CAFOD, one of the UK’s leading international aid agencies and CIDSE Member Organisation, is currently looking for an ambitious institutional funding specialist to grow and diversify our donor funding base through spearheading our programme development and funding strategy.
On the rooftops around St Peter’s Square, the world’s television media built makeshift studios with powerful camera lenses fixed onto a simple red copper chimney stack. In the Square itself I joined Catholics from all over the world chatting and making friends, sharing coffee and pizza and umbrellas. Twice we looked up in anticipation, only to see black smoke swirling from the chimney, a sight greeted with disappointed sighs from both the pilgrims and the seasoned Vatican watchers.
CIDSE, an international alliance of Catholic development agencies, greeted the news of the first pope from South America, and thus from the Global South. Pope Francis, previously Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ, Cardinal and Archbishop of Buenos Aires will serve as head of the Catholic Church.
CIDSE issues a new briefing for partners to equip local communities to stand up for their rights when facing human rights violations by business (version française ci-dessous - versión española abajo).
Il faut exiger des banques qu'elles publient leurs bénéfices et leurs impôts par pays, selon notre organisation membre française CCFD-Terre Solidaire.
‘Dobrá Novina’ - good news – at CIDSE’s Annual Board of Directors meeting hosted in Portugal by FEC. (French version below)
The absence of new carbon cuts and petty cash for climate action at the U.N. talks leads the world towards catastrophic climate change.(French version below)
Catholic development networks CIDSE and Caritas Internationalis about their expectations for the Doha climate summit, 26 November - 7 December 2012. (French and Spanish version below).
As European leaders gather in Brussels to discuss the EU 2014-2020 budget, CIDSE calls upon the EU to dedicate FTT resources to honour development and climate commitments with FTT revenues.
Three international Christian development and peace groups call on the EU and its Member States to use their influence for a ceasefire in Gaza and Southern Israel, where escalating violence is once again putting civilians at risk.
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Written by CIDSE - Written on Friday, 12 April 2013
Written by CIDSE - Written on Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Written by CIDSE - Written on Tuesday, 26 March 2013