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Official Development Assistance: Collapse?

Joint interview with Thierry Mauricet and Xavier Boutin, presidents of Coordination Humanitaire et Développement (CHD)

« L’aide publique au développement n’est pas une dépense, c’est un investissement pour la paix et la dignité humaine »

General Assembly 2025 – CHD

Défis Humanitaires: Coordination Humanitaire et Développement (CHD) today plays a key role between emergency and development actors. Can you remind us what it represents and how it fits into the landscape of international solidarity?

Thierry Mauricet: CHD today brings together 59 French NGOs, engaged both in crisis settings and in long-term development programs. Together, that’s 2,675 projects or programs deployed, in more than 120 countries, by 28,099 staff. In 2024, CHD member organizations managed to mobilize €2.1 billion to support millions of people. CHD constitutes a unique space for dialogue between humanitarian and development actors, two worlds which, although complementary, do not always work on the same timelines or with the same tools.

Xavier Boutin: CHD also represents field actors at the heart of Coordination SUD (CSUD), of which we are a full member. This membership gives us a collective voice within the French institutional landscape. With Coordination SUD, we share the same objective: to defend an ambitious policy of international solidarity. CHD is a pillar of this, by carrying the “field” specificities of NGOs that combine emergency, reconstruction and development, and by advocating intensely for public co-financing of NGOs.

Défis Humanitaires: Official development assistance (ODA) grew between 2014 and 2022. What were the drivers?

Thierry / Xavier: Several dynamics converged to explain this progression. Between 2017 and 2022, French ODA rose from 0.43% (i.e., €10.1 billion) to 0.56% of GNI, i.e., €15.2 billion, which enabled France to become the 4th largest donor in the world. This increase was supported by strong advocacy from civil society, notably carried by CHD within Coordination SUD. In 2016, France ranked among the last countries of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), with only 2.8% of its ODA channeled through NGOs, compared to a European average of around 15%[1]. This situation contributed to a realization by the State. However, this trajectory was brutally interrupted in February 2024, when the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty Bruno Le Maire decided to cut €742 million from the “Official development assistance” mission,

Défis Humanitaires: The budgetary news of recent months has been marked by an unprecedented contraction of ODA. How do you analyze this development?

Thierry Mauricet: Contraction is an understatement. Between 2024 and 2026; if the 2026 Finance Bill (PLF) is adopted as is, the ODA budget appropriations would fall from €5.9 billion to only €2.9 billion. That’s a halving in three years, a historic setback that would bring France back to funding levels comparable to those of the early 2010s.

Xavier Boutin: What is particularly alarming is the impact on the mechanisms that directly support NGOs. In 2023, the budget allocated to AFD project aid, the Civil Society Organizations Initiative (I-OSC), the Humanitarian Emergency Fund (FUH) and Volunteering amounted to €1.3 billion[2]. In 2026, this amount would fall to €497 million, a decrease of more than 60%. It is a brutal strategic reversal, which marks a clear disengagement of the State from civil society. This means fewer resources to respond to the needs of the 350 million people requiring humanitarian aid according to the UN in 2025. This French retreat is part of a global trend, started as early as 2021 in the United Kingdom, then in Germany and in the United States under the Trump administration.

Thierry Mauricet: This reduction is not only budgetary, it is political. It calls into question the role of NGOs in implementing international solidarity, even though they are on the front line in the face of humanitarian, climate and geopolitical crises. CHD warns: it is the funding channeled through NGOs that is hardest hit, even though it is essential to act quickly, effectively and as close as possible to the needs of populations.

Evolution of AFD and humanitarian funding to NGOs 2022–2026

Défis Humanitaires: What concrete consequences do you observe in the field?

Thierry Mauricet: Each budget cut translates into suspended or stopped programs, non-renewed local staff, weakened partners. To visualize the human impact: the decrease observed to date, €2.3 billion, would have made it possible to finance basic vaccination for more than 71 million children, one year of food assistance for 4 million households, schooling support for 17 million children, emergency shelter for 45 million families, or agricultural training for 2 million young people[3]. These cuts hit humanitarian and development programs hard in already fragile countries such as Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Chad, Madagascar or Lebanon where some NGOs have had to pause their activities in health care, food security, water and sanitation, education or agriculture. Entire populations find themselves in uncertainty.

Xavier Boutin: And it is not just a matter of numbers. Behind each suspended project, there are communities that were gradually shedding their dependence on emergency aid. French NGOs have been working for years to promote autonomy, to train young farmers, to strengthen health systems. When funding stops, the entire development chain breaks.

Dr. Fabien Kibukila, from Première Urgence, talks with a community liaison officer in the Zayna displacement camp. 28 November 2023, North Kivu province, DRC. ©PUI

Défis Humanitaires : Yet, ODA has shown impressive results…

Xavier Boutin: Absolutely. ODA has enabled major progress. In twenty years, according to WHO and the Global Fund, more than 70 million lives have been saved thanks to the fight against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis[4]. UNICEF indicates that the number of out-of-school children at secondary level has decreased by 30%[5]. And beyond the figures, it is about political stability and crisis prevention. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) estimates that one dollar invested in prevention yields 103 dollars in economic returns[6]. Few public investments have such a social return.

Thierry Mauricet: These results are proof that ODA works, that it is not a bottomless pit. It saves lives and contributes indirectly or directly to peace, security and human dignity. That is why we say that ODA is not an expense, but a strategy of international responsibility.

Défis Humanitaires: How is French public opinion reacting to this situation?

Thierry Mauricet: The French massively support international solidarity. According to a Harris Interactive survey, two-thirds of our fellow citizens are in favor[7], and this proportion rises to more than 80% among young people[8]. This support is essential: it shows us that French society remains deeply attached to its values of solidarity, beyond political divides.

Xavier Boutin: This is all the more striking since in other countries, such as the United States or the United Kingdom, cuts have often been justified by a supposedly hostile public opinion towards aid. In France, it is the opposite: society is ahead of its leaders. 56% of the French want to maintain or increase ODA according to Focus 2030[9]. This creates a democratic space to make our voice heard.

Défis Humanitaires : What is CHD’s position in the face of this situation?

Thierry Mauricet: We are calling for a floor of co-financing for NGOs to be ring-fenced, for French Humanitarian and Development Organizations (OHD) and civil society organizations in partner countries to be prioritized, and for intermediaries between donors and the field to be limited. The leverage effect of co-financing is powerful because every euro invested in international solidarity attracts others. State funding makes it possible to obtain European, multilateral or private co-financing, multiplying the impact of projects. For example, an agricultural project financed at 20% by the French Development Agency (AFD) can mobilize an additional 80% from other donors[10]. Without that first public euro, nothing would exist.

Xavier Boutin: And beyond the financial effect, there is a political and symbolic effect. When France supports a project in Niger, Cameroon or Haiti, it sends a signal of confidence. It is also a way of asserting a positive French presence, based on cooperation and not on a purely security-driven logic.

Défis Humanitaires : What concrete actions is CHD implementing for its members?

Xavier Boutin: Starting in February 2025, CHD initiated a “Public Affairs” approach in order to strengthen dialogue with parliamentarians and public decision-makers. We meet them regularly to explain, with supporting figures, the impact of ODA, and in particular the role of OHDs, on health, education or food security. Our approach is non-partisan: we remind them that international solidarity is neither right nor left, but that it reflects France’s place and values in the world.

Thierry Mauricet: We act in complementarity and in perfect synergy with Coordination SUD, which carries the voice of all development NGOs. CHD thus proposed and obtained from Coordination SUD to propose an amendment to PLF2026, securing a strict minimum of co-financing for field projects of French NGOs and local CSOs. This minimal effort of €186 million, representing 0.03% of the State budget appropriations and 4.2% of the ODA Mission, would allow NGOs to maintain a minimum of activities and, for some, to survive.

Défis Humanitaires : How do you envision the future, particularly for 2026 and 2027?

Xavier Boutin: The government’s PLF 2026 represents a very serious threat to public co-financing of our humanitarian, development and volunteering projects, and to the very existence of some organizations. The entire CHD governance is strongly mobilized to convince public decision-makers to correct it. Member organizations, although very mobilized on their field issues, are also numerous to mobilize, which is a strong signal sent to the authorities.

After the adoption of the finance law, we will maintain constant dialogue with public decision-makers, to avoid new threats, and continue to make known the high added value of our organizations’ actions.

Thierry Mauricet: In parallel, we have initiated several lines of reflection: reducing ineligible costs (with Donnadieu & Associés), pooling human resources, studying mergers or even fusions between organizations, … Some organizations also seem interested in new forms of cooperation with international donors, for example loans.

Défis Humanitaires: What message would you like to send as the 2026 budget debate opens?

Thierry Mauricet: It is essential to remind that French NGOs play an irreplaceable role in international solidarity. They intervene where institutions cannot always go, with agility, proximity and expertise. They are able to quickly mobilize their expertise, resources, work with local partners, and innovate in complex contexts. In 2023, the mechanisms accessible to them — AFD grant projects, Initiative-OSC, Humanitarian Emergency Fund, crisis reserve, volunteering — amounted to €1.3 billion. In 2026, this amount risks falling to €497 million. This is not a simple decrease: it is a collapse. It is thousands of projects, partnerships, jobs and concrete actions that are threatened. France cannot afford to weaken such a strategic sector, recognized for its effectiveness and legitimacy in the field.

Xavier Boutin: More broadly, it must be recalled that ODA is an investment in global stability. It helps prevent conflicts, strengthen health systems, fight inequalities and support ecological transitions. Development works: the progress made in recent decades in health, education or poverty reduction testifies to this. Breaking this dynamic is to weaken an essential lever of France’s international action. The 2021 Programming and Orientation Law on Solidarity Development and the Fight Against Global Inequalities (LOP-DSLIM), adopted unanimously, carried an ambitious and shared vision. Today, less than a third of its commitments have been realized. It is time to reassert strong political will, commensurate with the stakes and responsibilities of France in the world.

Construction sector in Liberia, 2024. ©IECD

Conclusion
The challenges are immense, but the mobilization remains intact. French NGOs, united within CHD and Coordination SUD, are part of a tradition of international solidarity engaged since the 1970s. This model, modernized over time, works effectively today: it is based on cooperation, local anchoring and innovation. It would be incomprehensible to weaken it at a time when humanitarian and development needs have never been so pressing.
As Thierry sums it up: “It is not a question of means, it is a question of priorities.”
And Xavier adds: “Official development assistance is not an expense; it is an investment in peace, stability and human dignity.”

 

[1]French NGOs facing the globalization of aid, Vincent Pradier,URL : Les ONG françaises face à la globalisation de l’aide

[2] In commitment authorizations

[3] Position paper PLF 2026: Red alert on the budget for international solidarity, Coordination Sud, 10/2025, URL : CSUD_Alerte_rouge_budget_SI_PLF2026_oct2025.pdf

[4] 2025 Annual Results Report of the Global Fund, URL : Rapport sur les résultats du Fonds mondial : 70 millions de vies ont été sauvées, mais les progrès sont menacés – Communiqués de presse – Le Fonds mondial de lutte contre le sida, la tuberculose et le paludisme

[5] Position paper PLF 2026: Red alert on the budget for international solidarity, Coordination Sud.

[6] The Urgency of Conflict Prevention – A Macroeconomic Perspective, IMF Live, 12/20/2024, URL : The Urgency of Conflict Prevention – A Macroeconomic Perspective

[7] International Solidarity Survey: the lucidity of the French, 06/2025,URL : https://www.jean-jaures.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Solid_intern.pdf

[8] Rémy Rioux (AFD): “Young people are more favorable to development aid,” Le Dauphiné, 05/2025, URL : Exclusif. Rémy Rioux (AFD) : « Les jeunes sont plus favorables à l’aide au développement »

[9] A majority of French people in favor of maintaining or increasing official development assistance, Focus 2030, 06/19/2025,URL : Une majorité de Français·es en faveur d’un maintien ou d’une augmentation de l’aide publique au développement

[10] The initiative on integrating scaling-up in donor organizations – AFD, Éric Beugnot, 03/2025, URL : VScaling-at-AFD-fr-FINAL.pd

 

 

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Thierry Mauricet :

After training at a business school at the Institut Européen des Affaires, in law at the University of Paris X and a professional activity in advertising for 7 years, Thierry Mauricet co-founded the association Première Urgence in June 1992 to assist besieged populations in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 1994 to 2011, he served as the association’s Managing Director.

He is now Managing Director of Première Urgence Internationale, an association resulting from the merger of two French NGOs in April 2011. He is also President of Coordination Humanitaire et Développement, Administrator of Coordination SUD, a member of the National Council for Development and International Solidarity, a member of the Steering Committee of the National Humanitarian Conference of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, a member of the Strategic Orientation Committee of the Humanitarian Space Forum, and a member of the Advisory Board of the international journal Alternatives Humanitaires.

Première Urgence Internationale aims to provide integrated assistance in the areas of health, food security, nutrition, rehabilitation and construction of infrastructure, access to water, hygiene and sanitation, economic recovery, education and protection, for civilian populations who are victims or endangered by the effects of wars, natural disasters, the consequences of global warming, and economic collapse following an international or national political upheaval. Première Urgence Internationale’s annual budget is €140 million and its 3,500 employees implement 200 projects in 26 countries in favor of more than 6 million vulnerable people.

 

Xavier Boutin, Directeur général et co-fondateur de l’IECD, Président de la CHD

After a master’s degree at the European Business School in Paris, a master’s degree in business law and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, Xavier Boutin began his career in 1978 in international grain trading at Louis Dreyfus. In 1980, he decided to devote himself to teaching philosophy and training young people and, two years later, took over the management of a popular education association. Keen to show solidarity with populations in difficulty, Xavier Boutin co-founded in 1988 the Institut Européen de Coopération et de Développement (IECD), of which he has been the executive director. IECD first responded to requests from civil society actors, in Madagascar in 1989, then in Lebanon and Cameroon. Gradually, the association extended its activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, but also in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Today, it operates in 18 countries and supports the implementation of 38 development projects. Over 25 years, IECD has developed recognized expertise in three core areas: technical training and professional integration of young people, support for small businesses and access of vulnerable populations to education and health. Since June 2013, Xavier Boutin has been co-chairing CHD with Thierry Mauricet. Previously, he was a member of the board of Coordination d’Agen and, from 1997 to 2011, treasurer of Coordination Sud. Xavier Boutin also teaches at IRCOM and speaks at numerous conferences on development-related issues.

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“International Solidarity is the concern of the whole nation”.

Interview of Philippe Jahshan, President of Coordination Sud, by Alain Boinet. On the financing of international solidarity following the Covid-19 crisis.

Alain Boinet : The CICID (Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development) of February 8, 2018 decided to increase ODA (Official Development Assistance) on a progressive trajectory to reach 0.55% of France’s GNP (Gross National Product) in 2022. In the current context of the global pandemic and recovery plan, will this commitment be fulfilled?

Philippe Jahshan: If we speak in percentage terms, yes, and probably as early as this year! But this is due to the contraction of GNI (Gross National Income). Therefore, we will have to speak mainly in terms of volumes. We will judge whether or not the pre-COVID mandate commitments have been met on the objective of 15 billion.

 

During a recent meeting with Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs with Coordination Sud, the latter affirmed that the objective was indeed to secure the ODA budget course in 2021 at 0.51% of GNP? Are you reassured by these words?

The Minister has shown his determination to secure the means for ODA and we welcome this. But we are going further. We believe that we can no longer be satisfied with pre-crisis commitments. The situation has totally changed and we have entered into a major and historic rupture that must be addressed at the right level.

 

Faced with the Covid-19 pandemic, which particularly affects the most fragile countries, you recently declared that “France can no longer be satisfied with pre-established objectives”. Indeed, the liquidity needs for these countries are essential. In spite of a debt moratorium, the latest G-20 seems rather divided and wait-and-see on this subject. Aren’t we wasting precious time?

Absolutely. We’re wasting very precious time. If we take up Ester Duflo’s analyses, she argues that it is much less costly economically, socially and humanly to produce debt that is repayable over very long periods of time, but which produces immediate recovery – and therefore activity – rather than letting entire populations fall into poverty traps due to a lack of immediate investment. This, in fact, produces greater economic cost in the short and medium term, not to mention the social and human cost. In fact, our countries have made this calculation for themselves. This is the purpose of the European recovery plan that France has put forward. And for some, it remains insufficient.

We ask that the same reasoning be applied to developing countries. By revising upwards the pre-crisis ambitions in terms of ODA, in France, as in Europe and at the level of all bi or multilateral donors. Because there can be no recovery or sustainable recovery and stability without integrating a share of international solidarity into our national efforts.

Estimates of the human, health, social and economic cost of the crisis for developing countries are massive. Before the summer, the United Nations estimated the immediate needs at around $500 billion. And France, by the way, had initiated this mobilization. The President of the Republic had called on the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to release $500 billion in international monetary creation, and had pledged that France’s share (around $25 billion) could be directed towards developing countries. This, coupled with his commitment to cancel the debts of the poorest countries, constituted an ambitious roadmap. Unfortunately, the initiative at the IMF was blocked by the United States, and debt payments were only postponed.

So, if we take stock of the situation today, we see that no massive effort has been undertaken by any donor country. The European Union and the countries of the North as a whole have not devoted any additional euros to ODA. This is very regrettable.

General Assembly of Coordination Sud, 2019. Jean-Yves Le Drian and Philippe Jahshan. ®CoordinationSud

 

The budget of the European Union for international solidarity is in retreat for the period 2021-2027 following the recovery plan of 750 billion euros. What should we think about it and can we hope that multilateral organizations such as the IMF or the World Bank will come to abound the indispensable resources by the transfer of communicating vessels.

To date, there are no guarantees for this. It is undoubtedly the calculation of several donor countries, as in France, to bet on a global recovery through the IMF or the World Bank, but as I said earlier, to date, this has not worked. National egoisms are taking over. We hoped that the European Union would do its part and make room for international solidarity in its recovery plan. The reality of the negotiations, especially with those who have been called “frugals”, has been one of sacrifice, especially of this international part of the plan. These are deplorable and short-sighted calculations.

 

When we see the situation in Lebanon or Mali, or even in Afghanistan, we say to ourselves that good political, economic and social governance is indispensable for the useful use of all foreign aid. What can this inspire the actors of international solidarity?

The variety of situations calls for solutions to be measured according to each context. However, based on these three countries, we can usefully reiterate the importance of never considering solidarity as an external object; that is, thought of by the one who helps, for the benefit of the one who needs to be helped.

In this sense, as in our own countries, the real nets of resilience and development are to be found in the vitality of the local civil society, its associative actors and those who create and carry out economic activity, especially social and solidarity-based. They are located in the foundations of citizen and democratic participation and proximity. They are located in the countless local know-how, often poorly valued in the history of development, because they are considered of lesser value than the technologies of the developed world. It is with these actors, and it is in what makes it possible to produce full, independent citizens, that international aid must be invested. It is in the actors who build true democratic transitions.

For the three cases cited, we can sometimes wonder whether the bulk of the resources have been devoted to this. We know how much aid is incriminated because it can feed corruption here and there, and it has been able to maintain impotent regimes despite common sense in so many countries. This is undoubtedly true. But it is not the principle of aid or solidarity that should be condemned, but the methods, objectives and real purposes of this aid.

 

As a vector and tool of international solidarity, many NGOs are impacted by the situation, at the risk of having to reduce if not interrupt certain aid programs, however crucial, at the very moment when their action is indispensable. What do you expect from public authorities as a measure?

We have made several proposals on this subject. A number of them have been taken into account and I welcome them. For example, that of relaxing the conditions and rules for AFD (Agence Française de Développement) co-financing for programs for the year 2020; the guarantee that volumes and subsidies for ongoing programs will be maintained, even in the event of a halt or delay in execution; or access for NGOs, like all associations, to measures to help the country’s general economy: deferring charges, access to short-time working measures, access to state-guaranteed loans, etc.

Finally, following our meeting with Jean Yves Le Drian at the end of May, we obtained additional exceptional funding of 20 million euros for humanitarian aid and development projects by French NGOs. This is a major effort in a constant ODA budget. But more than 140 French NGOs responded to the Minister’s appeal through Coordination SUD, for a total of 440 projects corresponding to more than 272 million euros. We have thus demonstrated the extraordinary vitality of the sector despite the crisis, and its capacity in two weeks to mobilize and produce proposals for action with the State.

I hope that this will contribute to transforming a little more, the perception that the authorities may still have of the role, capacity and effectiveness of French NGOs.

But beyond these measures, we also called for exceptional support for patronage and public generosity, notably by increasing the tax exemption for donations to 75% for the last half of the year, so essential especially as the end of the year approaches. I regret that this request was rejected by the government during the parliamentary debate on the 3rd budgetary correction last June.

I also regret that, at this stage, no structural support measures have been put in place to make up for the associations’ losses in operating costs. NGOs in particular have very diversified resources. They are strongly supported by the generosity of the public and by patronage. Estimates on this point are bad for the end of the year, and probably for 2021. The lost means are not recovering. These are all co-financing that the NGOs will not be able to honor, including from public donors who would have maintained their support.

Delivery of civil society recommendations to countries
of the G7 to Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, Secretary of State to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs at the C7 summit – Paris, July 1, 2019. ®CoordinationSud

During your interview with Jean-Yves Le Drian you talked about the LOP (Law “solidarity development”) for international development and he announced its relaunch. When could it intervene and what are the stakes for you.

The timetable is not yet specified. We are hoping for a relaunch of the project for this fall. The minister spoke of a relaunch as early as September and the CESE (Economic, Social and Environmental Council) has already been seized of a project rectified following the Covid crisis. So, this confirms that the process is resuming. So much the better.

For us at Coordination Sud, this law must embody France’s political commitment to build a world that is less unequal, without poverty and more ecological. It must enshrine our country’s commitments to the implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the SDOs (Sustainable Development Goals), and in this sense, it must provide the means to ensure greater coherence between domestic public policies and international development policy. It must resolutely enshrine France’s commitments to the promotion and defense of human rights and equality between women and men. This law must also affirm our country’s commitment to the defense of international humanitarian law and all the humanitarian principles that are so often flouted today in so many fields.

We also believe that the law must enshrine the essential role of civil society and international solidarity associations in particular. The recognition of their right of initiative, stemming from the freedom of association enshrined in our Constitution; and consequently, the place and role of the citizen in the exercise of France’s international solidarity.

In short, we say that development policy is not just a matter for the executive. But it must be the business of the nation as a whole. And the law must embody it.

Finally, of course, we expect the law to confirm a programmatic budgetary dimension, projecting the ambition of reaching 0.7% of our GNI by 2025, and setting the precise steps to achieve this by that date. The President of the Republic, in his speech on the recovery he wants, stated that all public policies must be built over a long period of time. Development policy is, par excellence, a long-term policy. It would be incomprehensible if the program adopted in 2021 were to stop only at the end of the five-year period.

 

How do you wish to conclude?

By thanking you! And by expressing the hope that the crisis we are going through, which will probably constitute a major breakthrough in the history of this century, will be an opportunity for a better world: in other words, the trigger to accelerate the social, ecological and democratic transformations that are at work just about everywhere and to better respond to citizens’ aspirations for greater participation and consideration.

Last spring, Jean Yves Le Drian expressed his fears that tomorrow’s world will be worse than the one before; he was no doubt not wrong. Let’s make sure that this is not the case! And what better lever than international solidarity for this?

 

Who is Philippe Jahshan?

A graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) with a specialization in International Relations and development professions, Philippe Jahshan has been involved in NGOs and particularly in Solidarité Laïque since 2002. After holding several positions as project manager, he became in 2009 the delegate for international actions, then in 2016 the delegate for external relations.

At the same time, Philippe has held several mandates in international solidarity collectives: coordinator of the Euromed France Network (2005-2008), administrator (from 2006) then president of the F3E (2010-2012) and administrator of Coordination SUD since 2010.

Within Coordination SUD, Philippe Jahshan has been particularly involved in European issues. As Coordination SUD’s European referent, he represented Coordination SUD within Concord, where he co-chaired the Policy Forum between 2011 and 2012, and was its representative at the European Commission’s Policy Forum for Development until 2015.

Elected to the Coordination SUD Board in 2012, he served as Treasurer and then Vice President. Since January 2015, Philippe Jahshan has been President of Coordination SUD (re-elected for a second three-year term in December 2017). He is a member of the National Council for Development and International Solidarity, and of its Bureau as an NGO. He sits on the Board of Directors of the AFD. Since November 2015, he has been a member of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, in the group of associations. In this capacity, Philippe Jahshan was rapporteur to the Cese for an opinion on French Cooperation in the framework of the 2030 sustainable development agenda.

Finally, in October 2016, he was elected President of the Mouvement Associatif (the coordination of French associative collectives).