CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE NETWORK EVENT – Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace: Annual Action Programme 2018 and Multiannual Indicative Programme 2018-2020

Brussels Brussels

The purpose of the meeting, which is being organised in the framework of the Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN), with the support of the European External Action Service (EEAS), and the European Commission (Service for Foreign Policy Instruments and Directorate-General for International Cooperation and Development) (EC), is to gather input from representatives of civil society […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – Exchange of Views: Children affected by the Syria Crisis

European Parliament rue Wiertz 60, Brussels

On the occasion of Universal Children's Day, the European Parliament (EP) Delegation to Mashreq Countries (DMAS), jointly with the EP Delegation to Palestine (DPAL) and civil society organisations, including World Vision International, is organising an Exchange of Views (EoV) on the situation of children affected by the Syria Crisis on Monday 20 November at the […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – Roundtable ‘Gender-Based Mass Atrocity Prevention’

Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary Ráday u. 28, Budapest

The Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocities Prevention, in co-operation with the European Centre for the Responsibility To Protect and the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, is organising a roundtable on 'Gender-Based Mass Atrocity Prevention' as a pre-event of the 10th Budapest Human Rights Forum. Until recently the human rights of women, […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – Sanctuary Everywhere

Chant d'Oiseau Centre Avenue des Franciscains 3A, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre

The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) and Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) are holding a joint conference on 2 December in Brussels. Sanctuary Everywhere will explore what can be done to build a Europe which is safe and welcoming for everyone, including refugees and LGBTQI+ people. If you would like to participate in […]

OTHER EVENT – Preventing deadlocked or violent elections: lessons from Kenya

Quaker House Square Ambiorix 50, Brussels

Efforts by the international community to prevent election violence have evolved over the last few years. There is broad recognition today that prevention mechanisms need to address root causes of violence through a more coherent approach. Quaker organisations such as the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) have contributed to reducing post-election violence in Kenya by […]

EPLO MEMBER ORGANISATION EVENT – M&E Thursday Talk – Critical Friends: Using external actors to catalyze reflection

'Critical Friends: Using external actors to catalyze reflection' is part of a webinar series which DME for Peace are hosting. DME for Peace is a global community of practitioners, evaluators, donors, and academics who share best and emerging practices on how to design, monitor, and evaluate peacebuilding programs. Through greater collaboration and transparency we hope […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – EPLO Brown Bag Lunch with the Crisis Management Initiative – Experiences with the Critical Friend method for Monitoring & Evaluation

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

For those of us working on peace, development and security, M&E is ultimately a way for organisations and funders to ensure that our engagements in already complicated, fragile and high-risk contexts are as effective as possible and avoid doing harm. The Critical Friend method emerged to respond to the limitations of traditional evaluations on effectiveness […]

CIVIL SOCIETY DIALOGUE NETWORK – Strategic review of EUMM Georgia: Roundtable on Civil Society Perspectives

Tbilisi

The European External Action Service (EEAS), based in Brussels, will shortly carry out a strategic review of the European Union Monitoring Mission in Georgia (EUMM Georgia) as the current mandate of the Mission runs until 14 December 2018. The Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN) has been hosting a series of meetings enabling civil society to […]

OTHER EVENT – Better learning for better results: Guiding steps for the design, monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding programming

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

How can the peacebuilding field tackle the unique challenges of peacebuilding evaluation and learning? The Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium (PEC), the Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and EPLO invite you to a lunchtime roundtable meeting to present and discuss the PEC’s draft Guiding Steps for Peacebuilding. The document aims to help organisations to enhance how they conduct […]

EPLO BROWN BAG LUNCH EVENT – Peace and Stability Strategies for the Private Sector in Afghanistan

EPLO office Hive5 Saint-Michel, Cours Saint-Michel 30B, Brussels

In the Joint Communication ‘Elements for an EU Strategy on Afghanistan’ published in July 2017, the European Commission and the European External Action Service emphasised the need to support economic development and regional connectivity (i.e. improving transit, transport and energy corridors). The Afghan government has been stressing the need for investment in the construction, transport […]