Conclusion of advocacy sessions 30 September 2021

Today, Thursday, September 30, 2021, the third and final session of the advocacy track sessions for the "Legislative Environment for Civil and Community Work in Syria" project, implemented by the Nation Building Movement, concluded.

Thirty male and female participants from activists, human rights activists, experts and researchers from different Syrian regions participated in the sessions. The participants were distributed over three sessions, the first on September 25 and the second on September 27.

The sessions included an introduction to the project and a discussion of a project concept paper entitled "Towards an Independent and Effective Civil Society", which includes a set of determinants (requirements) that can be built upon to calibrate any civil activity or work or law related to civil activity, work and licensing.

The participants were divided into working groups to discuss the determinants represented by the existence and establishment of an independent and effective civil society and establishing its higher roles and how to ensure its independence, in addition to discussing the methods and ways of its governance and examining the roles of partnership, participation and partnership that civil society can play. This is with the aim of building a clear, specific, and consensual shared vision that proves and enhances the role of civil society as a true partner in planning and evaluation, with its own entity and independent decisions.

These determinants were discussed and developed according to the visions represented by the participants.

It is worth noting that the next phase of this project will witness various sessions that work to include various activists in civil society to work together to achieve an independent and effective civil society.