The Power of Civil Society (2)

ISS MA Seminars

The aim of these seminars is to better understand the power of civil society to influence the state around issues such as HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, reproductive rights, and intellectual property rights. The four case studies in Kenya, Tanzania, Peru and India explore the diversity of roles and strategies employed by civil society organizations based on the recent field research of four ISS MA students supported by the Knowledge Programme in 2008.

The reflection and discussions during the seminar will be guided by, firstly, the general, underlying questions of the Knowledge Programme and the contributions of these research projects to answering these questions and, secondly, the value of collaboration between a knowledge-based organisation (ISS) and a practice-based organisation (Hivos).