SO 1: Generate timely knowledge and analysis

CIVICUS continues our research to generate timely knowledge and analyses on civil society actions in relation to civic and democratic space:

Timely analysis 

• CIVICUS Lens: Providing incisive analysis and commentary from a civil society perspective in response to events around the globe that impact civil society.   

• The CIVICUS Monitor: Providing a trusted source of comparable data through country civic space ratings and violations of the freedoms of association, peaceful assembly, and expression.   

• Quarterly Civic Space Watchlist (based on the CIVICUS Monitor data) released just before key United Nations human rights review as well as country-specific policy briefs and cross-cutting thematic publications for civil society advocacy. 

Global annual publications 

• The State of Civil Society Report: An annual report reviewing civil society action in diverse arenas from the local to the global analysing contemporary events and civil society responses. 

• People Power Under Attack Report: An annual report analysing global civic space conditions with emphasis on key regional and thematic trends drawing on CIVICUS Monitor data. 

How we will measure progress:

Learning question:
How are our knowledge products contributing to public discussions on civic space?

Proxy indicators: 
CIVICUS Monitor Citations 
Target: 381 (20% increase from 1st year of strategy) 

# of times we produced timely, local, and accessible knowledge*
Target: 150  

* We are using our CIVICUS Lens articles as a proxy indicator for this output. Each week CIVICUS meets to decide what pressing issues to address and to link with relevant civil society partners. 

* The number of unique media outlets is a proxy indicator for number of times we are shaping public opinion.