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Civil organisations are captive groupings of people who are concerned with the plight of humanity in one way or the other. To understand the model, we will need to pause and consider what Civil organisations represent in the outlook of the total social and political landscape and who are the members.
First, it would not be hard to conclude that these organisations represent a response to social ills, which are not being addressed by government or the rest of the society. Hence, when ordinary citizens get together to form Civil organisations, they represent people of like-minds, who have either experienced or have knowledge of social ills, which they are seeking to address. The fact that people get together also suggests that these are people who feel strongly enough about these particular social ills that they are prepared to seek social justice to address or eliminate them.
For any Government, the existence of Civil organisations is a plus because they identify those persons who are willing to get up and do something about their society. Further, They identify those people who have a working knowledge of the problem and who have the experience of searching for solutions to these problems.
Hence at the level of the civil organisation there is a pool of persons with knowledge and expertise on the entire spectrum of social ills, which is of importance to the good governance of any country. Whether or not the political directorate recognizes this fact and is prepared to use this expertise is a different matter.
In our case we are being led to believe that our Governments want to draw on this pool of expertise and knowledge in order to effect good civil governance. We therefore, would recommend that the leaders of Civil Society seize the opportunity to organize and so establish a Civil Society movement, that it becomes second nature.
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