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From 29 November till 1 December 300 representatives of Civil society organisations of the world, participated in het Busan High level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. PSO director Margo Kooijman did represent Dutch NGO's in Busan.
November 1th 2011 - On 27 October 2011, PSO’s General Assembly of Members decided to liquidate the Association as of 1 January 2013 (or later if required for the liquidation). This was not an easy decision, according to Ludy Geut, Chairman of the Board.
‘It is the season of accountability…but over the past few years, almost every organisation or project I have visited is stressed with issues of monitoring and evaluation, anxiously shopping around for methodologies to measure and report on impact to satisfy donors. Adverts for M&E specialists abound as donors seek to further outsource this function to experts, robbing organisations of rich learning processes to which M&E should contribute.’ Reeler, 2007.
October 13, 2011 – Marnix van Rij has left the Board of Governors of PSO after four years as chairman. Ludy Geut, who has been vice chairman since 2007, has been chosen as Marnix van Rij’s successor at the Annual General Meeting on Oktober 13th 2011.
October 14, 2011 - As part of the efforts to build up a more reciprocal peer relationship with EASUN in Tanzania, Cristien Temmink and Rob van Poelje of PSO visited EASUN in September. Over the past years the two organisations have worked together in various learning activities. As of last summer, they are both part of the Crossroads Initiative that promotes the reconnection of civil society actors to the civic movements and to citizen initiatives that constitute the engine of social change in many societies. PSO's Learning for Change consultant Rob van de Poelje reports...
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