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TitelPeople´s power : debating civic driven change  
AuteurW. Verkoren
Jaar2008
TijdschriftThe Broker
Serienummer11
Pagina's8-11
ISSN1874-2033
OrganisatieThe Broker
OnderwerpSocial and Political Change
Trefwoordendevelopment policy, democratisation, participation, civil society
SamenvattingThe Broker asked people all over the world to participate in a debate on civic driven change (CDC), one of the principles that guided Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. This article summarizes their responses. Spurred by the need among Dutch aid organizations for new ideas to guide their practice, the CDC initiative brought together thinkers and practitioners to begin developing a new, bottom-up, citizen- and society-based approach to social change. The thinking was that development cooperation, or in a CDC-inspired term, ‘aided change’, needed an alternative to the practice of planned, linear and top-down interventions. The outputs so far include a book of eight essays written by the members of the core CDC group, and a seminar at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague on 15 October 2008, where the group discussed their ideas with around 180 participants, most of them Dutch development practitioners. The new approach calls for trust-based, open-ended support of civic agency, but still guided by values.  
TaalEngels
CategoriePolicy
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