveness and Sustainability”: 3 things Public Development Banks must not forget about at this year’s Finance in Common Summit.

Development banks must put their money where our future lies

From Paraguay to Italy: Development at All Costs

Community voices: interview with Paubert Tsimanaoraty and Elisa Razafiniarivo

Voix de la communauté : entretien avec Jacques Ngarassal Saham, militant anti-corruption au Tchad

Carte blanche: «Les banques publiques de développement doivent mettre leur argent là où se trouve notre avenir»

Les banques publiques de développement doivent agir en faveur du monde que nous voulons.  - Coordination SUD

A Future in Common: Public development banks must put people and planet first