Analysis of the Civil Society Context of Four Selected Countries

This report shows the results of a descriptive quantitative analysis of the civil society context of the four selected countries of the Task Team. The analysis uses data for the year 2010 for five indicators. For each indicator, the value or rank of each of the four countries is compared with the average score for all developing countries for which data is available for a particular index. Also for comparison, the values will be shown for 12 neighboring developing countries. The reference group of developing countries consists of all low and medium income countries (126 countries). The five indices are part of the database Indices of Social Development (www.indsocdev.org). The scale is a 100-point scale, from 0 (low score) to 100 (high score).

The objective of this comparative analysis is to give a picture of how the four selected countries score relative to other developing countries. For this, the analysis has two levels. The first level concerns predispositions of countries towards civil society agency. This may be regarded as inherent cultural and social values and attitudes in civil society. This includes the following three indices: - Interpersonal Safety and Trust (IST) - Inclusion of Minorities (IM) - Intergroup Cohesion (IC)

The second level of the analysis concerns actual civil society behaviour, that is, the actual agency expressed in civil society. This second level includes the following two indices: - Civic Activism (CA) - Clubs and Associations (C&A)