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Civil Society and Governance

Working towards a world where citizens keep an active eye on governments’ progress, check if policies make a difference, and regularly give feedback to their governments which is taken seriously

Back the bill - CAFOD's submission to the International Development Committee (682.00 kB)

The UK is tantalisingly close to delivering on a promise it first made forty years ago - to spend 0.7% of national income on aid. CAFOD urges all parties to back the legislation currently before parliament, and strengthen its accountability...

Cash on Delivery Aid - A CAFOD Briefing (162.11 kB)

Instead of donors giving money to developing countries to fund aid programmes, "Cash on Delivery" proposes to reward developing countries once they have achieved specific results. CAFOD weighs up the risks and opportunities...

Research Policy Networks in Ethiopia: Agents of Change? (221.91 kB)

This paper is the synthesis of case studies of four Ethiopian civil society networks; the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat, the Ethiopian Interfaith Forum for Development, Dialogue, and Action, the Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations and the Poverty Action Network Ethiopia. The networks used the Network Functions Approach developed by the Overseas Development Institute to analyse each other through a peer review process and draw conclusions about their roles, form and functions.

Monitoring government policies (1.57 MB)

This toolkit explores ways of working for change by monitoring government policies. It aims to help foster a conversation in society on the policies we choose and how well they work En francais >> Em português >>

These papers are no longer available online, but copies may be sent out if you email policy@cafod.org.uk requesting the title as listed here

A Participatory Approach`to Partnerships for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
A CAFOD Background Paper. Africa is at the forefront of the 2002 G8 Summit agenda. African governments have collectively attempted to rebalance the development agenda for Africa around a new framework of more equal international partnerships for development
(May 2002)

Summary of CAFOD's e-consultation on NEPAD
All participants welcomed NEPAD as a "well intentioned" African initiative. But all saw it as having been weakened at the outset by African governments' exclusion of inputs from African civil society.

Memo to the International Select Committee On Development,
the Annual Meetings Of The World Bank, and the IMF
This year's Annual Meetings considered the IMF and World Bank paper – Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative: Status of Implementation – detailing the progress of the enhanced HIPC Initiative and its performance against the policy framework's central objective of delivering a “robust exit from the burden of unsustainable debts”
(October 2002)