Regional Civic Driven Change
Civic driven change in West Asia
What can an organisation like Hivos do in repressive regimes like Iran and Syria? Does Civic Driven Change (CDC) offer opportunities or new insights for developing strategies in those countries? These are the questions Maaike van Adrichem poses in her research paper on Hivos programme in Syria and Iran: From civil society building to civic driven change?
ICT & Citizens Agency
Since the late 1990s, the prospect of using ICT (Information Communication Technologies) to improve accountability, transparency, access to information, and monitoring authorities has attracted general optimism. However, early hopes that e-initiatives would be the panacea of all the problems have given way to more modest claims. An aspect that has not received much attention so far is the use of ICT in support to citizen agency; to involve and inform communities and interact with and influenc...
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...› read more...
Date: 22 June : Location: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague
Date: 22 June : Location: Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague
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.1Civic 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...Region Other themes on Civic Driven Change
The Changing Face of Citizen Action
Politicians and policy makers have turned the spotlight on the citizen. In the Global North we find Obama’s ‘yes we can’. The UK is at the forefront of an apparent ‘big society’ revival in Europe. In the Global South, citizens face the challenge to enforce good governance and to complement responsive service delivery. And at the international level, citizens are expected to preserve precious public goods, in the absence of effective global policies.On 15 and 16 September a selected group of 4...› read more...
Date: 15 September until 16 September 2011 Location: Museum for Communication, The Hague
Date: 15 September until 16 September 2011 Location: Museum for Communication, The Hague
Fill The Gap!
'Mobile' is the buzz word in development: the key to smart entrepreneurship, citizen participation, and even revolution! But what has five years of experimenting with mobile devices actually brought about? Which expectations have been met, which ones haven’t? And what are the future prospects? On Friday the 20th of April, the 9th edition of network event Fill the Gap! is entirely dedicated to this hype surrounding mobile devices.› read more...
Date: 6 April : Location: NEMO Science center, Oosterdok 2, Amsterdam.
Date: 6 April : Location: NEMO Science center, Oosterdok 2, Amsterdam.
