So’Stare Project - BottegArt Association

ITALY

The association BottegArt has opened So’Stare, an independent micro-library mainly aimed at children and young people from 0 to 16 years. The goal is to tackle social issues related to integration and sharing, and at the same time the recovery and dissemination of culture. It seeks to serve as a liaison service between the comprehensive institutes of different towns in the Umbria region for training courses, teaching workshops, and for the presentation of new educational strategies suggested and developed within the national and international publishing panorama. Another objective is to promote and foster reading among children and young people and support the right to education of disadvantaged ones by providing them with school supplies with the proceeds from the sale of micro-library books and with crowdfunding ad-hoc initiatives.

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The Citizens Watch - The Reformers Initiative for Development in Africa (Reformers of Africa)

NIGERIA

The Reformers' Initiative for Development in Africa (Reformers of Africa) is a non-profit, pan-African civic-tech organization dedicated to promote and support ideals, principles and practices of participatory governance, digital social innovation, peace and government accountability in Africa. The Citizens’ Watch is a promise tracker that is designed to enable citizens, civil-societies, journalists, scholars and public policy analysts to track and rate the most significant campaign promises of elected government officials, in a bid to promote transparency, accountability and participatory governance. It is a digital social innovation that fosters greater accountability of elected government officials, enhances participatory government and increases a sense of civic responsibility. The project is aimed at developing a culture of constructive dialogue between the government and the governed, in a bid to enhance the quality of basic public services delivery in education, health, agriculture, infrastructures etc. The innovation uses offline and mobile tracking tools to track, rate and publish the most significant promises at campaigns and rallies and the manifestoes of the elected officers. This innovation bridges the gulf between the governed and the governors by holding elected officers to their trackable promises and informing the citizens of the progress of the government.

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“I am a worker, I have rights” - Institute for Labor Rights Advocacy (ILRA)

AZERBAIJAN

The mission of the organisation is to promote equal access to labour rights in Azerbaijan, guided by principles of social justice. They organize awareness-raising events and campaigns, provide free legal aid to citizens, and closely monitor the activities of relevant state agencies. The initiative's primary goal is to promote equal access to labour rights in Azerbaijan based on principles of social justice. It takes various actions to achieve its goals, including organizing awareness-raising events, conducting public discussions and free training sessions on labour rights, providing free legal aid to citizens, monitoring the activities of relevant state agencies, and running public advocacy campaigns. The initiative primarily targets workers from disadvantaged groups who are unable to afford legal services. Additionally, it engages law students interested in social activism, CSOs/initiative groups, local activists, lawyers, media outlets, trade unions, relevant governmental institutions, and relevant MPs. ILRA collaborates with various partners and stakeholders such as local initiative groups, media outlets, trade unions, governmental institutions, and MPs to enhance the effectiveness and visibility of its activities.

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Decolonise IVS - The Coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service (CCIVS)

FRANCE

CCIVS works for the development and coordination of voluntary service worldwide, it supports and develops projects based on the idea that working together on a concrete task is the most effective way of creating international friendship and understanding. The Decolonise IVS project seeks to go to the heart of the debate around decolonisation with the aim to improve the quality of transnational cooperation by jointly developing tools, policies, and guidelines to transform power structures, processes, and mindsets among 6 of the most prominent networks in the field of international volunteering. CCIVS cooperates in with independent grassroots organisations youth-oriented and mostly youth-led, working in the field of international voluntary service and implementing activities on a local level. The project wants to have an impact on: power structures that stand in the way of global collaboration and environmental sustainability; dismantling of supremacy ideology in the minds, hearts, and practices of the volunteers and the IVS organisations contributing to global solidarity and toward equity; transformation of IVS organisations’ internal structures and procedures towards equity, diversity, and environmental sustainability; wider institutional and social change; strengthening and deepening of collaboration among Programme countries and Partner countries.

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