What Does Civil Society Engagement Really Mean? · Global Voices
Solana Larsen

Is civil society really being heard by inter-governmental organizations (IGOs) such as the United Nations, World Bank, or World Trade Organization? CIVICUS, the world alliance for citizen participation, is polling all civil society organizations (CSOs) who have ever engaged with an IGO to get a clear picture. Eventually they wish to develop a scorecard to assess how well different IGOs and processes are working.