Thursday, May 16, 2019

Horn of Africa Needs To Make More Use of Civil Society

The Institute for Security Studies published on 15 May 2019 a report titled "The Horn of Africa Should Improve Citizen Engagement."

Efforts by the African Union and Intergovernmental Authority on Development to cooperate have been largely devoid of citizen participation. They both have a mandate to include civil society organizations in their planning, but have usually ignored them. The report argues it is time to include them.