Civil Society

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A Users’ Guide to Civil Society Assessments

A Users’ Guide to Civil Society Assessments responds to the growing demand not only from donors, governments and development practitioners but also from a range of civil society organizations (CSOs) to evaluate their performance and capacity to deliver results, and to be accountable to their more

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Civil Society Engagement in PSIA Processes: A Review

Civil Society Engagement in PSIA Processes: A Review, a study commissioned by UNDP and prepared by the Overseas Development Institute, calls for broader national participation in Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) processes. The paper draws on a review of the international literature to more

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Civil Society and UNDP in Sri Lanka: Partnerships in Crisis Situation

Civil Society and UNDP in Sri Lanka: Partnerships in Crisis Situation documents the ways in which civil society actors, especially at the community level, emerged as significant partners in crisis response and recovery following the Ceasefire Agreement and the tsunami in Sri Lanka. The civil more

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Donors' Civil Society Strategies and Partnership Modalities

The Donors’ Civil Society Strategies and Partnership Modalities Resource Guide (2012) is intended as a brief, internal, user-friendly guide, introducing key civil society strategies of major donors, looking in particular at donors’ definitions of civil society; donors’ approaches for supporting more

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Engaging with the Urban Poor and their Organizations for Poverty Reduction and Urban Governance

There is a hugely important poverty reduction process in urban areas that is rarely noticed by international agencies and hardly ever documented – the successes of particular urban poor groups in what they do and in how they negotiate change in their relationship with local government agencies. Of more

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Going Local to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals

Going Local to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals describes the experiences of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and UNDP in supporting local efforts to achieve the MDGs, by promoting local ownership, understanding local needs and trends, and fostering collaboration between different more

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Participatory Civil Society Assessments: Experiences from the Field

Participatory Civil Society Assessments: Experiences from the Field documents and analyzes the experiences of five UNDP Country Offices and civil society partners in Cyprus, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mozambique, Viet Nam, and Uruguay, in implementing the CIVICUS Civil Society more

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Public Oversight of the Security Sector: A Handbook for Civil Society Organizations

The recent era of the ‘War on Terror’ has put at risk processes of democratization and the status of human rights in developing countries. Civil society should stay engaged to ensure that each nation’s security sector is a rights-respecting service working for security as a public good. This more

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Synthesis Report: Findings and Recommendations from a Seven Country Study of UN Engagement in Poverty Reduction and National Development Strategies

This Synthesis Report reviews the role of the United Nations Country Teams (UNCTs) in Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper  (PRSP) processes and, more broadly, in National Development Strategies (NDS). The central focus is on PRSPs. The paper draws on a set of seven country papers that were at the more

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The Future of Participatory Civil Society Assessments: A Conceptual Analysis

Building on the progress made in civil society assessments since 2000, there is a common understanding that the time is right for a next generation of assessment tools. These new tools will address important fundamental issues of philosophy, principle and methods. The Future of Participatory Civil more

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The Role of CSOs in MDG based National Development Strategies: Training Modules

This training course, The Role of CSOs in MDG based National Development Strategies, provides guidance to UN Country Teams (UNCTs) and their development partners on the key areas and entry points for working with civil society to design an MDG-based national development strategy. It is a tool to more

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The Role of Legal Reform in Supporting Civil Society: An Introductory Primer

The Role of Legal Reform in Supporting Civil Society: An Introductory Primer discusses the trends in legal and regulatory frameworks governing the establishment of civil society organizations, and their space and scope to function in public. This paper provides (1) an introductory overview of the more

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Towards a Peoples' Multilateralism: The UN, Development Networks and Civil Society

Towards a Peoples' Multilateralism: The UN, Development Networks and Civil Society  aims to review and synthesize the main literature, arguments, theories and proposals coming from academia, civil society, politicians and commentators on the “new multilateralism” – a complex, multilayered more

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UNDP Country-Level Engagement with Civil Society: A Global Snapshot

UNDP Country-Level Engagement with Civil Society: A Global Snapshot presents a overview of country-level engagement with civil society, and draws on responses from 102 Country Offices (72% of all offices) to a 2008 global survey that asked about present engagement. As such, the snapshot illustrates more

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UNDP Strategy on Civil Society and Civil Engagement

The purpose of the Strategy on Civil Society and Civic Engagement is to provide UNDP with a framework for both empowering and engaging with civil society. It seeks to focus on the need for reinvigorated efforts, as part of the agenda for organizational change, towards innovative relationships with more

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UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: A Policy of Engagement

UNDP and Civil Society Organization: A Policy of Engagement provides set of principles to guide UNDP engagement with CSOs, and highlights policy and programmatic implications. more

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UNDP-CSO Partnerships for Conflict Prevention: Experiences from the Field

UNDP-CSO Partnerships for Conflict Prevention: Experiences from the Field is an initial inquiry into how CSOs and UNDP can engage more effectively in preventing violent conflict and sustaining peace. This publication serves to improve learning and practice in these areas by studying five cases more

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Voice and Accountability for Human Development

UNDP Corporate Strategy, Voice and Accountability for Human Development, charts a course to revitalize the engagement of UNDP with civil society and its organizations. It seeks to bring about a fundamental shift in the relationship, geared towards recognizing the evolving nature and growing more

Voice, Accountability and Civic Engagement: A Conceptual Overview

Voice, Accountability and Civic Engagement: A Conceptual Overview lays out recent shifts in the broad intellectual terrain around voice, accountability and civic engagement, with an emphasis on how this relates to the development field, and how it impacts on the positioning of UNDP programming and more

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UNDP Engagement with Civil Society

UNDP’s three priority development focus areas in this field are to invest in civil society and civic engagement; facilitate citizen action for democratic governance and development; and strengthen civic engagement for multilateralism and human development.


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Key Policy Documents

UNDP Corporate Strategy on Civil Society and Civic Engagement (2012) | French | Spanish | Arabic

 

Voice and Accountability for Human Development: A UNDP Global Strategy to Strengthen Civil Society and Civic Engagement (2009) | French | Spanish

Partnership in Action: UNDP Engagement with Civil Society (2008)

UNDP and Civil Society Organizations: A Policy of Engagement (2001) | French | Spanish

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