Shaping Civic Space

Global civic space is shrinking. Citizen groups and NGOs are not passive victims of shrinking civic space, nor do they simply adapt under tightening control. Groups can actively identify still-open spaces for influence and constructive action, enter into them, and work to expand them. Observing such spaces and creative agency to expand them is vital in a time of contraction.

Shaping Civic Space: identifying and expanding civil society spaces under authoritarianism. A comparative study of the characteristics of spaces that remain open to civil society groups in China, Turkey and Iran. In development.