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ToolBox: Building a Movement Mindset

This toolkit is a roadmap to empower Civil Society Organisations CSOs to adapt their organisational culture, practices and strategies to better align with the ideals of social movements.

How Civil Society Organisations can Support Movements

A practical guide of how civil society organisations CSOs can support social movements beyond funding alone.

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Protecting Civic Space: A Primer – How to Prepare your Organization for Politicized Government Investigations

A guide from Protect Democracy about how to protect your civic space and prepare your organization for politicized government investigations.

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Telling the Story of Civil Society: A Toolkit | Creando Narrativas sobre la Sociedad Civil (Spanish – Español)

This toolkit by Metgroup helps civil society groups create powerful, hopeful narratives that build public trust and defend civic space.

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We Need New Strategies to Respond to the Far Right

Reflections by Natasha Adams about the impact of authoritarianism on civic space in the UK and what strategies are needed.

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Safeguarding Civic Space: Harnessing Narrative Change to Restore Public Trust in Civil Society Organisations

A guide to empower actors to defend and promote civic rights effectively, plus 10 practical lessons for proactive narrative change.

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Frameworks for Engaging with Visible Power

Two frameworks for assessing the different kinds of policy and political spaces activists can engage in or create to effect change.

The Testing Change Project: Learnings for Civil Society Organisations

A summary of the Testing Change Project which developed and tested new ways of operating for civil society organizations.

Golden Dawn: Lessons From Greece in Tackling Extremism

This report discusses Golden Dawn, a far-right party in Greece that engaged in criminal activities and was exposed through civil society efforts, offering lessons for combating extremism worldwide.

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From Protest to Politics: The Effectiveness of Civil Society in shaping the Nuclear-free Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand

A case study about what made anti-nuclear activism successful in Aotearoa New Zealand between the 1960s – 1980s.

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