The project aimed to involve citizens' organizations of the newly formed Europe and Latin America in the assessment and the revision of the representativeness criteria used to identify the civic NGOs to be involved in public policy making at the national, European, and international level. The general aim was to examine the existing institutional criteria for identifying civic organizations to participate in the public policy process and to bring together civic organizations' proposals for fair and feasible criteria. The rationale underlying this project was that, while civic NGOs have a growing role in policymaking at all levels, the identification criteria used by institutions to involve these organizations are often obscured or otherwise inadequate.
This project was co-funded by the European Commission DG Education and Culture
2003-2004
