C4D and Civic Education

The overall goal of civic education is to promote civic engagement and support democratic and participatory governance. The idea behind civic education is to promote the demand for good governance (i.e. an informed and engaged public), as a necessary complement to efforts to improve the practice of good governance. Civic education has been used to address a wide variety of political and governance issues (e.g. corruption, civic apathy or post-conflict reconciliation) as well as important social issues.*

This section looks at the role played by C4D initiatives in supporting and strengthening the Civic Education sector.

*(Text taken from CIVICUS https://www.civicus.org/documents/toolkits/PGX_B_Civic%20Education.pdf)

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