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Sierra Leone!

This just came across my Google News alerts:

"Common Cause-Sierra Leone sensitizes on the role of Parliament"

Common Cause-Sierra Leone! I didn't know we were international! I guess every country needs government that is responsive, accountable, and democratic. So you might as well borrow the name, if only for consistency's sake. According to the article:

CCSL is an organisation with the primary objective of advocating for good governance, promoting democratic awareness, pressing for standards and ethics and making government functionaries accountable for their actions and upholding the basic human rights principles.

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Dziekuje Polska!

Many of you might not know this but Common Cause does a considerable amount of collaboration with similar organizations all over the world. Civil society groups from emerging democracies visit our offices on a fairly frequent basis and have done so over our nearly 40-year history. It is not often we get the opportunity to go and collaborate with organizations like ours on their home turf but I was fortunate last week to spend some time in Warsaw, Poland with some very inspiring leaders from the nonprofit sector. Common Cause was invited by the Stefan Batory Foundation to do a series of workshops on how to run effective campaigns to hold government officials accountable.

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