Civic Driven Change - An Update to the basics (2012)
This short guide is a follow-up to 'Concise guide to the basics' of 2012 (see below).
Kees Biekart & Alan Fowler (February 2012)
Civic driven change: a narrative to bring politics back into civil society discourse (2011)
Working paper no. 529, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
Alan Fowler & Kees Biekart (November 2011)
Civic Driven Change - A concise guide to the basics (2009)
This short booklet introduces new ideas about how civil society is taking charge in guiding development by taking key roles in society to respond to the most pressing issues the world faces such as poverty, injustice, conflict and environmental degradation. The authors highlight the special characteristics and elements of the approaches and problem-solving used and led by citizens.
A concise guide to the basics emerges from the initiative of an international core group of practitioners and critical analysts which came together to ask:
What would a citizen-centered story of change in society look like?
In the effort to share knowledge and stimulate discussion about civic action and drivers as a distinct approach to social change within and beyond the aided-development community, the guide aims at both provide the major characteristics of CDC as conceived by the core group, and to place it (CDC) within the current debates on mainstream development thinking.
Kees Biekart & Alan Fowler, April 2009
Aid Memoire: CDC Workshop, Oct. 2008
"A collection of discussions, debates and conclusions made at the Civic Driven Change Initiative Workshop held on October 15, 2008".
This document gathers the presentations, debates and arguments of the CDC Initiative Workshop that took place at the ISS in Oct. 2008. Its purpose is to collect the production of information and knowledge that emerged from the workshop and to help remember the content of it. It contains the discussions and broad conclusions made in a collective effort of further understanding the moving force behind Civic Driven Change. It is highly recommended for preparation for the 2nd workshop on CDC: "The Practice of Civic Driven Change" that will take place again at the ISS on June 22, 2009. For more information on the workshop and how to register, click here.
NEW: Spanish version is now open access available!
El cambio dirigido por la accion civica
Kees Biekart & Alan Fowler (April 2011)
Editorial Icaria, Barcelona
285 p. ISBN 978-84-9888-320-6
Civic Driven Change- Citizen's Imagination in Action
Authors:
- Kees Biekart
- Harry Boyte
- Nilda Bullain
- Evelina Dagnino
- Alan Fowler Alfonso
- Gumucio-Dragon
- Philomena Mwaura
- Shirin Rai
- Rajesh Tandon
- Teivo Teivainen
A product of an eight-month process of collective thinking and debate by a group of international, multi-disciplined and experienced scholar-activists, academics and practitioners, this book captures the esscence of the Civic Driven Change and it's impact on development through it's collection of essays.
To explore the essays in the book, click here.
To order copies of Civic Driven Change - Citizen's Imagination in Action (either in English or Spanish), please e-mail us at biekart[at]iss.nl
Civic Driven Change- Citizen's Imagination in Action
Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart (eds)
October 2008
Institute for Social Studies
ISBN 978-90-812200-3-3
Policy Briefs
Policy briefs have been written on several aspects of CDC.Click on a policy to download the document.
- Policy Brief No. 1 (Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart) 'Introducing Civic Driven Change'
- Policy Brief No. 2 (Alan Fowler and Kees Biekart) 'Civic Driven Change and Aided Development'
- Policy Brief No. 3 (Harry C. Boyte) 'Civic Driven Change: Organizing Civic Action'
- Policy Brief No. 4 (Shirin M. Rai) 'Civic Driven Change: Facing Risk'
- Policy Brief No. 5 (Peter Konijn and Allert van den Ham) 'Civic Driven Change: A new Impetus to the Debate?'
Download: Workshop_on_practice_of_CDC__22_June_2009.pdf (915.95 kB)