Civic Driven Change Initiative

Background on the CDC Initiative

If states, markets and NGO's 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.


 

Civic Driven Change- Citizen's Imagination in Action

One of the outcomes of the initial phase was the publication of the book Civic Driven Change - Citizen's Imagination in Action. The book brings together essays inspired by the authors' personal experiences in development on civic driven change while engaging with the academic topics and debates surrounding the issue.

A product of an eight-month process of collective thinking and debate by a group of international, multi-disciplined and experienced scholar-activists, academics and practitioners, this book captures the essence of the Civic Driven Change and it's impact on development through it's collection of essays.

Authors:

  • Kees Biekart
  • Harry Boyte
  • Nilda Bullain
  • Evelina Dagnino
  • Alan Fowler
  • Alfonso Gumucio-Dragon
  • Philomena Mwaura
  • Shirin Rai
  • Rajesh Tandon
  • Teivo Teivainen

Civic Driven Change- Citizen's Imagination in Action
Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart (eds)
October 2008
Institute for Social Studies
ISBN 978-90-812200-3-3

To order hard copies of the book, please mail biekart@]iss.nl

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