Citizens Civic Participation Initiative (CIVIPI)
In 2022 we launched, Citizens Civic Participation Initiative (CIVIPI) which has continued to impact civil society and community based organisations to carry out civic education activities in their communities. This program keeps improving citizen’s participation and engagement in public life and political processes. Our efforts in this dimension continue to stimulate a new dynamism for civil society and grassroots social movements to assert themselves as crucial instruments for democratic change, participation and social mobilization. The CIVIPI program emphasizes systematic engagement between citizens and their representatives and support communities to organize learn and participate. Here our work to addresses 3 key concerns
- People living in extreme poverty are systematically excluded from decision making processes and institutions and continue to benefit less from development investment
- Systematic denial of peoples’ right to participate erodes the accountability and effectiveness of institutions making government much more pruned to poor decision making, corruption and malpractices that increase poverty
- The exclusion of women and other marginalized groups such as youths, indigenous persons, persons with disabilities from policy making leads to imbalance perspectives in development priorities.
