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Empowering the CIVICUS Alliance

Johannesburg, November 2012

CIVICUS AllianceCIVICUS aims to strengthen members and partners’ engagement within the CIVICUS network building on CIVICUS’ founding principle of being a global alliance.

CIVICUS Networks and Constituencies

• We have identified 46 different networks/constituencies/working groups managed by CIVICUS, or in which CIVICUS is actively engaged.

– Formalised grouping of organisations and individuals who share common focus on thematic areas. The majority of these are through the formalized projects active at CIVICUS, such as CSI, PG or LTA.

– These may be closed communities of practices, where partners have been specifically selected to participate, such as the AGNA group or the Eurasia network, where certain key actors are selected as partners according to specific needs and priorities.

– Other ‘networks’ are much more open to anyone interested in the theme or focal area, and serve as open platforms for dialogue and exchanges. These include social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook (where both CIVICUS and EHHR have large followings), or blogs and websites, and newsletter subscribers.

46 different networks

The 46 different networks/ constituencies/working groups:

•Internal networks•Stakeholders•External communications•Projects/networks within CIVICUS work areas•CSO campaigns•Localised/ regional networks•United Nations linked NGO networks

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Internal networks

Board and past board members X 13 current members -

20 past (from 2005)

CIVICUS staff and former staffs

X 39 currentPast TBD

Paid Membership base of CIVICUS X 291 current paid

members

1835 expired

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StakeholdersDonors and Resource Mobilisation contacts X 22 donor

orgsTask team on CSO Development Effectiveness and Enabling Environment

X

40 orgs

Community of Democracies (CIVICUS is member of Civil Society Space Group)

X

10 Govts

Lifeline fund

X 13 Govts

National and local governments

X TBD

Multilateral orgs

X TBD

Private sector X TBD

World Economic Forum: Davos CSO network (NGO Advisory Group)

X TBD

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External Communications

e-CIVICUS subscribers X

6561 subscribers

CIVICUS Facebook likes X

6153 likes

CIVICUS Twitter followers X

2193 followers

Media contacts X 4257 contacts

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Projects/ networks within CIVICUS work areasAffinity Group of National Associations (AGNA)Civil Society Index (CSI)

Participatory Governance (PG)

Legitimacy, Transparency and Accountability (LTA)

Civil Society Watch (CSW)

International Advocacy NGO (IANGO)

Eurasia IDEA network (Secretariat)Every Human Has Rights (EHHR)(Secretariat)

XXX X X

X X X

58 members

90 organisations

300 in COP

75 orgs in 2011 webinars

6759 subscribers 19 orgs present at

2011 WA

26 networks/ orgs

200 contacts

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World Assembly X 2121 orgs and individuals

CIVICUS Gender and diversity work X 100 contacts

INGO Accountability Charter X TBD

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CSO campaigns

Open Forum and Development Effectiveness GFGBetter Aid platform Better Aid Coordinating Group

X XX

30 orgs

900 orgs40 orgs

Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP)Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA)Barefoot for human rights (Completed/ Inactive)Africa 4 Haiti (Completed/ Inactive)UNDP photo competition (Completed/ Inactive)OSCAF (Francophone)Lusophone anti-poverty international group

X

X

XX

XX XX

150 orgs

37 orgs and ind.

TBDTBD

50 orgs30 orgs

Localised/ regional networks

South African Forum for International Solidarity (SAFIS)

SA Right 2 Know campaign

X

X

105 orgs and ind.

Over 400 national

orgs

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United Nations linked NGO networks CONGORio+ 20 NGO constituencyUN Development Programme Working group (Chair, Civil Society Advisory Committee) Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the UN (Board member)UN Department of Public Information (Chair, NGO/ DPI Executive Committee)UN Development Cooperation Forum(Member, Advisory Group) UN Economic and Social Council UN Volunteers/ IYV +10 (Communications Working Group)

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

TBD

900 orgs

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

TBD

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Feedback from Members and Partners – end 2011

• CIVICUS ran a consultation in 5 languages in August – Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and English.

• 89 Members and partners answered the complete survey.

Feedback from Members and Partners – end 2011

Members value been part of a global network and want CIVICUS to:– Communicate more in: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic.– Strengthen CIVICUS presence at a regional level– Establish a more decentralised network structure– Undertake outreach through partnerships with local organisationsRespondents suggested:– Decentralisation of the CIVICUS secretariat by establishing regional

representation offices / champions– Reaching out and engaging more with civil society organisations/networks in

the regions– Organising regional events such as seminars, meetings, conferences and other

fora to strengthen the regional networks– Localised communications campaigns

Network management needs

The CIVICUS secretariat will be focusing on the following priority areas necessary to address networking and network management needs:1.Database improvement2.Network Analysis3.Communication analysis4.Analysis of horizontal connectivity within networks5.New Communication Strategy6.New membership strategy7.National Representatives/Regional and thematic ambassadors8.Organizational network management strategy and procedures

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Affinity Group of National Associations (AGNA)

- 60 members around the world.- All are national platforms/ associations with

membership base of local country organisations.- Many have been silent in the past: bad contact details,

lack of clear benefits from the network.- Now reengaging all and bringing them into the network

as active participants: through newsletters, better communication, active engagement, clear benefits

package and engagements with CIVICUS.

Key questions for AGNA• How do we revive old networks and neglected

partners? • How to make the network fully participatory and

all members engaged? • How to get them to sell CIVICUS to their

members to bring them into the alliance? • How to properly use them as a core network for

CIVICUS? • How to broker cooperation between two

competing/ similar networks?