review the reasons behind the shrinking space civil society encounters in some parts of the world and its steady development …The roles of non-governmental or civil society organizations have become more complex, especially in the context of … changing relationships with nation states and the international community. In many instances, state-civil society relations …

Civil society and civil society organisations (CSOs) are important to development co-operation, both as implementing …) established a work stream on civil society to provide guidance on DAC member support for civil society and a strategy for engaging … with civil society. Under the work stream, a study on how DAC members work with CSOs was launched to identify areas of DAC …