Executive Summary
Executive Summary (English)
Resumen Ejecutivo (en Español)
Résumé (Francais)
State of Civil Society 2014: Reimagining Global Governance (full report) Full report
The Year That Was
A year in civil society - citizen action to the fore
Summary of Expert Perspectives
Towards a democratic multilateralism: civil society perspectives on the state of global governance
Civil Society Perspectives on Global Governance
Section 1: The great challenges of the 21st century
Old problems, invisible problems, new actors: Conceiving and mis-conceiving our urban century
Sheela Patel
Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres and Shack/Slum Dwellers International
Escaping the global resource curse
Gavin Hayman
Global Witness
Responsibility to Protect: Can we prevent mass atrocities without making the same old mistakes?
Jaclyn D. Streitfeld-Hall
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
A people's Internet: democratising Internet governance
Dixie Hawtin
Global Partners Digital
What needs to change in the global governance system to ensure climate justice
Kumi Naidoo and Daniel Mittler
Greenpeace International
Section 2: Citizens demanding accountability in the international arena
The fight against UN impunity and immunity in Haiti: The cholera scandal
Mario Joseph
Bureau des Avocats Internationaux
Assessing the accountability of the world’s leading institutions
Christina Laybourn
One World Trust
Innovative strategies used by the disability movement in pushing for the Convention on the Rights of Peoples with Disabilities
Julia Wolhandler
Section 3: Strengthening regional mechanisms
We came, we saw and we kept watching: How the UN and the Arab League failed the people of Syria
Ziad Abdel Samad and Joel Ghazi
Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND)
Good practices on CSO participation at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights
Pan-African Human Rights Defenders Network
How to maintain the independence of a human rights body within an intergovernmental structure: The case of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the Organization of American States
Jefferson Nascimento and Raísa Cetra
Foreign Policy and Human Rights Programme, Conectas Human Rights
Advocating for a mechanism to protect the Commonwealth charter
Kirsty Welch
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Section 4: The search for an equitable economic order
Designing Equitable Economic Policies: The case for a G193 (rather than a G20)
Aldo Caliari
Center for Concern
The Great Divide: Exposing the Davos class behind global economic inequality
Nick Buxton
Transnational Institute
The changing face of the World Bank and Civil Society's role in the evolving institution
Chad Dobson
Bank Information Center
Section 5: From Rio+20 to beyond 2015
Best practices in Youth Engagement with IGOs: Case Study from Rio+ 20 process
Ivana Savić
Volunteerism, civic engagement and the post 2015 agenda
United Nations Volunteers
The Future We Want: The New Reality of Governance Post Rio + 20
Jan-Gustav Strandenaes
Stakeholder Forum
Section 6: The way forward
Multi-stakeholder governance seeks to dislodge multilateralism
Harris Gleckman
Influencing Global Governance from the Outside: A case study of Change.org
Paul Hilder
Change.org
Bringing Citizens to the Core: The Campaign for a UN Parliamentary Assembly
Andreas Bummel
Committee for a Democratic UN
Intergovernmental Organisation Scorecard
Introduction: Beyond our two minutes
Part Two: Results
Part Three: Conclusion and Recommendations
Part Four: Intergovernmental Organisation Profiles
