With over 17,000 members from 189 countries, CIVICUS is a global alliance and network of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.
We strategically convene diverse groups and coalitions and support civil society to challenge unjust social norms and build greater public trust.
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When we join forces in our diversity, we build meaningful momentum to tackle challenges facing humanity. CIVICUS is a worldwide community of informed, inspiring, and committed organisations and individuals. We work together to strengthen civil society and citizen action for a more just, inclusive, and sustainable world.
Affinity Group of National Associations (AGNA)
The AGNA network brings together national associations and regional platforms from around the world to foster greater cooperation across boundaries. It aspires to find innovation in how civil society organisations collaborate.
By strengthening the power of people to organise, mobilise and take action, AGNA builds meaningful opportunities for networks to together participate in and influence global governance institutions and processes.
Learn MoreVuka! Coalition for Civic Action
Vuka! is a global coalition of 225 civil society organisations allied together to help secure critical wins to regain civic space and incubate new forms of resistance. To fulfil its mission, Vuka! seeks to coordinate civil society responses to reclaim civic space and mobilize diverse civil society sectors through effectiveness, resilience, and incubation.
Learn MoreYouth Action Team
CIVICUS Youth Action Team perceives civic space as the final frontier and wants to make sure the youth have the tools to fully engage here. As a place for co-creation and designing innovative projects, the YAT sets its own agenda and work plan to make sure they develop projects in the areas that are currently more critical for young activists, social innovators, and human right defenders.
Learn MoreInnovation for Change (I4C)
Innovation for Change (I4C) is a global network of people and organisations who work together to protect civic space and overcome restrictions to our basic freedoms of assembly, association, and speech.
It features seven interconnected regional hubs working on and offline across Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, the Pacific and South Asia.
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