CIVICUS - Cohesive domestic civil society – is it happening?

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation has recently concluded the 2008-11 phase of its Civil Society Index project, launching 30 new country reports. The reports, which provide a self-critical insight on the state of civil society, paint a worrying picture of gaps within domestic civil society.

Civil society space is seen to be increasingly volatile and contested, with some countries reporting new restrictions and the politicization of debate and others seeing new opportunities created by supranational forces such as EU accession processes.