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
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 […]
July 17, 2019
As 24 countries across Africa will be holding elections this year, the Democracy Development Programme in partnership with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and My Vote Counts hosted […]
May 16, 2019
By: Sthabiso Mdledle and Nosipho Luthuli The Democracy Development Program hosted its 3rd Annual Youth Indaba on Wednesday to Thursday June 14-15 at the Diakonia Centre […]
May 16, 2019
DDP convened a book launch on transformation: “What is transformation in contemporary South African higher education? how can it be facilitated through research and pedagogic practices? […]
May 14, 2019
By Sphesihle Masondo – As the local government elections get close, the competition between political parties to win the hearts and votes of citizens becomes stronger. […]
May 14, 2019
By Sthabiso Mdledle – This initiative was a multi stakeholder initiative which sought to combine practical learning elements and conversational engagement. The Lindelani Youth Forum (LYF) […]
May 14, 2019
By Sthabiso Mdledle – Respected political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi has blamed the African National Congress (ANC) for the chaos and violence in parliament. This emerged last […]
May 14, 2019
The Folweni community Dialogue took place at the Folweni Community Resources Centre (FCRC) on 20 March 2017. This dialogue focused on the various issues that affected […]
May 14, 2019
By Stabiso Mdledle – The DDP (Democracy Development Program) and ASONET (African Solidarity Network) in partnership with other women organisations held a women’s dialogue at the […]
May 14, 2019
By Sthabiso Mdledle – The Democracy Development Program in partnership with the KwaZulu-Natal Economic Council hosted a forum on South Africa’s contentious topic: Radical Economic Transformation […]