Civil society
Role of civil Society actors from the Rising Powers in advocating for the adoption of social and environmental safeguards; national debates on aid and development cooperation; accountability.
About rising powers and civil society
Many of the Rising Power countries have an active and dynamic Civil Society, although the degree to which this is accepted by their governments varies. Civil Society actors and activists have had an important role in shaping many of the innovative social policies for which countries such as Brazil and India are well-known for. Civil Society actors from the Rising Powers often have a strong tradition in promoting rights, and are becoming increasingly aware of their role in advocating for the adoption of social and environmental safeguards as their governments and private sector expand into the African continent and beyond. At the same time, they also have a role in stimulating national debates on aid and development cooperation, and promoting the need for accountability. This section examines the role of Civil Society from the Rising Powers.Recommended reading
- Civil Society at Crossroads: Shifts, Challenges, Options?
- Civil society at crossroads, 2012
- What are the roles, capacities, contributions and limitations of civil society in changing local and global contexts? This report is an output from the The Civil Society at Crossroads initiative in which regional focal institutions wo...
- Citizen engagements in a globalizing world
- J. Gaventa; R. Tandon / Department for International Development, UK, 2010
- As the impacts of global forces on everyday life are becoming increasingly apparent, the authors of this introductory chapter to an edited volume ask: if we believe in the ideals of democracy, what are the implications when these exte...
- Engaging BRICS: Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society
- L. John / Oxfam India, 2012
- The emergence of BRICS represents an important change in the global political economy. There is anticipation that the BRICS – building on their own lessons and initiatives – will play a progressive role on economic and soc...
Latest Documents
- Rising Powers in International Development: an annotated bibliography
- M. Younis; J. Constantine; E. Wach; L. Navas-Alemán; A. Shankland; A. Yadav / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- The Rising Powers – a category that includes the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as other key countries such as Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia – are establishing themselves as an influential pre...
- Soft Power? The Means and Ends of Russian Influence
- Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2012
- Different countries possess soft power for different reasons. This is a summary of an event held at Chatham House on 31 March 2011. Participants from the EU and US considered the mechanisms that Russia has devised to influence and att...
- Looking at OECD aid effectiveness and fragmentation
- Development Assistance Committee, OECD, 2012
- This edition of OECD's annual Development Co-operation Report provides key statistics and analysis on the latest trends in international aid. It reports back on the Accra High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness and also addresses fragme...
- Global civil society: shifting powers in a shifting world
- Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, 2012
- This series of papers explores the formation of civil society internationally and its relation to democratisation and development. Papers specifically look at social movements in a neo-liberal era - ethnographies of local activists in...
- Civil society in changing contexts
- Civil society at crossroads, 2012
- What are the roles, capacities, contributions and limitations of civil society in changing local and global contexts? This report is an output from the The Civil Society at Crossroads initiative in which regional focal institutions wo...
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