TRIALOG IV: Strengthening Civil Society for Development Cooperation in the enlarged EU

TRIALOG IV: Strengthening Civil Society for Development Cooperation in the enlarged EU.

The main objectives of this call for proposal is to support actions aimed at achieving more efficient cooperation, foster synergies and facilitate a structured dialogue in the area of development between Non State Actors and Local Authorities (or associations of Local Authorities) from the EU and acceding countries1, within their organizations and with Community institutions.

The programme intends in particular to support activities aiming at:

- strengthening Non State Actors (NSA) and Local Authority (LA) networks and platforms, including their capacity to build trans-national alliances and to disseminate best practices in the area of development;
- increasing the number of multi-actor partnerships and consolidating exchanges between different types of NSA and LA networks, within their organisations and with Community institutions;

- strengthening the capacity of NSA and LA platforms in the new Member States (12)2 in order to play an active role in their countries and at the EU level, including ensuring smooth integration of EU development policies.

1 The Strategy Paper 2007 – 2010 for the programme “Non-State-Actors and Local Authorities in Development” foresees for this component also actions in acceding countries. However, at this stage none of the accession candidate countries has signed an Accession Treaty and it is therefore not possible to foresee Actions in these countries in the framework of the present Call for Proposals.

2 Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Rumania, Slovakia, Slovenia