Identity, Legitimacy and Accountability: Assessing Domains CIVICUS-Hauser Center Workshop May, 2007

 Crisis of governance in many sectors  Civil society values and social visions  Abuses by some civil society organizations  Attacks by advocacy targets  Competing claims of diverse stakeholders  Expanding roles/impacts on societies Why Identity, Legitimacy and Accountability Now?

Assessing Domain Legitimacy and Accountability  Domain identity and goals  Issue Identification: Opportunities to enhance domain impact? Threats to domain legitimacy?  Critical domain stakeholders: Internal: Who are essential members? External: Who affects/affected by domain?  Rationales for joint action on legitimacy and accountability?

Domain Identities and Goals  Sector domains: similar organizations that share industry identification and fates Ethiopia NGOs; Child Sponsorship INGOs  Campaign/coalition domains: actors with common goals and influence targets Mt. Apo Campaign on World Bank Project  Problem domains: diverse agencies whose joint action is needed to solve complex problem Kimberly Process, Citibank and Slum Alliance

Child Sponsorship Sector CSO Media Donors Clients Sector

Mt. Apo Campaign Indigenous Peoples Local Coalition Regional Coalition National Coalition Phil Devt Forum Phil Govt World Bank Campaign

Mumbai Housing Partnership Alliance NSDF SPARC MM HI State Govt Rajiv-Indira Coop Suryodaya Coop Citibank Mumbai SRA HI City Govt Citibank Partnership

Identifying Domain Legitimacy and Accountability Issues  Serious threats to domain legitimacy Threats to values and mission credibility Reputation loss with general public Legitimacy with donors, regulators and other powerful stakeholders  Compelling domain opportunities Scaling up sector impacts Enhancing campaign influence Increasing partnership leverage

Identifying Internal and External Domain Stakeholders  Internal allies and domain members Sector co-branders Campiang allies and coalition Partners in cross-sector partnerships  External donors, regulators, constituents Affect domain goals and activities Affected by domain goals and activities

Rationales for Joint Action  Shared assessments and analyses  Agreement on desired future states  Jointly defined criteria for success  Compelling rationales for how to serve key stakeholders

Legitimacy and Accountability for Philippine NGOs?  What challenges or opportunities are presented by the proposed tax reform?  What interests are at stake? Who is in or out of the domain?  What options are available? What are their advantages and disadvantages?  What is a desirable future state? What are criteria for assessing good solutions?

Legitimacy and Accountability for your civil society domain?  What challenges or opportunities for civil society domains in your situation?  What interests at stake? Who is in or out of the domain?  What are plausible options? What are their advantages and disadvantages?  What is a desirable future state? What criteria for assessing good solutions?