Partner Organizations
DEMAS (Association for Democracy Assistance and Human Rights), is an
independent platform of Czech non-governmental organisations (NGOs), was
established in 2008. The founding membership comprises 11 NGOs that
have over many years demonstrated their commitment to the support of
democracy assistance, human rights and civil society in the Czech
Republic and abroad.
In a world where countries and regions must cooperate to address urgent
problems – climate change, conflict, food security, health and education
– the European Centre for Development Policy Management, ECDPM helps countries in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)
build effective partnerships that will tackle these and other
development challenges. Economic and political North-South relations are
usually biased towards the most powerful. The ECDPM therefore want to reduce
the ‘asymmetries’ in policy making between the EU and ACP countries. By
making the EU-ACP partnership more balanced and effective the ECDPM stimulates
developing countries to unleash their full potential. THe ECDPM provides support
to key development processes in developing regions and countries in a
long term perspective. By doing so the ECDPM assists the ACP in strengthening
their institutions and capacities to develop policies and strategies
that shape their own futures and provide pathways out of poverty.
FRIDE is a think tank based in Madrid that aims to provide the best and most
innovative thinking on Europe’s role in the international arena. It
strives to break new ground in its core research interests of peace and
security, human rights, democracy promotion, and development and
humanitarian aid, and mould debate in governmental and non-governmental
bodies through rigorous analysis, rooted in the values of justice,
equality and democracy. FRIDE seeks to provide fresh and innovative
thinking on Europe’s role on the international stage. As a prominent
European think tank, FRIDE benefits from political independence,
diversity of views and the intellectual background of its international
staff.
PASOS, the Policy Association for an Open Society,
promotes and protects open society values, including democracy, the
rule of law, good governance, respect for and protection of human
rights, and economic and social development, by supporting entities that
individually and jointly foster public participation in public policy
issues at the European Union level, in other European structures, and in
the wider neighbourhood of Europe and Central Asia.