Background on the CDC Initiative

If states, markets and NGOs fail to bring about change and social justice, then who will?

Can citizens come up with new perspectives on social change? Are civic driven changes a potential solution to global political problems? They might. In fact, they are...

The Civic Driven Change (CDC) Initiative is an ongoing process of thinking, debating and writing aimed at examining and sharing a perspective of change in societies that arises from its citizens rather than states or markets. It is supported by a group of Dutch private aid agencies (Hivos, Cordaid, ICCO, Oxfam-Novib, SNV, IKV-Pax Christi) that value the potential of creating a strong civic narrative which extends beyond local conditions and circumstances.

The initiative is coordinated and hosted by the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague (Netherlands), represented by Dr. Kees Biekart and Dr. Alan Fowler, and the process is facilitated by Context, international cooperation, represented by Fons van der Velden.

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