In the international cooperation landscape, international solidarity NGOs are actors that complement the actions implemented in the framework of public cooperation. NGOs fulfil a diversity of roles that institutional and private actors cannot.

Their specificities reside in the implementation of local cooperation, their speed of intervention, and their capacity to innovate that allows them to adjust their interventions and adapt them to changing contexts. This capacity for innovation is acknowledged and used by all donors and operators.

These specificities and their added value, which contribute to aid effectiveness, lead them, as non-governmental actors, to demand that the government authorities respect a “right to initiative,” the proclaimed basis for the partnership between NGOs and the government authorities.

Coordination SUD’s Monitoring of Partnerships

Coordination SUD develops proposals to strengthen the operational and financial partnership between NGOs and the government authorities on three complementary levels:

• in its dialogue with the State, via the various consultation bodies with the ministries and institutions concerned;
• in its European dialogue, through CONCORD, the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development; and
• in its dialogue with the French associative movement as a whole, through the Conférence Permanente des Coordinations Associatives (CPCA).