Introducing the playbook for expanding civic space - a conversation tool to help funders and civil society identify shared values and goals, map their work to defend and expand civic space, and identify gaps or work that needs to be scaled up.
Building on Rethinking Civic Space, the major review published by FICS in 2020, this month we released The Security Playbook 101 a new paper that demonstrates the expansion and abuse of security powers, tools, and discourse by States in ways that criminalise and restrict activists. The playbook also offers solutions for how philanthropy can support civil society to disrupt, reform and transform this trend.
This briefing paper summarizes how the closing of civil society space is impeding environmental and conservation initiatives around the world, the drivers behind these increased restrictions, and how funders are starting to address these challenges
In Spring 2018, FICS published a paper that grouped strategies to support civil society into two broad categories: resistance and resilience.