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29 May

START: 29-05-2019

ORGANIZER: ISS
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Invitation: Civil society dynamics: shaping roles, navigating contexts. The case of India

Panel discussion at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) to investigate the (im)possibilities of the advocacy role played by civil society organizations. The policy program ‘Dialogue and Dissent’ of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs aims to strengthen the advocacy roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) in the South. Facilitation of this demands first and foremost to ‘start from the South’: acknowledging and linking ...
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