National Directories of Civil Society Resource Organizations in Southeast Asia
By The Synergos Institute | October 2002 | View Full Text | Email Link

Abstract

In Africa, Asia and Latin America, citizen participation has become a growing and vital force for social change. Through donations of time, energy, materials, and money, civil society organizations have brought significant material and human resources from the community level to bear on problems of poverty. Increasingly, locally managed and controlled organizations that mobilize financial resources and transfer these funds to civil society organizations have been established to facilitate just this kind of community action.

While the number of such organizations remains small in these regions of the world, they are helping to support, strengthen and sustain thousands of small and large civil society organizations. In Asia, the term "civil society resource organization" -- or CSRO -- is frequently used.

The growing universe of CSROs in Asia is only beginning to be systematically studied. In discussion with CSROs and local researchers in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, Synergos mapped the emerging body of CSROs in each country and their role in strengthening civil society.

The directories were produced with financial support the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

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