CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation is an international alliance of members and partners which constitute an influential network of organisations at the local, national, regional and international levels. The alliance has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, especially in areas where participatory democracy and citizens' freedom of association are threatened. CIVICUS acts as an advocate for citizen participation as an essential component of governance and democracy worldwide, providing a focal point for knowledge-sharing, common interest representation, global institution-building and engagement among these disparate sectors.

CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people and it gives expression to the enormous creative energy of the burgeoning sector of civil society.