Problems and Purpose It’s long been recognized that poorer and otherwise marginalized constituencies lack access to municipal services, and that their populations have lower electoral turnout rates. In response to this long-standing social issue, the Boston City Hall created “City Hall To Go," an initiative seeks to provide mayoral services...
The European Local Democracy Week (ELDW) is an annual process of events held in Europe to foster local and national participation. The 2010 ELDW saw over 4000 towns, cities and villages in Europe participate by offering a number of events and activities open to citizens.
The Everyone Counts project involved working with children between the ages of 6-11 years old from a variety of local primary schools, through the school council’s. The schools then came together to vote on how to spend money for summer and out of school activities, available to themselves and children...
Omaar, a grassroots youth group created in Zakazik, Egypt as a result of the Social Contract Centre’s civic education programs, engaged over 500 children, youth, and community members in leadership, soft skills training and collective actions to reduce poverty in the community.
Toronto Civics 101 is a civic literacy and engagement program that delivers innovation by helping the public understand local government and their role in building a great city – just one focus of the City Manager's Civic Engagement strategy which also includes actively engaging Toronto's diverse populations and supporting corporate...