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Malta
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NGDO Platform
National Platform of Maltese NGDOs (SKOP)
Address
SKOP - Solidarjeta u Koperazzjoni
Office 82, National Pool Complex
M.T. Spinelli Street
Tal-Qroqq
Gżira GZR 1711
Malta
Tel/Fax: ++356 21315562
Email: info@skopmalta.org
Contact persons
Dominik Kalweit and William Grech: info@skopmalta.org
Basic data
Start of activities/Founding date: June 2001
Number of member organisations: 18 members, 5 associates (November 2012)
Link to the platform members' list: http://skopmalta.org/Members/tabid/1063/language/en-GB/Default.aspx
Platform Working Groups (WGs)
Aid Watch
Development Education and Awareness Raising
Active in the following CONCORD WGs
AidWatch
Development Education and Awareness Raising (DARE Forum)
More information on the platform, its strategic aims, main successes and challenges in 2012: status November and status April (pdf)
Publications of the Platform
Maltese NGOs, Local Councils & International Development Cooperation (2012) (pdf)
Official Development Assistance (ODA)
Website MFA - http://www.foreign.gov.mt/
The Malta-EU Steering and Action Committee MEUSAC, a government body assisting NGOs and Local Councils in the proposal submission process for EU funds is active in the dissemination of EU funding information. The latter consists mainly of the utilisation of various media including a funding-themed website www.funding360.eu with importance also being given to the provision of a partner search database.
Basic data
- ODA spending in 2011: 14.94 million EUR / 0.25% of GNI (2010: 6.24 million EUR / 0.11% of GNI; 2009: 0.20% of GNI
- ODA priority countries: Horn of Africa; North Africa / Middle East (Mediterranean South), especially Palestine; Commonwealth member LLCDs.
- Official ODA documents: Overseas Development Policy and Framework for Humanitarian Assistance for Malta
Further reading
The Maltese NGDO Platform - A good idea has turned into a meaningful structure, by Vince Caruana, Kopin. In: TRIALOG Bulletin No. 3, 2004, p.4
NGDOs and Development Cooperation in Malta, by Vince Caruana, Kopin (June 2003)
The Maltese NGDO National Platform, by Michael Gatt, Kopin. In: TRIALOG Bulletin No. 1, 2002, p. 5.