Important: Event is only for Global Focus' members.
Global Focus’ Civic Space Working Group invites Global Focus members and its Steering Committee to a civil society meeting for us to put forward tangible recommendations to the Danish efforts to protect and enhance civic space globally. The civil society meeting will take place Thursday 13 December from 9:00 to 15:30.
Format
Whole-day meeting with participants from Danish development and humanitarian organisations interested in civic space. Prior to the meeting, participants will receive a document with recommendations to strategies for civil society organisations, the private sector and the Danish government, which will be the point of departure for the discussions at the meeting. The draft recommendations are compiled by Global Focus’ Civic Space Working Group, based on inputs from the series of events “Civil Society Strikes Back”, at Global Focus in the fall of 2018, on how to protect and enhance civic space. At these events, inputs have been collected from global civil society partners under different thematic perspectives on strategies and concrete recommendations to Danish actors. The conclusions from the civil society meeting will be guiding for Danish actors in the future including offering detailed recommendations on how the Ministry of Foreign Affairs should implement its newly introduced internal working document on civic space. On 6-7 March, Global Focus’ Civic Space Working Group and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will co-host an international conference in Copenhagen, where key actors will commit to recommendations and international cooperation to enhance civic space globally.
Target group
Relevant employees and managers working on civic space within Danish development and humanitarian organisations well placed to input into and agree on the recommendations. We recommend around two people from each organization, e.g. an employee working on civic space who will attend the whole day and a manager, with mandate to take the decision to agree to the recommendations, will arrive in the afternoon.
Program
9:00-9:15: Welcome and introductions
9:15-9:30: Presentation of recommendation paper
9:30-10:00: Thematic perspectives from members of the working group and take-aways from events
10:00-10:30: Inputs and questions
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:00: New/changed recommendations discussed in groups, (strategic tools and content)
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-14:00: New/changed recommendations discussed in groups, (strategic tools and content)
14:00-15:30: Decision making and plenary discussion on final recommendations.
Practical information
Registration via Global Focus’ website. Deadline for registration: 12 December 12:00 pm.
For more information, kindly write Civil Society Advisor, Sara Katrine Brandt,
The event will take place at Rysensteensgade 3, 1564 Copenhagen V.
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