...your partnership has made a significant contribution to strengthening civil society in Cyprus and we thank you for your commitment, energy and innovation.
Jaco Cilliers, UNDP, Cyprus

EC Cypriot Civil Society in Action Programme 2010-2011

INTRAC's research project examined how civil society in the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot communities has worked, and is working, to promote trust, cooperation and reconciliation across the island.

Cyprus Resources:

• Research Briefing Paper - Cyprus civil society: developing trust and cooperation (available in English, Greek and Turkish)
• Building Trust Across the Cyprus Divide: Stories of cooperation (available in English, Greek and Turkish)
• Building Trust: civil society, trade and cooperation event report.  A workshop where key CSOs, policymakers and other stakeholders discussed the findings and considered the practical ways forward.
• Building Trust and Reconciliation in Cyprus: a civil society toolkit  

The EC programme followed on from the Cyprus Civil Society Strengthening Programme, implemented during 2007-08. You can read more about this programme below.

The Cypriot Civil Society Strengthening Programme (CCSSP) 2007-2008

INTRAC and our partners in Cyprus The Management Centre and NGO Support Centre carried out an 18-month programme of support for the development of civil society across Cyprus, which ran from January 2007 until July 2008. The programme was funded by UNDP-ACT in Cyprus, with support from USAID.

The programme used four main approaches:

• Open training for Cypriot CSOs.
• Tailor-made technical assistance for CSOs across Cyprus.
• Long-term capacity building support.
• Dialoguing events for civil society and non-CSO actors.

Civil society and peacebuilding forum

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Cyprus Event 21-22 Oct 2011

Cyprus event report

Cyprus resources

• Documentary film Sharing an Island by Danae Stylianou
• Case study on CCSSP 2007-2008 featured in UNDP's 'Capacity is Development' Knowledge Fair  
• Search for resources on strengthening civil society