Mission:
CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.
Vision:
A worldwide community of informed, inspired, committed citizens engaged in confronting the challenges facing humanity.
CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people. It recognizes that for effective and sustainable civic participation to occur, citizens must enjoy rights of free association and be able to engage all sectors of society.
Values:
- Justice and Equality - CIVICUS believes in the equality and dignity of every person, and that all people should be free to exercise their rights as citizens as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Reciprocity - CIVICUS exists to ensure that people treat one another with the respect with which they themselves wish to be treated. Civil society cannot thrive without mutual respect.
- Knowledge - CIVICUS recognises that to increase its global awareness of civil society and before it can assist or take action, it needs to form alliances with other concerned bodies to increase its influence and knowledge.
- Vision - CIVICUS is realistic about conflict in today's world, but remains optimistic that most people, organisations, governments and businesses will work together for the benefit of all.
- Principled Courage - CIVICUS will always promote civil justice and pledges to act in a manner that honours the principles of democratic civil society.
The three main objectives that inform our mission are:
- Civic Existence - to promote the rights of citizens to organise and act collectively towards defined goals for the public good.
- Civic Expression - to increase the effectiveness and improve the governance of civil society organisations, as well as their capacity to set and achieve their individual and collective goals.
- Civic Engagement - Engagement - to foster interaction between civil society and other institutions in order to increase the voice of citizens in public life.
Staff Members
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