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)
Latest Civic Education News and Resources
C4D Network at the CEC18 Civic Education Conference (Morocco, 3-7 December 2018)
Inclusive Civic Engagement Toolkit (Inclusion International, 2015)
How Can Evidence Bolster Citizen Action? Learning and Adapting for Accountable Public Health in Guatemala ( Accountability Research Center, Accountability Note 2. 2018)
Politicians’ perspectives on voice and accountability: evidence from a survey of South African local councillors (Making All Voices Count Research Report, 2017)
Going vertical: citizen-led reform campaigns in the Philippines (Making All Voices Count research report 2016)
Citizen engagement in peacebuilding: A communication for development approach to rebuilding peace from the bottom-up (Progress in Development Studies 16:4 2016)
Turn up the volume: empowering women through media (BBC Media Action Practice briefing 2016)
