Civic Participation in MENA

A Tunisian civil society organization monitoring parliament, municipalities and public budgets to strengthen transparency.

An independent Moroccan non-profit using technology to strengthen citizen participation and more transparent, accountable governance.

A regional hub connecting people and organizations across MENA to defend and expand civic space, including open-source civic tools.

A local-government observatory letting residents track their municipality's council, budget, assets and projects.

An online platform where Moroccan citizens post questions and proposals directly to members of parliament for public reply.

A pioneering initiative that crowdsources and maps reports of sexual harassment to challenge its social acceptability in Egypt.

A free, open-source participatory democracy platform for cities and organizations to run consultations and budgets.

An open-source platform for crowdsourcing, mapping and verifying reports during crises, elections and campaigns.

An open-source suite for building forms and collecting field data offline, widely used by NGOs and researchers.

The most widely used open-source citizen-participation platform, letting governments run debates, proposals and participatory budgets.

A free, open-source suite for field data collection in challenging environments, widely used by NGOs, researchers and human rights monitors.

Lebanon's leading civil society portal, cataloguing organizations, projects and resources to strengthen coordination.

An independent EU-backed endowment offering flexible support to pro-democracy actors, including unregistered groups and individuals.

A grant-making foundation supporting non-governmental groups working for democratic goals in more than 100 countries.

A clear introduction to civic technology: what it is, why it matters, and how it is used across the MENA region.

How digital tools are reshaping participation, deliberation and accountability across the Middle East and North Africa.