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Civil society organisations
This section highlights the role of civil society organisations in promoting effective governance in the Asia Pacific region.
Including non-government organisations, trade unions, faith-based organisations, watchdogs, indigenous peoples movements and foundations, they hold governments' accountable to implementing good governance, such as legal reform, counter-corruption, human rights and local governance.
CSOs and their power
- Strengthening civil society to build demand for better governance in the Pacific
- Religious institutions as alternative structures in post-conflict Solomon Islands?
- Leadership models in the Pacific
- Blowing the conch shell: Survey of churches engagement in service provision & governance in the Solomon Islands
- Securing the future? An exploration of prevalence & sustainability of community based organisations in Nepal
- Policy engagement - how civil society can be more effective
- The role of churches in governance and public performance in Papua New Guinea
- Social capital: reviewing the concept and its policy implications
- Social Accountability
- Accountability for empowerment: dilemmas facing non-governmental organisations
- State-civil society relations in the development context
- Civil society and global governance
- Press release and speech on the role of civil society to combat corruption in the era of globalisation
- Australian support for civil society in Indonesia
CSO watchdogs
Getting funding
Resources & toolkits
- NGO law and governance: a resource book
- 100 tips 100 tools for better governed NGOs
- Best practices in community development
- International budget project
- Tools for policy impact: a handbook for researchers
- Institutions and the political economy of corruption in developing countries
- Commonwealth Foundation civil society in the new millennium country reports
- Microfinance and disaster management