CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation

Advocacy and campaignsadvocacy and campaigns encompasses multiple projects which respond and address issues affecting civil society and civic space across different regions of the World. The charm africa project is a major project in this program. Established in 2019, it's overarching objective is to promote and enhance human rights, civic space and media in sub-saharan africa. Also included is the crisis response fund which provide urgent funding to civil society actors who are facing crisis in freedom of assembly and association to conduct advocacy activities, or to respond proactively to threats to civic freedoms through resiliency activities. In addition to the above, advocacy and campaigns includes multiple projects supporting the right of peaceful assembly.

Researcha prominent function of the civic space research project includes the coordination of the Civicus monitor, an online tool that tracks conditions for civil society in over 197 countries and territories. Together with more than 20 regional research partners we document on an ongoing basis the state of civil society around the globe and provide quantitative information for each country with the goal to provide a comprehensive assessment of the conditions for civil society within countries and over time. The Civicus monitor was launched in 2016 and has become a go-to source for civic space issues among civil society, academia and others.

Civil society resourcingcivil society resourcing includes the civic space initiative project as well as the strengthening 21st century Citizen action project (stca) as two of the major projects.stca , funded by the norwegian agency for development cooperation, adddresses the grap in support to individual activists and new generation changemakers by designing, testing and scaling new initiatives that aim to strengthen Citizen action in the 21st century.

Communication

Innovation and impact

Membership and networks

Strategy and governance