11 / 02 / 2010
Order out of chaos. Mapping the complexity of Pan African civil society. Oxfam. 2009. Ansa Africa.
This study was carried out in 2008 by Oxfam Novib Pan Africa Program (PAF) as an explorative mapping of civil society in Africa. It is effort to understand the landscape of civil society participation, particularly in the face of new continental and regional institutions (African Union, ECOSOCC, RECs and civil society fora). The mapping is presented by region, on two themes of Economic Justice and Gender Justice. The visual mappings of actors are presented in tables and collectively through Figure 2 (EJ) and 4 (GJ). Based on the observations made through this mapping, some hypotheses are formulated concerning the development of African Civil Society.