In August 2023, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) engaged the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and Bond UK to oversee a collaborative initiative aimed at shaping the future of the FCDO’s centrally managed civil society and civic space programming. WACSI warmly embraced this opportunity for partnership with Bond to facilitate engagements across diverse countries and regions, including the United Kingdom, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, and the Indo-Pacific.
Drawing upon our extensive expertise and experience in working with civil society and governments, we developed a comprehensive framework firmly rooted in the principles of meaningfulness, inclusivity, and intentionality. These guiding principles played a pivotal role in fostering constructive engagement between governments and civil society. We carefully designed engagement sessions to be not only
relevant but also purposeful, yielding outcomes of significant value.