Category: CSR-Hub Blog
Spaces for Change | S4C convened the 7th edition of the NGO Regulatory Compliance Clinic for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the northeastern region of Nigeria on April 17, 2023, in Maiduguri, Borno State. Held under the auspices of the Ford Foundation-supported Civic Space Resource Hub (CSR-Hub), executive directors, finance and administration officers of 19 national […]
Spaces for Change | S4C convened the 7th edition of the NGO Regulatory Compliance Clinic for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the northeastern region of Nigeria on April 17, 2023, in Maiduguri, Borno State. Held under the auspices of the Ford Foundation-supported Civic Space Resource Hub (CSR-Hub), executive directors, finance and administration officers of 19 national […]
Spaces for Change | S4C and West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), co-hosts of the West Africa Civic Space Resource Hub (CSR-Hub), participated in the Weaving Resilience conference held in Cape Town, South Africa from February 27 to March 2, 2023. Beginning from January 2022, the CSR-Hub’s four strategic pillars—Governance, Digital Security, Civic Space Protection, and Research and Knowledge-building—have […]
Spaces for Change | S4C has extended the reach of the NGO Regulatory Compliance Clinic to other West African countries, beginning with Senegal. On December 7, 2022, S4C and Publish What You Pay Senegal co-hosted the one-day Clinic in Dakar, Senegal, which brought together 15 executives of civil society organizations (CSOs). The Clinic aimed to […]
Spaces for Change | S4C launched a new report, “Civic Space in West Africa: Trends, Threats and Futures” on February 7 under the aegis of the Civic Space Resource Hub (CSR-Hub) for West Africa. Derived from the 639 incidents of crackdowns on the civic space in 16 West African countries tracked on the Closing Spaces Database between 2016 – 2022, […]
This report maps the trends, drivers, targets, tactics, enablers, and flashpoints of future threats in the civic space in West Africa. The trends-mapping and foresight analysis derive from the incident-tracking of crackdowns on the civic space in 16 West African countries between 2017 – 2022 on the Closing Spaces Database (www.closingspaces.org) Beyond building evidence of […]
Applications are now open into the Research and Knowledge-Building pillar of the Civic Space Resource Hub. The CSR-Hub is a resource centre designed to strengthen the capacities of civic space actors and civil society organisations in West Africa to effectively respond to emerging and long-standing challenges to the civic space in the region, and to […]
Upon request by the Anambra State Civil Society Network (ACSONET), Spaces for Change | S4C convened a dedicated session of the NGO Regulatory Compliance Clinic for non-profit organizations operating in Anambra State. The Clinic was delivered under the auspices of the Civic Space Resource Hub (CSR-Hub) for West Africa project supported by Ford Foundation. The […]
Spaces for Change | S4C organized the fifth edition of the NGO Regulatory Compliance Clinic for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in North-West Nigeria on August 10, 2022. The clinic, organized under the auspices of the West Africa Civic Space Resource Hub initiative, brought together thirty-four (34) organizations working across different thematic areas in Kano, Kaduna, […]
Under the auspices of the Ford Foundation-supported Civic Space Resource Hub (CSR-Hub), Spaces for Change | S4C, in collaboration with Dataphyte | The Interactive, hosted a two-day Digital Security Clinic for media and digital professionals in Nigeria. The Clinic’s 20 participants were drawn from media organizations, bloggers, influencers, freelancers, and thought leaders from states across […]