Identity, Legitimacy and Accountability: Assessing Domains

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

2. Why Identity, Legitimacy and Accountability Now? • 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

3. 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?

4. 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

5. Child Sponsorship Sector CSO CSO CSO Sector Clients Donors CSO CSO CSO Media

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

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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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?

12. 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?