Challenges for Official Donors: INTRAC Conference – Whatever Happened to Civil Society Roy Trivedy Civil Society Department DFID December 2008

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA Outline  ‘Old chestnuts’  Global trends  Changing Landscape  New challenges and Opportunities 1

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA Key Challenges for Official Donors  Relevance  Results  Effective Public Communication 2

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA Global trends  Financial and Economic crisis  Food and fuel prices  Increasing global population and pressure on resources  Increasing urbanisation  Climate change and extremes weather events  Increasing numbers of people hooked on energy intensive consumer lifestyles  New models of global leadership 3

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA Changing Landscape for Development  Chronic poverty and the ‘Bottom Billion’  Fragile and conflict affected states  Largest numbers of poor will be in MICs/emerging economies  Increasing inequality within and between nations  Increasing pressure on resources  Climate change and energy insecurity

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA New opportunities and challenges  Promoting financial stability, sustainable low carbon growth paths and trade  Tackling climate change and energy security  Building effective international institutions (‘new multilateralism’)  Responding more effectively to the needs of fragile and conflict affected states  Harnessing innovation in technology and research  Improving gender equality

1 Palace Street, London SW1E 5HE Abercrombie House, Eaglesham Road, East Kilbride, Glasgow G75 8EA Working more effectively together  New alliances, partnerships and global leadership  Maintaining and building public support for development  How should donors and CSOs respond to these challenges?