Regional Conference on Research on Civil Society Organisations:
Status and Prospects26th-28th January 2010
Amman - Jordan
Research on CSOs in North Africa
(Tunisia)
Comments: Pr. Haykel Ben Mahfoudh
Idea - Values
Identification
Scope - Typology
Role - Action
Evolution - Historical Aspect
Transformation - Challenges
Means
Understanding
A problem of Structure◦ Mapping - Identification◦ Structuring - Community
A problem of Inventory◦ Official
Partial ; Biased Ifeda; CREDIF
◦ Private: Inexistent ; insufficient
◦ Associative Incomplete ; reliability
Inventory
Disequilibrium
Legitimacy
Autonomy
Transformation
Diagnosis
Recuperation and manipulation of CSOs:
autonomy at the formation
autonomy in the action
autonomy form authority
autonomy from others: political parties
Power and Counter-power
◦ means of action against the coercive power
◦ attempts to escape pressures
AUTONOMY
Approach
◦ Neglected historical approach
◦ Exhausted Institutional approach
◦ Unfocused multidisciplinary approach
◦ Confused comparative approach
Needs
A Right to an Inventory
A need for a true and proper image of
CSO’s
A need for a CSO’S Community
A need for a an effective autonomy
A need for a new view
Attempts and resources for release –
Autonomy
Rethinking the associative work –
Redefining CSO’s values and principles:
Voluntarism:
Framework
Professionalization v. Amateurism
Prospects
The need for new terms of analysis
A Community of NGO’S
Inputs of the “Share and Compare” concept
CSO’s in the Maghreb
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