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In early 2008 ten activists and intellectuals formed the Civic Driven Change (CDC) Initiative. Since then they have been speaking, thinking and writing about an alternative narrative to the dominant state- and market-focused models: civic driven change. In issue 10, The Broker summarized the CDC process and the ideas expressed in essays written by CDC Initiative members. Scholars, policymakers and activists from all over the world are invited to comment on the report.
Reactions are published here. A summary of the debate will be published in The Broker 11. Everybody is encouraged to respond, please, email your reactions to Frans Bieckmann.
In recent issues of The Broker the concepts civic driven change (CDC), systems thinking, complexity theory and institutional innovation have been discussed. These concepts are certainly an enrichment of... Read more >>
Enlightenment - A new comment in the CDC debate
December 16, 2008 Harry C. Boyte
The responses thus far to the special report on civic driven change (The Broker 10) have helped to launch a public and international conversation with far-ranging implications for the work of democracy building and development. I look forward to hearing many more voices in this debate. Here, I want to address briefly the issues raised by Richard Holloway, director of the Aga Khan Development network in Geneva, and Lia van Broekhoven, a policy advisor to Cordaid. Read more>>
After experts like Fowler and Biekart, who have brainstormed on this with a group of professors, the term civic refers to a ‘wide range of individuals with their own points of view’; and the word change... Read more >>
The author is a senior policy advisor at OxfamNovib
What is ‘Civic Driven Change’ if seen from the perspective of a professional lobbyist? As a phenomenon it could be defi... Read more >>
The author is an independent consultant
Your special report on the Civic Driven Change Initiative is a good piece of reportage on a welcome undertaking. I hope it will get lots o... Read more >>
The author is Executive Director of community Development Research Association (CDRA), Cape Town
My thoughts are triggered by two questions raised in the Broker’s Special Report... Read more >>
The author is Associate Vice President and Director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, Philadelphia
I am very pleased to see the formation of th... Read more >>
The author works at CICAM, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
The initiative by the development and peace organisations in the Netherlands to start a debate on the role of civil soci... Read more >>
The author is Professor of Development Sociology, University of Oxford
Did September-October 2008 mark a death-knell for capitalism? No, but it has driven a massive stake into th... Read more >>
The author is a Civil society programme director, Aga Khan Development Network, Geneva
The papers had me cheering and stamping the floor as the writers skewered and demolished th... Read more >>
