The Practice of Civic Driven Change (22 June)

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...

A concise guide to the basics

The world is not working well. For more and more people, life is unfair and insecure. In fact, for years now the global future has looked less rather than more politically certain, financially stable and ecologically viable. CDC introduces novel ideas about citizen efforts that can turn this alarming reality around.

Twaweza

Twaweza, meaning “we can make it happen” in Swahili, is a ten-year initiative (2009-2018) that seeks to enable people in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to improve their quality of life through a bold, citizen-centered approach to development and public accountability.

Deep Democracy

The Broker devoted a special report to the Civic Driven Change Initiative (Issue 10). It also created a platform for discussion on CDC on its site. The responses thus far to the special report have helped to launch a public and international conversation with far-ranging implications for the work of democracy building and development.

Civic Driven Change: A new Impetus to the Debate

This policy brief describes the thinking behind and motives for a group of Dutch private aid agencies to support and helpdesign the Civic-Driven Change Initiative.1

Civic Driven Change: Facing Risk

This brief explores assessing risk in organizing civic-driven action. The exercise of citizens’ agency needs to be informed by a mapping of power/relations – class, caste, gender, space – amongst others. In addition, adequate support is called for to translate processes that increase people’s critical awareness into practical action without making those who takerisks to change society more vulnerable in the process.

Civic Driven Change: Organizing Civic Action

This policy brief explores the emergence of organizing as a method of citizen action for change, as it differs from mobilizing and other approaches to problem-solving. The focus of organizing is on developing civic agency as a central element of work on concrete issues. Civic agency is defined as capacities for self-directed collective action in open settings with nopredetermined outcomes but a general orientation to the common good.covery’ of civic agency in aided development.

Civic Driven Change and Aided Development

The Civic-Driven Change (CDC) Initiative provides a story and frame of reference which can add value to the work of (private) aid agencies. However, aid agencies vary, and the stage of development of this understanding - which competes with other methods - is such that a first engagement with CDC would be for agencies to critically reflect on their ‘being’ and ‘doing’ as civic agents of change. In focusing on what this might mean in practice, this briefing paper draws on essay 10 inthe CDC v...