CIVIC SPACE MOVEMENT

Civic Space Movement (CISMO) is a coalition of grassroots groups and organizations working to promote and protect Civic Space in Uganda. Comprised of majority grassroots civil society organizations, CISMO brings together civil society actors- a diverse set of individual and collective actors that operate in the civil society arena. Among them, civil society organizations (CSOs) are the broad range of organized collective actors, which are structured in a variety of ways, from more to less formal.

CISMO is working to create favorable operating environment for grassroots
Civil Society Organizations and actors to freely express themselves, assemble and associate. It is important to note that Civic space encompasses the multiple factors (including legal, policy, administrative, economic, customary and cultural factors) determining the extent to which members of society are able – either individually or collectively – to engage in civic action or, in other words, the conditions that make a meaningful and vibrant civil society possible (or not) in a given context.

Normative frameworks for civic space are the wide range of interrelated law,
policies, regulations and institutional procedures, which impact the possibility, level and type(s) of civic engagement – both offline and online. These encompass frameworks directly related to civil society participation and state- society relations as well as any others that may impact civic space by indirect methods or means, intentionally or otherwise.

Our Vision

A favorable and conducive operating environment for grassroots Civil Society Organizations in Uganda

Our Mission

To strengthen grassroots Civil Society organizations to promote and project Civic Space in Uganda

Our Goal

To work with grassroots civil society organizations to promote freedom of expression, association and assembly in Uganda