The EU-funded Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality Programme is organizing an online public debate on “Achieving sustainability in civil society work: the issue of resources and autonomy” on 29 April at 2 p.m. This event is the sixth and last of a series of online public debates on civil society’s challenges in the region.

The debate will address challenges and opportunities to make the functioning of regional networks and the regional activities of civil society in the Mediterranean region possible, assessing the internal and external factors that impact on citizens’ groups and organizations, such as the access to funding, external pressures or the security rules.

This event will gather participants from different backgrounds like civil society activists, researchers and journalists from euro-Mediterranean countries to find out about institutional stability of citizens’ entities and initiatives, as well as the capacity to combine online and offline work after the pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties to operate effectively in the region.

In addition to that, participants will have the opportunity to address their questions and remarks to the speakers by writing in the chat form.

This series of online debates is held within the framework of the Med Dialogue’s online publication “Bridging the sea: A review of Mediterranean civil society” which was released in February 2021.

Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality is an EU-funded Technical Assistance Programme with the overall objective to strengthen the role of CSOs active at the regional scale, in building sustainable development, regional cohesion and resilience, as well as in influencing policy-making in the Southern Neighbourhood and the Euro-Mediterranean Space. ‘Mobilising local communities on regional issues of common concerns to influence the agenda of public decision-makers and regional institutions, and involve CSOs in emerging regional agendas and thematic dialogues’ is its core attribute.

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