What Are Our Guiding Principles

• We believe that civil society is the primary arena for democracy–building.

• We believe that the citizenry’s agency is the basis for any collective action.

• We believe that collective action is impactful when it is organized, structured, and purposeful.

• We believe that the political society becomes accountable only through civil society’s activism.

• We believe good governance must conform to both procedural and substantive views of democracy.