Publications
2024
- From vision to reality: Implementation and institutionalisation of a feminist foreign and development policy in Germany
- International health financing must be based on solidarity
- Good intentions are not good enough: How we apply the principle of Do No Harm to transform our good intentions into good projects
2023
- Shifting Power: How development and humanitarian NGOs can address the consequences of colonialism in their work
- 2030 SDG Summit - The time to act is now
- On the right path? The significance of the G7 in global crises and the involvement of global civil society
- Enhancing African-European Cooperation on Migration – Seven Actions for Civil Society Organisations (also available in French)
- More bindingness for people with disabilities: civil society expectations for the Global Disability Summit 2025
2022
- War in Ukraine: What can be an appropriate response to the humanitarian catastrophe in the middle of Europe?
- Measures for Greater European Responsibility in Migration Policies towards Africa
- Civil7 Communiqué 2022: Progress towards an equitable world – must be more than a promise!
- G7 Summit in Elmau: Little progress towards an equitable world
- Expectations of a feminist development policy
- Quality criteria for development education: Practical handbook
- VENRO strategy 2023-2028: Our contribution to a globally just socio-ecological transformation
2021
- Confronting the climate crisis – consistent and ambitious action now
- Five years Grand Bargain: When will the humanitarian aid system change?
- VENRO Report: OECD DAC Peer Review 2021
- “We want fair, inclusive and mutually beneficial relations”: Results of the Africa-Europe Civil Society Survey
- How to turn good intentions into effective projects: Handbook for the implementation of the VENRO guidelines for development projects and programmes
- Out of the shadows – strengthening international humanitarian law and protecting humanitarian aid workers worldwide
2020
- Preventing terrorist financing in the NPO sector: Measures to mitigate the risk of terrorist financing in the NPO sector in Germany
- Requirements for effective Multi-stakeholder initiatives to strengthen corporate due diligence: Recommendations from the perspective of civil society
- Practical Handbook: Humanitarian assistance from a distance - recommendations for remote programming
- For a fair partnership between Africa and Europe: Civil society recommendations for Germany's 2020 EU Council presidency
- From Impact Monitoring to Impact Orientation: For effective development and humanitarian aid
- Education is the key to a sustainable future: Civil Society Statement to the UNESCO-Roadmap „ESD for 2030“
2019
- Manual for Inclusive Development Projects
- Protection from sexualized violence and exploitation in international development and humanitarian aid
- Tech for Good:The possibilities and limits of using digital instruments in international development projects of non-governmental organisations
- VENRO Guidelines for Development Projects and Programmes
2018
- G20 Compact with Africa
- Key points for implementation by German humanitarian stakeholders
- Unlocking the Potential of the Global Compact for Migration – Realising Human Rights, Development and Participation
- Making follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda effective and inclusive – strengthening the High-Level Political Forum of the United Nations
- Requirements for a new partnership agreement between the EU and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
- That’s how sustainability works!
- Ethics in Fundraising Videos
- Good intentions are not good enough
2017
- The Urgent Need for Better International Cooperation: Conclusion of the Civil20 Summit
- Shrinking Space for Civil Society: What Can Civil Society Do to Combat This?
- A Look Back: Civil20 Germany 2017
- More political, more flexible, more crisis-resistant
- Champions to be? Making the 2030 Agenda a reality (2017)
- Gender equality as a key to development
- Adopting a rights-based and development-oriented approach to migration
- Overcoming hunger and promoting rural development – A paradigm shift is required
- Instead of turning inward, let's work together to build a more just and sustainable Europe
- More justice in international financial and tax policy
- G20 Engagement Groups: Statement for Open and Inclusive Societies
- More sustainability instead of "cherry picking"
- The G20 and Global Health
- VENRO Strategy 2017-2022
2016
- Civil society threatened all over the world
- A Greater Commitment to Effectiveness
- No courage to commit
- Leaving no one behind in Global Health – What should Germany’s contribution be?
- Hoping for Hamburg – German presidency needs to put the G20 on the track of sustainable development
- G20 and Global Health
- Champions to be? Making the 2030 Agenda a reality (2016)
- Germany and the UN sustainability agenda 2016 - A long way from sustainable
- „We all must act now!“
Earlier
- DAC Peer Review of Germany 2015
- A New Policy for Global Justice
- From Addis Abeba to New York - Financing Sustainable Development after 2015
- G20 - a contribution to global sustainable policy?
- Policy paper-Post 2015 Development Agenda
- Statement Health in the Post-2015 Agenda
- Accessible & Affordable & Achievable Health in the Post-2015 Agenda (engl.)
- Eight Key Issues for a Post-2015 Global Development and Sustainability Agenda
- Berlin Declaration - Transformative Education for Sustainable Development