Civil society’s role in the 2030 agenda: Political adversary or docile partner? A review of Civil Society, Peace, and Power.

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-261
Author(s):  
Andreas T. Hirblinger
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Political Adversary

Governments and Civil Society Advancing Climate Agendas: The Case of Jamaica

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Milano
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
National Development ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Regional Study ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean

The approval of the Paris Agreement established a new global regimen in matters of climate change. Latin American and Caribbean countries participate in additional processes regarding environmental sustainability, including the national development of the 2030 Agenda and the implementation of the Escazu Agreement. These and other instruments recognize the importance of an effective engagement with civil society stakeholders for the fulfillment of environmental sustainability goals. This study is based on the IDB Groups accumulated technical experience in matters of citizen participation. It identifies best practices employed in Jamaica to progress in climate commitments with the inclusion of civil society key players. The complete regional study, which includes the experiences of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, and Peru is available at: https://publications.iadb.org/en/governments-and-civil-society-advancing-climate-agendas

scholarly journals Territorial and Sectoral Distribution of the ODA Gross Disbursements Channelled Using Civil Society Organizations: Czechia Compared with Other Central European Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Eva Kovarova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Maximum Level ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Central European ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Development Policies

Civil society organizations represent important actors in delivery of development assistance. International community recognizes them not only as actors on their own, but also as the contractors of the official governmental programmes and projects. Their involvement in development policies of donor countries has been especially emphasized since the 1990s, and it is generally regarded as valuable in fulfilment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Governments of the Central European Countries also cooperate with civil society organizations in development policies, and use them inter alia as the channels for aid delivery. However, the level in which governments use their services in delivery of the Official Development Assistance differs. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify and evaluate territorial and sectoral distribution of the ODA gross disbursements of Czechia channelled using civil society organizations, and to compare this distribution with the ones found in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Through civil society organizations Czechia has allocated nearly 1⁄4 of its total volume of ODA gross disbursements related to individual programmes and projects during the period between 2014 and 2018. However, the Hungarian government cooperated with civil society organizations marginally, and their participation reached a maximum level of 6% in 2018. Civil society organizations, participating in development policies of the Central European Countries, were involved mainly in the programmes and projects concerning social infrastructure and services, which complies with their traditional and most common roles.

Legitimation from the Top to Civil Society: Politico-Cultural Change in Eastern Europe

1991 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Di Palma
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Universal Theory ◽  
East European ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
Proper Weight ◽  
Political Adversary

Communism has collapsed in Eastern Europe because the regimes, no ionger justified by their Soviet hegemon, lost confidence in their “mandate from heaven.” Domestically and internationally discredited, East European regimes had traditionally shielded themselves behind a principle of legitimation from the top that saw communism as the global fulfillment of a universal theory of history. Once the theory became utterly indefensible, a crippling legitimacy vacuum ensued. Reacting against that theory, East European dissent, and a civil society of sorts, survived under communism not just as an underground political adversary but as a visible cultural and existential counterimage of communism. This fact must be given proper weight when assessing the capacity of civil society to rebound in postcommunist Eastern Europe.

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