Our Work
Using three pillars – Convening, Futures & Innovation, and a Platform for Collaboration – we work together with CSO leaders, activists, and frontrunners from other sectors to establish and grow a thriving civil society sector that improves people’s lives worldwide
Convening
We hold workshops and conferences where civil society practitioners can connect, collaborate and co-create, challenging conventional thinking and bringing the best and freshest ideas to the fore.
Vision Works
08-10 April 2025
Global CEOs and chairs of leading ICSOs collaborate over key strategic issues for their organisations and the sector.
Global Perspectives
Nov 2025
Leaders and innovators from civil society organisations, partners and stakeholders gather annually to explore civil society trends and challenges.
Leading Together
01-03 July 2025
Policy, programme and human resources directors discuss best practices and opportunities for joint action.
Futures & Innovation
We seek out the latest innovations and analyse how they can help ICSOs achieve greater impact; while scanning for future developments that could determine civil society’s relevance.
Innovation Report - 2024
Our 2024 report explores locally led initiatives that are making significant strides in addressing power asymmetries.
Scanning the Horizon
Civil society analysts exchange strategies on this platform to detect and confront disruption.
Digital Dialogues
From unpacking the role of digital innovations in facilitating inclusivity to questioning how ICSOs could avoid takeover of grassroots innovations.
Mis-, Dis-, and Malinformation
Insights and foresights on misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation and the threats they pose to civil society organisations.
Collaboration
Building on our events and connections, we develop projects and partnerships
that tackle common problems and bring impact that no organisation could achieve alone.
Leave No One Behind Partnership - Making Voices Heard and Count
Twelve leading ICSOs collaborate in line with the Sustainable Development Goals to amplify marginalised voices worldwide.
Accelerating Inclusive Power Shift
June 2024
Supporting ICSOs and the wider sector with tools, best practice, and discussion space to become more inclusive and power-balanced.
Solidarity Action Network (SANE)
Collecting, sharing and developing strategies for and by civil society actors facing undue threats and restrictions.
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We are committed to ensuring that everyone can enjoy our events safely and without discrimination. Please find our safeguarding policy and complaints mechanism information.
International Civil Society Centre gGmbH,
Agricolastraße 26,
10555 Berlin,
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30 20 62 46 97 11
