The power of community driven oversight to promote social cohesion
Providing Civil Society Organisations with the tools needed to drive community driven accountability is connected directly to promoting social cohesion and a community’s ability…
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Democracy Works Academy 2021 Cohort Applications: Apply Here
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Democracy Works Academy: Applications for the 2021 Cohort Opens on 15 February 2021
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Building stronger bridges between provincial legislatures and CSOs: Reflections from a baseline study
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Electoral Reform Multi-Stakeholder Meeting held in Manzini – Eswatini
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Democracy Works Foundation’s response to the Coronavirus
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Democracy Works Foundation Invites You to a Cool Politics Cafe
Please join us for a Cool Politics Cafe (dialogue discussion) on Reflections on a Post-CODESA South Africa: a look at the current socio-economic…
Policy Brief 35: South Africa needs electoral system overhaul
Introduction The Constitutional Court’s decision in July 2020 to declare unconstitutional aspects of the Electoral Act which disallow individuals to stand as independent candidates…
South Africa: Democracy Works Foundation & Human Science Research Council – Building an Inclusive Post-Covid-19 Economy for South Africa
Given the cataclysmic nature of the Covid-19 economic crisis conventional economic responses, of pursuing counter-cyclical fiscal policy, which is increasing public spending and cutting…
Partner Highlight: Action Support Centre strengthens resilience of migrant women
Theirs was a journey of hope as they travelled from the Great Lakes region (DRC, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda) seeking a better future in…
Northern Cape Provincial Legislature takes extraordinary steps to strengthen public participation
By Mira Dutschke Introduction The need for oversight and accountability over service delivery failures in our communities has only been increased as a result…
Press Release: Civil Society Organisations Participate in the Women’s Sectoral Parliament in the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature
Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) and civil society organisations (CSOs) working in low-income communities today meet with members of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature (NCPL)…
Democracy Works Foundation assists Civil Society to get Provincial Legislature support during COVID-19
COVID-19 has touched almost every aspect of the social, economic, private and political lives of all South Africans. One such impact, which has wide-spread…
If SA’s economy is to survive Covid, this is the example we Musk follow
Elon Musk’s founding of Tesla and SpaceX is an example of the kind of entrepreneurial mindset, culture and doggedness South Africa should make a…
It’s time we all called out the perpetrators of gender-based violence
As women, we live with the reality that we are more likely to experience GBV by someone we know than some random stranger. It…