Policy Forum on Development (PFD)

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This is a collection of initiatives and documents on how the members of the Policy Forum on Development are reacting to the COVID-19 crisis in 2020.

Summary document of an analysis done by the technical assistance team of the Policy Forum on Development, considering the various responses and reactions of the PFD members.

🔸EU Institutions

• A website gathering statements of different EU instutions and actors with DG DEVCO in the lead

🔸Civil Society Organisations

• CONCORD support resources during the COVID-19 outbreak
• FEMNET article: African Center for Disease Control and the African Union must offer dignified and inclusive focus on women & girls in COVID-19 response
• Online hub with critical and practical information and resources on COVID-19 in Africa from a gender and feminist perspective
• Key practical recommendations by African women and girls
• Asia Pacific Regional CSO Engagement Mechanism statement on COVID19
• Joint Statement of South Asian CSOs
• Summary of the situation in El Salvador provided by our member CECADE
• The newsletter of WINGS (Worldwide Initiatives for Grantmaker Support) on how their members from China and beyond have reacted to COVID-19
• A dedicated page of WINGS concerning their members resources in response to COVID-19
• Letter of the Voluntary Action Network India (VANI) to their members
• Fairtrade International in support of its member organisations (over 1700 producer cooperatives with 1.8million farmers/agricultural workers in 75 countries):
• Faitrade International COVID19 briefing 27 March
• Connected Community: Supporting each other through the COVID-19 crisis
• Fairtrade Africa COVID19 statement
• Fairtrade LAC (CLAC) COVID19 statement
• Flexibility in Fairtrade International standards measures
• New guidance from Fairtrade boosts action to protect farmers and workers during COVID-19 pandemic

🔸Cooperatives

• Cooperatives' response to COVID19

🔸Trade Union

• Article on how affiliates of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) are reacting to COVID-19

🔸Associations of Local Authorities

• Practices and reactions by the member cities of the Association Internationale des Maires Francophones (AIMF)
• PLATFORMA reaction to EU reponse on how to fight the pandemic

🔸Professional and Business Associations

• Joint Statement on COVID-19 by the International Employers' Organisation
• Dedicated page International Employers' Organisation

🔸Foundations

• Dedicated page of the European Foundation Centre on their members' responses to COVID-19
• Results of a survey by the European Foundation Centre on challenges and events resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak
• European Philanthropy Statement on COVID-19

🔸Additional documents:

• How to use a mask (FR)
• How to build your own mask (FR)
• Blog article by Carola Carrazzone, Italian association Assifero, Flexibility and freedom of foundation funding can boost third sector during Coronavirus crisis
• Messages from the Ford Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (members of WINGS) to their Grantees