NAYO and NANGO with support from EU Zimbabwe Engage CSOS on GPEDC 4th Monitoring

NAYO and NAGO with support from the European Union (EU Zimbabwe) Engage CSOs in Harare and Manicaland Provinces on the ongoing process for the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) 4th Monitoring Round. NAYO and NANGO are the CSO Country's Focal Points for Zimbabwe working with GPEDC and the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. NAYO also supports the effective participation of Civil Society in the country-level monitoring exercise and will be responsible for entering the data representing CSOs in Zimbabwe. The Global Partnership Monitoring is a group of governments seeking evidence sources to track progress and take action on stakeholders’ commitments and shared principles of effective development cooperation. The Final Declaration of the Global Partnerships 2022 Effective Development Summit in Geneva set a soft law recognizing the importance of CSOs in sustainable development. It also pledged to build “a positive environment for sustainable development” in the context of shrinking civic space. The monitoring exercise is going on among 54 countries that are collecting data on how civic space and enabling conditions are safeguarded through laws and regulations, and how CSOs are engaged through democratic country ownership of your country’s national development strategy. The monitoring round provides the official data for three SDG indicators namely: SDG 17.15 (Respect each country’s policy space and leadership); 17.16 (multi-stakeholder partnership for development), and 5. c (Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls). The monitoring exercise is country-led by the national government focal point (national coordinator)