You can read the first PFD newsletter here! This edition includes: perspectives of the PFD Chairs; PFD updates and a topic focus; updates from the EU and news from PFD Members.
Does the PFD support you in understanding and explaining how the EU works to your constituents? If so, how? Normally, people think the EC has lots of power, and it is good to have a better idea of the limits of the Commission...
Does the PFD support you in understanding and explaining how the EU works to your constituents? If so, how? Yes, it does. Many times we look at places like the EU and UN and other international organizations as having powerful...
Jorge Balbis What do you hope to achieve via the PFD and why did you decide to get involved and even beyond, co-chair the PFD? We want to capitalize on the experiences of the Structured Dialogue (SD) - to enable the functioning of...
In the lead up to the regional PFD in Lima, Jacqueline Moustache-Belle and Jorge Balbis took some time to share their perspectives on the PFD. You can read excerpts from these interviews here! From the Interview with Jacqueline...
Few years ago people of a rural area of Anowara, a sub district of port city Chittagong, Bangladesh, sowed paddy plants in a road to protest the Government for not taking initiatives furnishing that road by bricks. The people...
On 2nd of June 2014 the Commission adopted its new Communication "A Decent Life for All: from Vision to collective Action" which describes key principles and proposes priority areas and potential targets for the years following...
I’m pleased to inform you about the adoption of the new Commission Communication on the private sector’s role in development : A Stronger Role of the Private Sector in Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Developing...
Please, visit the new online database with more than 400 international cooperative projects. ‘Cooperatives in development’ online platform is live On 15th May, ‘Cooperatives in development’ online platform was launched. The new...
Addressing members of the Forum, during the session on Post-2015, EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs, said that "for the EU to play an active role in the global debate on development post-2015, we need partners like...
