A note on CIVICUS CSI study in Tanzania

Finding studies of civil society are still difficult to get in Tanzania. Most studies are donor-motivated documents giving an overview of the sector.
The CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI) could be one of the approaches to fill that gap. In Tanzania there has been an initial process of conducting such a study. In 2007 the Tanzanian CSO “ForDIA” (www.fordia.org) won a tender to be the agency to initiate and coordinate the process.
They received funding from UNDP to participate in CSI-training at CIVICUS in South Africa and conduct the initial processes in Tanzania.
However, the process has come to a stand still, because of lack of funding. UNDP was expected to be the likely funding agency of the actual study, but have not been able raise the funds needed.
It seems still relevant for civil society to have such a study done, since data on the status of CS are so scarce.
Foundation for Civil Society is planning to do a yearly “Status of Civil society-report” based on the data that are available to them because of their close contact and links to CSOs in general.