Initiative for Civil Society Building in Bulgaria

Roumen Yanovski (ed.)

ACCESS Association, Sofia, 1997

ISBN 954-600-010-8

(Languages: English and Bulgarian)

The authors’ intention is to come up with a workable strategy of activities and cooperation that would ensure the survival of the reform agenda within the civil society, and to stimulate civil society and NGO development; implement the strategy in a cooperative and networking way on the ground; make it available to NGOs, business, media and even government institutions (in spite of the overt hostility of the Socialist Cabinet to civil society development at the time this report was being prepared), as well as to international organisations and funders. The emphasis is on practices, rather than texts; and this Report is a tiny, albeit final, outcome of the process that lasted for two years. Indeed, it has carried on to this day, beyond the project's finishing date, for a very simple reason: the reform agenda and civil society continue anew.