2025 marks an exciting new chapter in the Centre’s story as we embark on a new strategic cycle, aimed at strengthening a shareholder community that is inclusive, resilient, and deeply connected to the people it serves.
Together with our partners we are building a future where every community has a voice, challenges are met with innovative solutions, and global collaboration turns today’s obstacles into tomorrow’s achievements.
Currently, civil society is facing unprecedented challenges. Shrinking operating space, geopolitical unrest, rising inequality and social divides, the proliferation of anti-rights actors, digital and technological threats, and a fast-changing volatile environment determine our working conditions. At the Centre, we tackle these challenges head-on by collaborating with communities and partners to inform policies, promote equity, and ensure no one is left behind.
As a convening organisation, the Centre has – and will continue to – play a key role in supporting the civil society leadership community to tackle and foster new solutions to the ever-growing challenges. We provide safe spaces where sector
leaders can come together to discuss current and common challenges, share learnings, and offer future perspectives on emerging trends.
This year, building on our continued leadership support, we will further consolidate our programme initiatives, guided by our new strategy which focuses on three key priority themes:
- Understanding and shaping the futures of International Civil Society Organisations
- Shaping and strengthening civil society’s operating space
- Focusing on the empowerment of civil society partners and marginalised communities
Our dedicated project team oversee several communities of practice. Working collaboratively, they help to tackle and investigate these key priority themes through outcomes focused research, engagement with key stakeholders at community meetings, and cross-cutting collaboration through various knowledge exchanges.
We invite you to take part and look forward to collaborating with you through our convenings, offerings, and programme initiatives in this important year. Let’s stay strong, work together and support each other.
Welcome to our Programme for 2025
Wolfgang Jamann
Executive Director
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Wolfgang Jamann
Executive Director
International Civil Society Centre
Dr. Wolfgang Jamann is Executive Director of the International Civil Society Centre. Until January 2018 he was Secretary General and CEO of CARE International (Geneva). Before that he led NGO Deutsche Welthungerhilfe and the Alliance 2015, a partnership of 7 European aid organisations. From 2004-2009 he was CEO & Board member of CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg and President of the CARE Foundation. Previously, he worked for World Vision International as a regional representative in East Africa (Kenya) & Head of Humanitarian Assistance at WV Germany. After his Ph.D. dissertation in 1990 he started his career in development work at the German Foundation for International Development, later for the UNDP in Zambia. As a researcher and academic, he has published books and articles on East & Southeast Asia contributing to international studies on complex humanitarian emergencies and conflict management.
