2025-12-24

Young people are the internet’s largest user group, but are often the furthest away from internet governance forums. The Youth Voices for Digital Rights project convened fifteen young activists in a multiregional, multilingual space to learn, share, and co-create solutions to today’s digital challenges.

2025-09-04

A quick guide to help civil society understand the EU’s Global Gateway, its goals, and what it means in practice.

2025-08-06

Toolkit for implementing the DAC Recommendation on Enabling Civil Society in Development Co-operation and Humanitarian Assistance

2025-07-17

Discover 15+ powerful case studies from across five regions in the Forus network, showcasing how local communities are reshaping the path to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This groundbreaking report offers practical strategies to reorient SDG implementation from the ground up — prioritising inclusive, locally driven, and community-owned approaches.

2025-07-16

The Executive Summary of the "Unlocking the Power of Localisation and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Rescue the SDGs" report presenting over 15 powerful case studies from across five regions in the Forus network, showcasing how local communities are reshaping the path to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By centering local leadership and multi-stakeholder collaboration, the report highlights transformative pathways to rescue the SDGs and build more resilient, equitable societies.

2025-07-15

The Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (TANGO) is leading the development of a CSO Shadow Report to assess The Gambia’s progress in implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ahead of the United Nations 2025 Comprehensive Review. This independent report offers a civil society perspective on the country's SDG implementation journey, providing a complementary narrative to the government’s official reporting.

2025-07-15

Are Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) advancing the 2030 Agenda—or preserving the illusion of progress? As the world enters the final five-year stretch toward the SDG deadline, the time for rhetorical commitment has expired. This comprehensive review—anchored in eight years of civil society monitoring through the Progressing National SDGs Implementation series and reinforced by other published analyses—draws on findings from 366 VNRs submitted by 191 countries. It offers the most robust, independent assessment of the VNR mechanism to date.

2025-07-10

Since their inception in 2016, Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) have served as a key accountability tool for monitoring progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Designed as country-led and voluntary mechanisms, VNRs aim to peer learning, track national progress, and identify policy gaps, ensuring that governments remain accountable to their commitment to the Agenda 2030. In this report we assess both what has worked and what hasen't in these past 10 years with case studies from national platforms across the Forus network.

2025-06-20

The successful climate action requires a comprehensive understanding of MDBs' diverse financing roles along with their climate debt burdens plus their rights-based and climate justice policy inclusion. Financial resources require direction from MDBs to achieve climate change mitigation and adaptation goals. The institutions achieve both environmental sustainability and economic growth through their enhanced investments together with private sector capital and revolutionary financing instruments. The developing world receives technical assistance together with capacity-building programs that help them establish strong climate solutions.

2025-02-18

2025-02-17

2025-02-13

This presentation outlines the findings from the first organisationnal self-assessments conducted by Forus members in 2024. It provides insights into the strengths, competencies, and challenges faced by national civil society platforms across 24 countries.

2024-11-01

Case Studies of the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank

2024-07-05

2024-07-04

In 2015, the international community embarked on an ambitious journey with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, setting forth 17 SDGs to create a world that is just, peaceful, and prosperous. Central to this transformative agenda is SDG 16, which aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies, ensure access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels. In this report Forus members analyse the status of implementation of SDG 16 and share experiences for the way forward.

2024-06-24

2023-10-18

Developed with over 50 Forus members and partners, the multilingual Civil Society Manifesto for Ethical AI includes 17 case studies and was created with organisations from over 30 countries. Discover it during the official launch on December 6.

2023-10-09

Global trends and forces continue to work against peaceful, just and inclusive societies, with political will from governments fading and exclusion on the rise. The third SDG16+ Forum provided an opportunity for CSOs along with other stakeholders to come together to identify areas where amplified actions are needed on SDG16+.

2023-09-04

As the world’s Public Development Banks (PDBs) gather for the Finance in Common Summit in Cartagena, Colombia, over 100 civil society organizations, communities and human rights defenders from more than 50 countries have joined forces in calling on PDBs to move from words of good intent to concrete actions that center communities, with people - not profit - at their heart.

2023-07-06

Developed collaboratively with 14 national and regional CSO platforms, this report provides an analysis of the transformative potential of capacity-strengthening initiatives for civil society and a review of its representation in the 2022 Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs). With a focus on changing power dynamics, ensuring localization, and decolonizing practices, the report underscores the pivotal role that civil society organizations can play in delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) when appropriately supported.