CIVIL SOCIETY Asia Europe and Eurasia Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East, North Africa and South Asia We strengthen civil society to facilitate citizens’ voices, to monitor governments and hold them accountable, and to improve access and quality of service provision. Our programs address civil society organizations’ (CSOs’) legal environment, technical skills and organizational capacity to affect change, and long-term sustainability. Our approach is inclusive, making diverse citizen groups and organizations stronger and more effective. We emphasize three elements in all programs based on decades of direct learning from our field work: 1) local ownership, 2) capacity development (including mentoring and coaching) and 3) development of networks and partnerships to accelerate cross-institution learning and ensure change. We deploy tools such as our Advancing Policy and Institutional Reform Framework to help CSOs advocate for and monitor reforms and our Scaling Up Framework to take pilots to scale. We work with networks of civil society actors in closed and closing environments to counter anti-democratic trends, negotiate space for citizen participation, improve security, and sustain their work. We work closely with civil society in post-conflict environments to promote stabilization and strengthen community resilience. Examples of our work include support to civil society-government partnerships and increased citizen engagement to achieve reform results in Ukraine and Mexico. In Indonesia, we currently support CSOs to catalyze investigative reporting and run advocacy campaigns to improve government decision-making. We also have done extensive analytic work, including implementing USAID’s CSO Sustainability Index in 60 countries for 14 years. RELATED EXPERTS Lynn Carter Senior Advisor for Governance and Conflict Susan Ward Chief of Party, Indonesia HARMONI Laurel Bradley Technical Manager Svetlana Winbourne Technical Director Stevens Tucker Practice Area Lead and Technical Director Brian Calhoon Technical Manager Gwendolyn Bevis Technical Director RELATED STORIES Consolidating Armenia's Path to Democracy MSI Supports COVID-19 Response in the Middle East & North Africa Supporting Civil Society to Combat HIV/AIDS in Zambia Turning the Policy Tables in Iraq < > VIEW ALL STORIES RELATED PROJECTS Continued Support for Sustainable Peace in Colombia Projects Helping Colombia on its Road to Peace Projects VIEW ALL PROJECTS ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Youth at Work Learning Series DOWNLOAD 2015 CSO Sustainability Index for Pakistan DOWNLOAD 2016 CSO Sustainability Index for Asia DOWNLOAD 2016 CSO Sustainability Index for Sub-Saharan Africa DOWNLOAD Jordan Civil Society Assessment Report DOWNLOAD Developing CSO Capacity in Closing Spaces DOWNLOAD VIEW MORE Main navigation HOME WHO WE ARE WHAT WE DO OUR IMPACT WORK WITH US JOIN OUR MAILING LIST Tetra Tech | Privacy Policy LET’S CONNECT 200 12th Street South, Suite 1200 Arlington, VA 22202 USA Tel: +1 703 979 7100 We use cookies to understand how our audience uses our site. Read about how we use cookies and how you can control them here. By continuing to use this site, without changing your settings, you are indicating that you accept this policy. More info OK, I agree No, thanks