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What is Monitoring and Advocacy ?

Advocacy is a way of making efforts to influence government policy and practice. That could for example be CSOs taking part in a consultative process regarding the reform of the electoral law; it good be CSOs pushing for a Freedom of Information law and creating a public debate forum around this; it could be CSO campaigns to influence party financing mechanisms, or Civil society in policy dialogue for the improvements of  district development  grants.

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What is Good Governance?
If you ask this question to hundred people in hundred different countries, cities and communities, you will probably get hundred different answers. This is not an easy question to answer, and there is probably not one correct answer that would please everybody and fit everywhere.  
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What is Civil Society?
It is often argued that civil society is a concept located strategically at the cross-section of important strands of intellectual developments in the social sciences. To take account of the diversity of the concept, CSSM has adopted a definition that is meant to guide the objectives and activities of the CSSM, but it is by no means to be interpreted as a rigid statement:
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