PFD Closing event on EU programming with Commissioner Jutta Urpilainen

As you may know, since March 2020, the Policy Forum on Development (PFD) has moved to a virtual format. The Virtual PFD kicked off in April with a broad series of consultations that engaged over 360 organisations and focused on

• how PFD members can support the Commission agenda in the achievement of the SDGs in the global world
• the environment in which PFD members work and the obstacles they are faced with in the implementation of their activities 
• the multi-stakeholder partnerships used to implement development work
• as well as the initial impacts of COVID-19, and the successful contributions in the fighting back made by the PFD members.

The focus of the virtual PFD then turned towards the framework of EU programming, and continued with a set of regional meetings (Africa – Asia – Latin America, and Europe & the Neighborhood) whose results were presented during a global meeting co-chaired by Koen Doens, Director General for International Cooperation and Development (DEVCO) in September 2020. And finally, during the second half of October and early November, the PFD hosted a series of thematic webinars on "An economy that works for the people", Green Deal and Digitalisation to refine members’ input to the ongoing EC programming exercise.

The closing event of this entire process will take place on December 10^th from 14h to 15h CET and will be chaired by the Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, who will receive first-hand feedback from the membership of the PFD on the key recommendations for EU programming that have emerged along the process and will react to these recommendations, including how can the EU better broker and support the development of multi-stakeholder partnerships, such as the PFD itself.

All background information around this meeting is available on our dedicated event page.

The PFD Virtual process summarised in one graphic.