110 likes | 213 Views
Regional Conference on Research on Civil Society Organisations : Status and Prospects. 26th-28th January 2010 Amman - Jordan. Research on CSOs in North Africa (Tunisia). Comments: Pr. Haykel Ben Mahfoudh. Understanding. Idea - Values Identification Scope - Typology Role - Action
E N D
Regional Conference on Research on Civil Society Organisations: Status and Prospects 26th-28th January 2010Amman - Jordan
Research on CSOs in North Africa(Tunisia) Comments: Pr. Haykel Ben Mahfoudh
Understanding • Idea - Values • Identification • Scope - Typology • Role - Action • Evolution - Historical Aspect • Transformation - Challenges • Means
Inventory • A problem of Structure • Mapping - Identification • Structuring - Community • A problem of Inventory • Official • Partial ; Biased • Ifeda; CREDIF • Private: • Inexistent ; insufficient • Associative • Incomplete ; reliability
Diagnosis • Disequilibrium • Legitimacy • Autonomy • Transformation
AUTONOMY • Recuperation and manipulation of CSOs: • autonomy at the formation • autonomy in the action • autonomy form authority • autonomy from others: political parties • Power and Counter-power • means of action against the coercive power • attempts to escape pressures
Approach • Neglected historical approach • Exhausted Institutional approach • Unfocused multidisciplinary approach • Confused comparative approach
Needs • A Right to an Inventory • A need for a true and proper image of CSO’s • A need for a CSO’S Community • A need for a an effective autonomy • A need for a new view
Prospects • Attempts and resources for release – Autonomy • Rethinking the associative work – • Redefining CSO’s values and principles: • Voluntarism: • Framework • Professionalization v. Amateurism
CSO’s in the Maghreb • The need for new terms of analysis • A Community of NGO’S • Inputs of the “Share and Compare” concept