Citizen Engagement Program
About this program
Purpose: To accompany citizens and communities to achieve their full human potential through creating, facilitating and fostering spaces for critical dialogue and change.
Why?
To activate, educate and mobilise citizens in order to become active co-participants in the creation and accomplishment of their own development agenda.
How?
- Hosting public dialogues around critical issues of governance, accountability, social and economic justice, and nation building
- Empowering and accompanying communities through capacity building workshops to support, capacitate and mentor those we work with
- Producing educational materials that can be distributed to communities to inform and educate them about critical issues of active citizenship
- Building partnerships with community radio stations in order to increase the reach of our educational programmes to remote and marginalised areas
August 3, 2020
DDP hosted a Virtual Youth Panel Discussion on Collaborative Youth Leadership and Activism: In the Fight Against Gender-Based-Violence in Society. This engagement was hosted on the […]
June 18, 2020
Dealing with social and inter-generational issues “The struggles of the youth of 1976 compared to the youth of 2020” The Democracy Development Program in partnership with […]
May 28, 2020
Dialogue theme: The role of the youth in creating common African unity and identity politically, economically and socially (Agenda 2063) Africa Day is intended to celebrate […]
May 5, 2020
On the 30th of April 2020 Africa Unite in partnership with Lindelani Youth Forum and Democracy Development Program had an online dialogue in commemoration of the […]
April 9, 2020
By: Sphamandla Mhlongo As an organization, we still believe that part of our values is the concept of collaboration – as we think that the work […]
March 18, 2020
The Democracy Development Program hosted it’s second Civic Education Dialogue in Northern KZN. This dialogue was hosted on the 17th of March 2020 in KwaSkhemelele, in […]
March 16, 2020
The Democracy Development Program in partnership with PACSA and DUT Student Union organized a Student Dialogue on the 13th March 2020 and the dialogue was held […]
March 16, 2020
The Democracy Development Program organized a Student Dialogue on the 14th March 2020 and the dialogue was held at the Poynton House (Mangosuthu University of Technology […]
March 13, 2020
The Democracy Development Program in Partnership with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) hosted a Public Forum […]
March 11, 2020
Our first in our series of Civic Education to be facilitated by Mr. Shakespear Baleni for the year. This dialogue was hosted in Clermont Library situated […]
March 4, 2020
The Democracy Development Program has created the Students’ dialogues program as a platform for meaningful engagement among students. It is a space that can be initiated […]
February 28, 2020
The Democracy Development Program convened a local government dialogue themed: Count us in on service delivery, the dialogue was held on the 27th of February 2019, […]
February 21, 2020
By: Sthabiso Mdledle The Democracy Development Program hosted a post SONA forum at Elangeni Hotel in Durban on 20 February 2020. This comes after President Cyril […]
February 10, 2020
By: Sthabiso Mdledle As South Africa embarks on a new school year, it is an opportune moment to engage communities, civil society as well as citizens […]
November 22, 2019
By: Sanelisiwe Mabaso The Democracy Development Programme (DDP) in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), hosted a two- […]
November 8, 2019
DDP Convened a public forum to gauge citizens thoughts on the Mid-term budget speech presented by Finance Minister, as well as to gauge insights on the […]
September 18, 2019
By Lizeka Maduna Following a spade of violent clashes between African migrants and locals in the past few weeks, which has seen people chaos emerge in […]
September 3, 2019
Afesis-corplan in partnership with Democracy Development Program (DDP) and the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Social Action (PACSA) hosted a civil society roundtable in Pietermaritzburg on the 28-29 […]
August 21, 2019
The Democracy Development Programme held an Inaugural Media Summit aimed at enhancing and strengthening existing relationship between community media, civil society and communities; through long term […]
August 20, 2019
By: Mbalenhle Mkhize Women in South Africa are slowly breaking the gender stereotypes and changing the narrative of what women stand for and who they […]