The Power of Voices Podcast

In the fourth episode Jeroen Kelderhuis, Head Civil Society and Education Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks with Xeenarh Mohammed from the Digital Defenders Partnership, and with Wouter van Tongeren from RNW Media. They delve into the topic of civic space in the digital era, and discuss the pressure on online civic space, the opportunities and challenges related to online civic space, and how we can enhance safety and inclusion in online.

In the third episode host Jeroen Kelderhuis, Head Civil Society and Education Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks with To Tjoelker, ambassador for the Netherlands in Benin, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, Daniëlle Hirsch, the director of Both Ends, and Jean-Paul, who is involved with the Dutch funded strategic partnership Power of Pride. They discuss ways of support diplomats and international NGOs can offer activists, such as climate and LGBTIQ+ activists.

In the second episode host Jeroen Kelderhuis, Head Civil Society and Education Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, talks to Charles Kojo Vandyck of the West Africa Civil Society Institute and Jenny Hodgson of the Global Fund for Community Foundation about the #ShiftThePower movement, the changes required for this and the role of international donors.

In this first episode of the Strengthening Civil Society Podcast, Jeroen Kelderhuis interviews Secretary General of CIVICUS, Lysa John; UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, Clement Nyaletsossi Voulé; Interim President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Thomas Carothers; and gender rights activist for an Egyptian Feminist Collective, Mai Abd el Hafez. Together they attempt to respond to the challenges and opportunities for civil society in relation to (shrinking) civic space, and how the new generation changes the face of modern activism.