The Practice of Civic Driven Change (22 June)

Sharing Experiences Between Practitioners

There is increased interest in change processes in which citizens play a central and initiating role. The Civic Driven Change (CDC) framework offers an opportunity to further elaborate on the potential of active citizenship for triggering change in all walks of life: at the political level, in civil society, as well as in business. This workshop to be held on 22 June in The Hague, will provide a platform for practitioners to share and discuss their experiences on innovative citizen-led change processes.

The workshop aims are:

- to share and discuss inspiring examples from various contexts and practices on civic engagement and citizen-led change processes which can deepen the understanding of CDC as

- a framework for assessing and enhancing processes of social change.to generate lessons for future strategizing on citizen-led change processes.

Programme

A range of smaller thematic workshops will take place in which practitioners will share and discuss specific cases. Some workshop themes are:• Civic driven change and markets • Civic goals, un-civilized action? • Promoting active citizenship • Civic driven change in fragile states • Children as civic actors • Civic agency and (party) politics • Learning from civic driven change in The Netherlands • Aided vs. non-aided change • The role of Media in civic driven change • Entrepreneurs as civic actors/ innovative business models In these workshops, the theme will be further explored to discern innovations, inspirations and lessons for strategy.

Audience

The workshop aims to bring together practitioners: Dutch NGO staff members, social entrepreneurs, policy makers, and academics interested in thinking about and promoting citizen-led change processes in their particular sector. Participants will come well prepared to the encounter and will therefore be expected to read a selected number of articles on CDC before the workshop. Participation will be free of charge, but as capacity is limited it is recommended to register as soon as possible by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.

Registration This workshop is organised by Context, international cooperation and the ISS. For more information on this workshop and other activities, contact cdc@iss.nl. Interested participants please register before June 12. See these websites for more details, ISS and Context.