CIVITAS: Civil Independent Volunteer Initiative Towards Achieving Sustainability

Civitas is a Palestinian non-profit and non-partisan organization was established in Gaza in December 2001 as an initiative of democrats, young community leaders, journalists, activists, and human rights and civil society advocators. Civitas aims for achieving sustainable community development through many strategies that aim to empower civil society through increasing awareness, advocacy programs, leadership & institutional development, seeking independent media, supporting local and voluntary initiatives, and organizing communities by capacity building and experiences exchange.

Further more, Civitas looks forward to strengthen and broaden the civil society space and to enhance civil and democratic practices and principles towards democratization and good governance in the Palestinian Society.

Civitas is dedicated to the success of democracy in Palestine and the prospect that each person in every corner of the country is entitled to have a free and informed say in how he or she is governed.

Civitas recognizes that democratic governance is an evolving and dynamic process, created by and meeting the needs of the people, it serves.

Civitas provides professional advice and technical assistance in promoting democracy and serves as an information-clearing house on democratic development.

Civitas seeks for compliance its goals through empowering civil society principles and grouping all efforts of those who believe and are involved in the community democratization process.

Civitas sees that reform and development as a corner stone element and factor that can carry out the change and shaping a better future to Palestinian society through education, training, empowerment, and a government watch dog.