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    ActionAid and the Centre for Policy Studies cordially invite you to a seminar:

     

    The Challenges facing Civil Society: Perspectives from South Africa, Brazil and India

     

    In India, Brazil and South Africa alike, organised civil society played a pivotal role in bringing progressive forces (liberation movements and workers’ parties) to power: from the Nehru victory in 1952 to the ANC’s ascendancy in 1994 to Lula’s PT in 2002. It was assumed that the resulting regimes would give civil society organisations a greater voice and CSOs would be able to effect fundamental transformations in government policy direction. However, early and perhaps naive optimism gave way to a phase of disillusionment and in some cases disengagement, as the task of influencing powerful parties at the helm of strong states proved harder than CSOs had initially expected, and both foreign and domestic interests pushed governments to move in a neoliberal direction. This seminar examines lessons from all three countries about what strategies CSOs have adopted to move from disillusionment to action, and how they are redefining their vision and expectations of their role in bringing about change.

     

    v  Dr. Fiona White, CPS Senior Researcher, will provide an overview of civil society in South Africa in the Mbeki era, focusing on the strengths and weaknesses within the sector itself.

     

    v  John Samuel, founder of India’s National Centre for Advocacy Studies and currently Asia Director for ActionAid International, will comment on how Indian civil society has changed gears since the Congress party embraced neoliberal reforms in the early 1990s.

     

    v  Adriano Campolina, ActionAid’s Americas director, will talk about the role of Brazilian civil society in bringing the PT to power in 2002 and experiences since then.

     

    • Date    : Wednesday, 11 November, 2009 
      Time    : 4 for 4.30pm - 6pm
    • Venue :
      1st Floor Maths Centre
      28 Juta Street, Corner Henri
      Braamfontein, Johannesburg
      Tel: 011 401 4003

     

    Please RSVP to seminar.jhb@actionaid.org

     

     Drinks and snacks will be served after the seminar

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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