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Better aid : A civil society position paper for the 2008 Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness [pdf]  new

This report is endorsed by more than 380 civil society organisations (CSOs) from over 80 countries. It outlines some of the key CSO critiques and concerns about the Paris agenda and its implementation, as well as some specific recommendations for the High Level Forum (HLF)to be held in Accra in 2008. (betteraid.org, 2008)

http://www.betteraid.org/downloads/Better%20Aid%20-%20final%20final.pdf

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"We're Living in a World of Global Economic Apartheid"

Interview with Kumi Naidoo: Less than a fortnight remains before the seventh annual World Assembly of CIVICUS -- the World Alliance for Citizen Participation. This Johannesburg-based body brings together non-governmental organisations from across the spectrum to strengthen civil society, notably where its activities are under threat. (IPS, 12 May 2007)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37714

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"War on terror is undermining democracy"

Political repression and the war on terror are expected to be amongst issues discussed at the five-day CIVICUS World Assembly that begins in the Scottish city of Glasgow on June 21. Kumi Naidoo, CIVICUS secretary general, said that some of civil society's most important activists could not be there as they were in prison. The conference will look at the state of civil society, including "the war on terror and how it is undermining democratic space." (Moyiga Nduru - IPS/TerraViva, 10 June 2006)

http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/civicus/viewstory.asp?idnews=632

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'Global Governance' or the World Social Forum: Divergent analysis, strategy and tactics

This paper considers three different conceptualizations - three politico-ideological perspectives within civil society - on global-scale economics and geopolitics. The standpoints can be termed 'global justice movements', 'Third World nationalism' and the 'Post-Washington Consensus' (Patrick Bond, 2006).

http://www.istr.org/conferences/bangkok/WPVolume/Bond.Patrick.pdf

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2008 CIVICUS Youth Assembly

The CIVICUS Youth Assembly takes place from 16-21 June 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland and will build on the fantastic success of the 2007 Youth Assembly, with more extensive participation and even more delegate places. Delegates will again be assisted to attend, with accommodation, food, programme events and CIVICUS delegate fees sponsored. This year we are also delighted to offer a limited number of travel bursaries Space is limited, and delegate places will be awarded to the strongest applicants from around the world.Deadline for applications: 31 March 2008

http://www.rnw.org.uk/CIVICUS2008.aspx

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A CODE OF CONDUCT FOR NGOs -- A NECESSARY REFORM

This paper examines the growing power of a group of privately owned and operated pressure groups that fall under the general category of non-government organizations, or NGOs.

http://www.iea.org.uk/wpapers/NGO.htm

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African citizen passport launched

The African Citizen passport was on Thursday launched in Accra by some Civil Society groups shortly after the official opening of the Ninth Assembly of the African Union Heads of States Summit. (28 June 2007, Ghanaweb)

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=126360

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Aid Initiatives Not to Be Taken on Faith

This article compares the experiences of two foreign faith-based charitable organisations -World Vision and Dream for Africa - in Swaziland, whose differing attitudes towards local communities determined whether they would suceed or fail in their common mission of 'helping'. (James Hall, IPS News, 10 April 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=32841

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Arming NGOs with knowledge: a guide to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

This handbook explains the nature, structure and activities of the IMF in order to de-mystify the institution and explain how it affects people's lives. It also presents the criticisms that various citizens' groups have had of IMF operations, and specific strategies for targeting the Fund and other related institutions. Despite the Fund's growing power, the time is ripe to push for comprehensive changes at the IMF. The global financial crisis has sparked an unprecedented debate among policymakers and within the media on the role of the IMF as no other recent event has. The growing international citizens' movement calling for comprehensive debt relief for the world's poorest countries is proof that people can and are getting educated and mobilized on issues of economic injustice. (Friends of the Earth, 2006)

http://www.foe.org/res/pubs/pdf/handbook.pdf

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Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment: A Guide

The Access Initiative has developed a set of tools to help civil society groups measure how well governments are performing on access to information, public participation, and justice in decision-making for the environment. These tools are available in the new CD-ROM publication, Assessing Access to Information, Participation, and Justice for the Environment: A Guide. The Guide describes our unique methodology and includes more than 150 research questions designed to measure law and practice in the following areas: * Degree of access to selected types of Information about the Environment; * Degree of Public Participation in decision-making processes; and * Comprehensiveness and quality of Capacity Building efforts to encourage informed and meaningful public participation. In addition, the Guide provides detailed and user-friendly instructions for all phases of the assessment, including assembling a coalition, launching a study, selecting cases and research methods, finalizing data, and using findings to stimulate tangible results.

http://www.accessinitiative.org/how_to_guide.html

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Audio Webchat with Jeffrey Sachs

The 2007 Lectures are given by one of the world's foremost economists, Professor Jeffrey Sachs. (BBC, 9 May 2007)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2007/

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Australia scrutinizes influence of nongovernmental groups

Spurred by conservative rumblings over the growing clout of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the Australian government is taking a closer look at such groups' activities at home and abroad.Earlier this year, Prime Minister John Howard offered to investigate all aid agencies working in Indonesia using Australian government funding, following complaints by President Megawati Sukarnoputri. And in a move that critics see as politically motivated, his government has hired a conservative think tank to investigate NGO influence on some government agencies. (Janaki Kremmer, Christian Science Monitor, September 05, 2003)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0905/p07s01-woap.html

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Between Grassroots and Governments - Civil Society Experiences with the PRSPs: A Study of Local Civil Society Response to the PRSPs (pdf)

By Susanne Possing, Programme Researcher. DIIS Working Paper 2003:20, September 2003. The report focuses on civil society experience with locally identified priorities for poverty eradication, an area little examined and less discussed in the international debate on PRSP to date. In the three N/S PRSP Programme countries, Honduras, Nicaragua and Zambia, civil society organisations have been involved in efforts to identify national as well as local priorities for poverty eradication. Taking the point of departure in involvement of CS with PRSP planning and monitoring at both levels, the paper presents a range of challenges and dilemmas for civil society in its efforts to combat poverty. Special attention is given to civil society initiatives and response to PRSP in provinces, districts and communities.

http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2003/sup_grassroots.pdf

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Board Café

An electronic newsletter exclusively for members of nonprofit boards of directors. Short enough to read over a cup of coffee, Board Café offers a menu of ideas, information, opinion, news, and resources to help board members give and get the most out of board service. Each issue will bring you a cornucopia of "Little Ideas," as well as one "Big Idea" you can use in your board work.

http://www4.compasspoint.org/p.asp?WebPage_ID=660

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Bringing Community-learnt Knowledge into the Policy Debate : The Case of Legal Aid Centres [pdf]

The knowledge of poverty gained from working with poor people is hardly ever given importance in policy debates relevant to poverty reduction. In Uganda and South Africa, people such as lawyers running legal aid centres could communicate their community-learned knowledge of poverty to inform national level pro-poor policies. (Overseas Development Institute (ODI) working paper, 2006)

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp277.pdf

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Bringing Community-learnt Knowledge into the Policy Debate: The Case of Legal Aid Centres [pdf]

The knowledge of poverty gained from working with poor people is rarely given importance in policy debates relevant to poverty reduction. In Uganda and South Africa, local elites such as lawyers running legal aid centres could communicate their community-learned knowledge of poverty to inform national level pro-poor policies.(Ursula Grant, Ingie Hovland and Zaza Curran, October 2006)

http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/working_papers/wp277.pdf

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Budget Analysis and Policy Advocacy: The Role of Non-Governmental Public Action (PDF)

Mark Robinson, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) working paper, September 2006. This paper examines the impact and significance of independent budget analysis and advocacy initiatives that are designed to improve budget transparency and the poverty focus of government expenditure priorities. It draws on case study research of six budget groups in Brazil, Croatia, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Uganda, which include non-governmental organisations, research institutions and social movements. The findings demonstrate that civil society budget initiatives contribute to improvements in the transparency of budgetary decisions and the budget process, increased budget awareness and literacy, and deeper engagement in the budget process on the part of legislators, the media and civil society organisations.

http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/bookshop/wp/wp279.pdf

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Bush to NGOs: Watch Your Mouths

By Naomi Klein, June 20, 2003. The Bush administration has found its next target for pre-emptive war, but it's not Iran, Syria or North Korea -- not yet, anyway. Before launching any new foreign adventures, the Bush gang has some homeland housekeeping to take care of: It is going to sweep up those pesky non-governmental organizations that are helping to turn world opinion against U.S. bombs and brands.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0620-06.htm

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Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in the Millenium Development Goals

CIVICUS has produced a Campaigning Toolkit for Civil Society Organisations engaged in the Millenium Development Goals. The manual aims to build upon material that already exists from other sources. It provides a framework and a starting point for those interested in linking their efforts with the MDG Campaign at all levels.

http://www.civicus.org/mdg/title.htm

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Capitale Sociale.it

A website on social capital providing useful resources for all researchers interested in this topic, and promoting discussion and ideas exchange. It includes: - A reading list on social capital, partitioned into eight sections. Particular attention is paid to the role of social capital in the fight against poverty and inequalities, and to the relationship between social capital and development. - A collection of digital libraries on social capital. - A collection of websites on social capital, civil society, poverty and development. - A directory of social scientists interested in the study of social capital. - A section of generic resources for social sciences. Capitale Sociale.it is edited by Fabio Sabatini of the University of Rome La Sapienza.

http://dep.eco.uniroma1.it/~soccap/eng-index.htm

(Added: Mon Feb 23 2004   Modified: Wed Jun 21 2006   Hits: 459)

Charities in firing line of Russian law

Russia has brought into force a new law that critics say gives officials a free hand to harass charities and human rights groups they do not like. The law, regulating the activities of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has brought fresh allegations the Kremlin is backtracking on democracy in a year in which Russia is making its debut as chair of the Group of Eight rich nations. President Vladimir Putin says the law is needed to help stop terrorists, money launderers and foreign intelligence services using NGOs as a cover. He says legitimate groups have nothing to fear from the new rules. Foreign and Russian groups said their biggest concern was not so much the new requirements set out in the law as the scope it leaves for abuse by officials. (Reuters, 19 April 2006)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/04/17/russia.ngo.reuters/

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Charities thrive with online volunteers

Charities and community groups around the world are increasingly using online volunteers for a wide variety of work. this article provides examples and resources on virtual volunteering (The Associated Press, 23 August 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Charities%20thrive%20with%20online%20volunteers.doc

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Child Sponsorship: a funding tool for sustainable development?

This article has looked at the nature of child sponsorship programmes and has set out the main arguments for and against sponsorship as a funding source for development. These arguments focus on the effects of sponsorship programmes on the recipient community, on the level of understanding and motivations of the donors, and on the costs involved in running such programmes. Sponsoring agencies have addressed internally the issues raised by public debate. However, whilst sponsorship is a growing phenomenon capable of raising large amounts of relatively stable longer-term funding, little empirical research-based evidence is available concerning its impact. (INTRAC, 2000)

http://www.intrac.org/docs.php?id=427

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Chile: The Associational Reconstruction of a Nation

This report looks at the state of civil society in Chile, finding it balanced and relatively strong. The main weaknesses are civil society's lacking human and technological resources, capacity of self-regulation and CSOs' difficulty to generate international linkages. Similarly, the environment in which it operates is somewhat enabling although some weaknesses remain as for instance considering the legal environment and the relations with the private sector. One key element that characterises civil society in Chile is the sector's duality between the more and the less structured organisations, notably between non governmental organisations (NGOs) and a broader community-based associational network. (Fundacion Soles, Civicus, 2006)

http://www.civicus.org/new/CSI_Chile.htm

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Choike

Choike is a portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South. It serves as a platform where NGOs can disseminate their work and at the same time enrich it with information from diverse sources, organized in line with the perspective of Southern civil society. Choike offers: # A directory of NGOs organized in categories and sub-categories. A selection of materials produced by NGOs which contain information of relevance to civil society and to those people who are interested in what NGOs have to say.# In-depth reports on key issues, which provide comprehensive information and reflect different views, in particular highlighting the position adopted by civil society on these issues. # Dissemination of NGO actions and campaigns.

http://socialwatch.org/

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