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In recognition of the increasingly prominent role global civil society networks play in promoting citizen action, addressing common challenges and sector-wide issues and providing opportunities for joint advocacy and campaigning, knowledge sharing and peer learning for civil society organizations, in 2006 CIVICUS has restructured its programmes to bring together the Secretariats of two global civil society networks (the Affinity Group of National Associations and the International Advocacy Organisations Workshop) under one Programme: the Civil Society Networks. The CIVICUS Affinity Group of National Associations National associations of NGOs and NPOs in countries around the world provide and give a collective voice for civil society in their countries and regions. They serve to protect and promote the space for civil society and citizen participation; they play the role of interlocutors between civil society and other sectors and they strive to strengthen civil society’s impact and contribution to sustainable development, democracy, good governance and other public goods. The CIVICUS AGNA is a networks of over fifty national associations launched in the aim of engaging these national associations to foster greater co-operation across national and regional boundaries and facilitate the ability to pursue mutual interests. Learn more Français Español The International Advocacy Non-Governmental Organisations Workshop International advocacy NGOs and networks (IANGOs) are focused on influencing the policies and actions of major players in the trans-national arena: governments, multinational corporations, intergovernmental organisations and other actors that shape responses to trans-national issues. Four years ago, several IANGO leaders began a conversation with CIVICUS and the Hauser Center about creating a space for collective reflection, personal learning and strategic thinking that would enable individual and collective action on common challenges and opportunities. Out of those conversations, an experiment was born—the IANGO Workshop. Learn More The International Non-Governmental Organisations Accountability Charter On the 6th of June 2006, eleven leading international NGOs publicly declared their adoption of the International NGOs Accountability Charter; thereby, undertaking a commitment to comply by the highest common standards of conduct for NGOs working trans-nationally on the promotion of public goods. As a global alliance of civil society organisations, whose mission focuses on the promotion of civil society and citizen action, CIVICUS was designated to operate a small Secretariat for the Accountability Charter. Today, more than sixty international NGO signed the International NGOs Accountability Charter. Read the Charter |