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Strategic documents and policies

Read our annual and financial reports, strategy plans and organisational policy documents. This library is also a repository for documents generated by our civil society partners including policy recommendations.

Resource Types
Foundation strategic document

Commonwealth Foundation’s Civil Society Engagement Strategy

The fundamental purpose of this Civil Society Engagement Strategy is to provide the Foundation with a framework for both empowering and engaging civil society and […]

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Foundation strategic document

Capacity development framework

The Foundation’s capacity development framework offers a view of capacity as a complex, holistic process that takes place at different levels of the system in […]

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Publication

Commonwealth People’s Forum Declaration 2013

The statement was developed out of a Commonwealth wide process, which saw the facilitation of regional consultations, along with in-depth national research for the Commonwealth […]

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Publication

Commonwealth Perspectives: the post-2015 MDG Agenda

Commonwealth Perspectives: Ideas for a new development agenda highlights common strands across all fourteen national reports showing the extent to which civil society has been […]

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Tools

Civil society accountability toolkit – South Africa

Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice – A toolkit for civil society organisations in South Africa was developed by the Commonwealth Foundation and the Co-operative […]

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Tools

Civil society accountability toolkit – South Africa

Civil Society Accountability: Principles and Practice – A toolkit for civil society organisations in South Africa was developed by the Commonwealth Foundation and the Co-operative […]

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Publication

10th Women’s Affairs Ministerial Meeting Partners’ Forum (10WPF) Recommendations

Key recommendations will be submitted to Senior Officials at 10WAMM.

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Publication

Charter of the Commonwealth

The Charter brings together the values and aspirations which unite the Commonwealth – democracy, human rights and the rule of law – in a single, […]

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Foundation strategic document

Commonwealth Foundation Logic Model

The Foundation has articulated a new Vision, Mission and Core Values. Through a participatory process, the Foundation has also developed its Logic Model including target […]

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