Agenda in Focus: Civil Society and Social Innovation

We know that civil society is changing. New funding models, new partnership ventures and new tools and innovations have started to emerge and are showing alternative ways for the sector to pioneer social change.

But which driving forces are more forcefully transforming the sector? What are the prevailing patterns of change? And what does the future hold for civil society movements and organisations, particularly as digital and emerging technologies are creating new challenges and opportunities?

To answer some of these questions, here’s a collection of what civil society leaders and practitioners are foreseeing as major opportunities for innovation and transformation in the social sector, and what it takes to make them happen.