Prerequisites for Effective CSO Participation in Policy Dialogue

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Prerequisites for Effective CSO Participation in
Policy Dialogue

• Nilda Bullain
• European Center for Not-for-Profit Law
• International Center for Not-Profit Law

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Policy and legal environment

• Problematic basic legal framework for policy
  engagement (SEE and CIS)
• Registration restrictions
• Types of allowed activities
• Objective legal-fiscal criteria
• Poison provisions

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Policy and legal environment

• Stable or stabilizing democracies where basic
  framework is in place
• Basic approach to engagement corporatist
  interest representation model vs. open advocacy
  and lobbying model
• Europe / EU 15 -25 dominant model is corporatist,
  which has disadvantages in being adopted to
  post-dictatorship environments (favoritism,
  paternalism, maintaining status quo of powerful
  groups)
• Other major dilemmas e.g.
• Participation vs effectiveness
• Participation or image building
• NGOs vs citizens

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Participation matrix
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Further information

• www.ecnl.org
• www.icnl.org