FCDO Engagement Report on shaping the Future of Centrally Managed Civil Society and Civic Space Programming
In August 2023, the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) engaged the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and Bond…
Theme: Civic Space
YWF – Kenya joins forces with Atlas Movement during ‘Survival Sundays’ in Nairobi
On Sunday, May 5, 2024, at the Mageuzi Hub in the leafy suburbs of Kilimani in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, several…
Listening and Responding to Bangladesh’s Citizens During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This report summarizes findings from research designed to assess how and how effectively different levels of the Bangladesh government listened…
Activating Spaces, Scaling Up Voices: Community-based Monitoring and Planning of Health Services in Maharashtra, India
From 2007, the Indian government’s National Health Mission (NHM) supported civil society networks to carry out large-scale participatory monitoring to…
Sandwich Strategies Explained: Expanding Citizen Action
Policy reformers often make bold promises to improve government responsiveness to citizen demands. Such proclamations often fall short, get diverted,…
Willingness of Zambians to sacrifice democratic principles during a pandemic: The case of COVID-19
What is the impact of a pandemic on citizens’ willingness to sacrifice democratic principles? Using the novel COVID-19 pandemic as…
Building Bridges Amid Division: Understanding America’s Conflict Dynamics
In this podcast, AfP Executive Director Liz Hume discusses identity-based grievances, polarization, and social cohesion in the U.S. While conflict…
Civil Society in Ukraine’s Restoration: A Guide to CSOs Mobilizing for a Marshall Plan
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainian civil society mobilized like never before. In the area of humanitarian crisis…
Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Front
In this paper, we argue that Ukrainian anticorruption is mission-critical to the integrity and security of the rules-based international order.…
Accountability and Transparency in Ukrainian Recovery and Reconstruction
The scale of Russia’s devastation and destruction in Ukraine will eventually have to be matched by a recovery and reconstruction…