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 CIVICUS
7th World Assembly: Acting Together for a Just World
Glasgow, Scotland, 23rd - 27th May 2007
CIVICUS is widely acknowledged as a representative of global civil
society with solid access to global institutions and influential
policy makers. Consequently, the World Assembly is the global convening
point for civil society and the key stakeholders of civil society,
to enable them to act together for a just world. The aims of the
assembly are to enable and foster constructive engagement between
all civil society actors willing to act and exist together for a
just world; strengthen the existence of citizen participation by
creating a unique and unthreatening environment for activists from
all walks of life to engage with one another; and to create an environment
confined in space and time, where activists from all walks of life
can openly express themselves to educate and be educated.
By focussing on this year's theme of accountability, CIVICUS
aims to enhance transparency and accountability at all levels by:
- Engaging all civil society stakeholders to identify and define
shared principles, policies and practices on the issue of accountability
- Enabling discussion, shared learning and training workshops
that will highlight the issue of accountability so as to improve
the performance and effectiveness of all stakeholders
- Encouraging stakeholders to express and communicate on this
issue with and amongst each other.
The RAPID team will be involved in several workshops during the
Assembly:
Training
workshop - Generating Evidence for Accountability: Perceptions and
Realities
This workshop will focus on how CSOs can generate more credible
evidence and the political analysis skills to use it more effectively.
The workshop will explore two sets of questions: (i) What is meant
by evidence? What are the characteristics of 'credible' evidence?
Is it possible to rank them? What are the sources of credible evidence?
In which ways can the CSOs use evidence most effectively? What impact
is expected from using credible evidence for accountability? (ii)
How can CSO's effectively engage in policy processes? What spaces
are they invited into? How central are those spaces to the main
policy processes? How can CSO's evaluate this? How can they develop
better strategies to engage?
Engagement
workshop - Impact Assessment: Building Results-Based Accountability
Systems for NGDO
This workshop will build on the 2006 CIVICUS World Assembly Workshop
and move forward to stimulate sufficient commitment among NGDOs
towards results-based accountability through mission-driven, internally-led
impact assessment systems. The workshop is designed to critically
reflect on the future needs in institutional innovations as well
as a robust methodological foundation for self-managed and self-steered
impact assessment systems among NGDOs as drivers of results-based
accountability.
- Workshop leader: Anup Dash (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar,
Orissa, India)
- Workshop facilitator: Ruchir Shah (Scottish Council of Voluntary
Organisations, Edinburgh, UK)
- Presenters: Anabel Cruz (Co-Chair, CIVICUS Assembly (ICD, Uruguay));
Osvaldo Elissetche (President, Asociacion Civi Estudios y Proyectos,
Argentina); Naved Chowdhury
(ODI, UK)
Engagement
workshop - Poor people holding service providers to account: practical
possibilities and limitations
The workshop will provide an opportunity for a focused discussion
on the critical issue of enhancing greater demand for voice and
accountability by the poor themselves for better public policy and
practice for poverty eradication. The discussion will also enrich
the search for demand-led governance that is currently preoccupying
governments, donors and CSOs.
- Workshop organisers: World Vision; Inzala Western Cape; ODI
- Speakers: Elena Chiarella; Betty Wamala; Jamie Chivite; Elroy
Edgard Paulus; Fletcher
Tembo
Strategies
for Promoting Participatory Governance: A Multi-Stakeholder Brainstorming
Workshop
This workshop aims to: (i) provide an opportunity for a
group of leading practitioners to learn from one another and reflect
on strategies for promoting participatory governance and, (ii) allow
CIVICUS to draw on the collective wisdom of this group to help guide
this new phase of its Participatory Governance programme. Specific
workshop objectives are to: (i) identify and discuss key current
participatory governance challenges and opportunities; (ii) take
stock of 'cutting edge'participatory governance practices, and;
(ii) brainstorm about strategies for promoting and building civil
society capacity for participatory governance.
DFID
Workshop - Supporting civil society: Donors working with civil society
The purpose of this workshop is to identify effective approaches
and mechanisms for donors to work with civil society, with a focus
on strengthening governance and accountability.
- Organisers: DFID; ODI; National Audit Office; ITAD
- Speakers: Mike Battcock; Fletcher
Tembo; Jenny George; Julian Barr
For further details on the Assembly, go to the CIVICUS website:
www.civicusassembly.org
and download the full
programme (1.5mb)
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