CIVICUS core 2018-2020 + 2021-2023
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CIVICUS is an international CSO that strengthens civil society globally. Sida has financed CIVICUS since 2004 and the organisation has received core support since 2008. Sidas contribution in the current agreement is 70 million SEK in core support to implement the strategic plan during 1 July 2018 - 30 June 2023. The purpose of the intervention is to strengthe...
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CIVICUS is an international CSO that strengthens civil society globally. Sida has financed CIVICUS since 2004 and the organisation has received core support since 2008. Sidas contribution in the current agreement is 70 million SEK in core support to implement the strategic plan during 1 July 2018 - 30 June 2023. The purpose of the intervention is to strengthen citizen action and civil society toward a more just, inclusive, and sustainable world by: (1) defending civic freedoms and democratic values, (2) strengthening the power of people to organise, mobilise, and take action, and (3) empowering a more accountable, effective and innovative civil society (CIVICUS' three strategic goals). The total budget of the intervention, during the four year period 1 July 2018 - 30 June 2022, is 323 million SEK, of which CIVICUS' own funds amount to approximately 10 million SEK. CIVICUS has today 17 donors, both multi- and bilateral donors such as the EU, the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland, and foundations such as Open Society Foundations and Mott Foundation. About 164 million SEK is planned to be forwarded to cooperation partners. Within each strategic goal are found a number of activities that illustrates CIVICUS planned operations. Under goal 1 is found, e.g. the State of Civil Society Report (an annual report that assesses global trends connected to civil society and is disseminated broadly and described as their flagship publication), CIVICUS Monitor (spreads knowledge about civil society in real time in a large number of countries to identify threats and opportunities for civil society), advocacy work vis-à-vis the UN (above all to present the view of civil society within the scope of the Universal Periodic Review related to UN’s Human Rights Council), Crisis Response Fund (funding of urgent activities to protect civil society’s freedom of assembly and association) and Civic Space Initiative (coordination and promotion of creative responses to threats against civil society caused by challenges of shrinking space). Within goal 2 are found, for instance, International Civil Society Week (meeting place for a broad spectrum of actors within civil society and other actors to develop joint responses to global challenges), Action for Sustainable Development (grassroots initiative and platform to identify and mobilize civil society to contribute to the implementation and follow-up of Agenda 2030), DataShift (citizen-led gathering of data for accountability with reference to Agenda 2030), and Mobilisation Lab (facilitates mutual learning for actors that manages communications campaigns). Goal 3, finally, contains, for instance, capacity development (through other actors, such as universities, and through the digitalization of tools), Innovation for Change (previously known as Civil Society Innovation Initiative which Sida co-created mainly together with USAID and civil society, and which aims to strengthen regional civil society platforms to develop innovative responses to challenges in the face of shrinking space, through broadened partnerships among other things) and the Global Standard for CSO accountability (international code of conduct developed by a CSO-alliance to increase transparency and legitimacy among CSOs).
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Below follows a very brief selection of main achievements and programmatic highlights, that support from Sida has contributed to during the agreement period of January 2018 - June 2023. As achievments span over two strategy periods the results below are divided in three areas that corresponds to both strategies by areas of work rather than per objective; 1. KNOWLEDGE GENERATION: CIVICUS continues to produce and disseminate information on, and monitor civic space and helps legitimise action: SIDA core funding has enabled CIVICUS to invest resources in the two flagship reports produced annually; the State of Civil Society Report and People Power Under Attack report. It also provided a foundation to expand the depth and reach of the knowledge products CIVICUS Lens and CIVICUS Monitor. These products allow CIVICUS to generate timely knowledge and analyses on civil society actions in relation to civic and democratic space. CIVICUS assess that the quantity and quality of the reports provide CIVICUS opportunities to center public discourse on civic space and the impacts of civil society action, placing the need to defend and support civil society higher on the policy and political agenda. The CIVICUS Lens was initiated in January 2022. Its an online platform where interviews with civil society activists, leaders and experts are featured, providing timely analysis of civil society issues and trends from a civil society perspective. 2. TARGETED ADVOCACY: Setting norms about civic space at the UN on the Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly: CIVICUS has UN hubs in both New York and Geneva. SIDA core funding mainly supported the UN hub in Geneva and, for example, contributed to supporting the United Nations Human Rights Committee in crafting General Comment 37 (GC37) on the right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly. The adopted comment details of the Right of Peaceful Assembly empowers civil society to practice this right and monitor compliance by states. This was the result of 10 years of advocacy, now followed by efforts to disseminate and an put it into practice through the Vuka! Know your rights Handbook, an initiative to raise awareness and provide practical guidance to civil society actors that is available in several languages. 3. SOLIDARITY: Release and/or acquittal of arbitrarily imprisoned civil society activists: Supporting civil society, organisations and activists, in countries with deteriorating civic space remains fraught with challenges, especially in relation to ensuring the safety and security of all parties. SIDA core funding has enabled CIVICUS to invest resources towards targeted advocacy for releasing arbitrarily imprisoned civil society activists through the #StandAsMyWitness (#SAMW) campaign, first launched on Nelson Mandela Day in 2020. #SAMW builds partnerships and amplifies voices calling for the release of unjustly imprisoned civil society activists. The campaign works closely with family members, colleagues and lawyers of the profiled activist, who keep the campaign team updated with relevant dates, events and advocacy opportunities. However, campaigns continue also after the release and/or acquittals. For example this year, two of the defenders released were shot dead in broad daylight. In response, more than 100 human rights organisations including CIVICUS called for compliance with international obligations to guarantee access to justice and measures of non-repetition. Other examples are the accompaniment of activists during legal proceedings and associated campaigning and linking up released activists with groups that provide psycho-social support.
Strategiperiod 2017 - 2022: Under perioden 2018 - 2022 rapporterade CIVICUS på strategisk plan 2017-22 med det övergripande målet att; Bidra till en global gemenskap av informerade, inspirerade, och engagerade medborgare som aktivt konfronterar de utmaningar som mänskligheten står inför. Den inkluderade 3 underliggande strategiska mål; - försvaret av medborgerliga friheter och demokratiska värderingar, - stärkandet av människors makt att organisera sig, - mobilisera sig och agera, samt - stärkandet av ett mer ansvarstagande, effektivt och innovativt civilsamhälle. Ytterligare ett mål tillkom under 2021; - vara en möjliggörande organisation, eftersom det är ett antaget strategiskt mål att investera i operativa förbättringar och systemförbättringar. Strategiperiod 2022-2027: År 2022 antog CIVICUS en ny strategisk plan för 202227, som reflekterar lärdomar från tidigare strategiperiod och som skiljer sig från föregående strategi med 1 övergripande mål; "Stärka det civila samhällets och medborgerliga handlingskraften för ett utökat medborgerligt och demokratiskt utrymme". De 5 strategiska målen (formulerade snarare som arbetsområden) kommer alla att bidra till det övergripande målet och utgör grunden för kontinuerlig uppföljning och kommunikation av lärdomar och resultat; - Generera aktuell kunskap och analys - Stärka det offentliga samtalet och förstärka berättelser - Samordna riktat påverkansarbete - Bygga motkraft hos de mest drabbade grupperna - Bidra till starkare ekosystem för nödsituationer och hållbart stöd Den sista årsrapporten för instansen rapportera mot den nya strategiska planen.
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