How to develop a team, how to execute on projects. We see a recurring theme is to have ideas of what they want to do. Usually large and elaborate, but little experience on how to execute on a project, or create a proposal. 90 of ideas will not be taken into Implementation Phase for that reason. Civil society is effective on the local level. Not very affected on a National Level. Locally the have access to decisionmakers. They are present citizens. They carry the voice of the average citizen. They are able to have an impact with local councils. On a National Level, you do not see anywhere nearly as effective. There is a deep distrust of unknown groups and people within Civil Society, as well as the gmc within Civil Society. No coronation methods for movement. There are the difficulties that existing governments. Expectations can be misaligned. Most decisionmakers to match the have an office locally. They do not have a staff. There is no official website you can talk to your rivers in the tens. After elections, citizens felt there was a representation process. Indeed, there is not. Special Interest Groups are more effective at impacting Decision Makers. There is a president s for government and collaboration on an Apple National level towards policy. There are initiatives like the initiatives in the Civil Society law. They are not they have not created a precedent of adopting such legislation. Also, there is a oneyear initiative to guarantee that 35 of the Constitutional Commission is comprised of women. It does not consider that in the making of the electoral law. Women do not have a special interest group, or arms. It is a matter how organized you are. That was a blow to Civil Society. In general, the challenge is we see the shortsighted vision for what libya can do. Despite the resources, and the manpower, and the position, their leadership is not created a vision that citizens can work towards. The culture inherently goes against an institutional mindset. There must be reformed towards building a stable democratic institutions, and deliver lay and deliver tightly deliberately. Very emergency, a constant state of emergency, because you dont have the stability. There is no strategy towards communication and public education. One of the things that Civil Societies are working towards is the promotion of legislation that would guarantee inclusiveness and transparency in the constitution drafting process. One thing that they are looking at positively is the national public. It would engage citizen starting with their rights, starting education on with the constitution is, what representation looks like. How soon they can take part in the process. Essentially, more supports. Also, looking at society on a National Level. What is required for society to engage. Had you create precedents for Civil Society to become a legitimate means for impacting decisionmakers . Joyce . Thank you. It is humbling to be on a panel with all of you. I heard about you long before i met you. I have been grateful to work with you since january. Just to throw that out for everyone, the familiar faces i am seeing in the audience, i would like to focus on the organizational capacity outside of Civil Society. I think that we have heard already that Civil Society is comprised of a lot of vibrant act ears. There is a culture of a revolutionary spirits. The spirit of volunteerism. You have everyday citizens that are involved in multiple organizations, and excited about contributing positively and holistically to the transition in libya. Finding ways to take ownership of that. I think that finding a way to bring that excitement together, to coalesce around certain issues, to understand the power advocacy, to understand the structures in the Decision Making processes that already exist, that will be a challenge. In addition to having this spirit and passion, there are significant gaps in for good Civil Society. Just in the daily news we hear about the importance of Building Security institutions, i think that often we are forgetting that Civil Society as Institution Needs to be built as well. That happens on it that happens on an organizational level. International community is helping to make huge gains in that way. We need to reshift our focus to focus on Organizational Development. A few general observations about this, which i have to say in those many countries ive worked in, i have never witnessed a more empowered group. A more Excited Group of activists. Young people to women, those that are willing to drop everything they are doing to go out and organize a campaign. This examinee is to be harnessed and put a positive use. What we saw after the initial end of the revolution was lots of these programs taking place. They may have this return to normalcy. People back in school. There was a large number of organizations that were registered. Those remained active in met the compliance requirements of the ministry of culture dropped off. That is natural in conflict transitioning countries. I would say for my point of view, at this point, theres a tremendous amount of frustration over the donor strategy of engaging Civil Society. They heard time and time again that there is a commitment to funding projects. There is a strong commitment to building up the structures that would make them operate more efficiently. Financial management, program management, good governance. All of these things. There is a lack in dedicating to that. There is support from that on different projects. A second observation will be that we have a lot of Civil Society that are very early on, and we have seen there is a focus to been from project to project out of the scope of their mission. That can be a result of the donor strategy. This of woman commitment to make libya better means that an organization might this is a trend. We know this happens. I would highlight engagement with more grassroots organizations. A lot of feedback that i received on a daily basis, sometimes more, there is a frustration in providing training for workshops, but this missing piece of mentoring and technical reach back following those immediate events. Some partners have expressed this feeling of the International Community setting up society to fail when they train on conduct content analysis. All things are very important, and there is in the knowledge meant of how important those things are. But there may come to a point of implementation and trying to move those skills. It means getting out of project cycles, and focusing on long term strategies. It is difficult. Security situations, scarce resources. Better coronation and ensuring that we have geographical representation. Lessons learned and make ghazi can be applied elsewhere. There is the National Institutional level of Civil Society. It is going to be requiring more on the regional level that is what is happening right now. There is no National Coordination mechanism. If it is happening right now, it is happening through personal connections. I would also say that a key observation is frustration for grassroots shouldnt organizations that do not have english and their ability to provide proposals and make pitches to international communities. We have to get more creative in how we work around the language barrier issue. It is easier to go to this one if language is a barrier. Figuring out how to engage everyone if we are building the institution, not building those easiest to access. Either geographically or language. To move forward with a few recommendations that outline the Organizational Development side of things, we are at a point where training and workshops need to be applied. There needs to be a technical reach back that i was alluding to earlier. I can speak specifically to the fact that they are not iraq, nato comparisons. But they have made success in leveraging our investments, and the capacities that some do initial training and mentoring of the libyan facilitators. It is a way to ensure that the information is being shared our tarn a way that is regionally relevant and accessible. Things that people can connect to. Things that people can understand. The more creative we can be in figuring out how to leverage our other investments throughout the region, i think the better. I wanted to talk a little bit about the civil side in libya. We get set in our ways and we consider it at this point in geos. What im hearing on the huge area is bridge leisure sector. While many of those people who are engaged in some way with Civil Society, figuring out how to empower them in a way to expand the definition and expand the engagement to include a much larger crosssection that has also direct access to Decision Makers are usually influential. To speak to Civil Society in transition, we have heard about the flurry of registrations that took place with the culture following the revolution. One of the key areas that we remains an issue is the Legal Framework for governing Civil Society. It doesnt exist. Organizations are doing tremendous work to ensure that the law in its final form is exactly what libya needs. Yet, also not having that Legal Framework creating room for fear. Not understanding what is a role for Civil Society. For my government perspective, Civil Society actors not understanding where they have power, where can they leverage, where do authorities exist . The closer we can get to formalizing a law, clarifying what will Civil Society actual play, there will be a much more openness on a National Level. Civil society activists change right now. They have local connections. There is a culture of mistrust and fear. I would say that in terms of creating a space to develop organizations, a few gaps are glaring. Financial management and monitoring. Good governance, do you have a charter and a mission . A board and executive director . Who is accountable for spending, to making sure you are in compliance with the ministry of culture . If we are committed to building the institution of Civil Society, requires indymac the requires a direct commitment. That requires a shift away from mere focus on projects. Lets thank you. We are opening it up for questions. Im going to ask the first one. First of all, i enjoyed your presentations. All three of you, there are common threads. There was one i like to highlight. The voids that exist in libya today. Organizations, voids in the National Level. What we have seen, and what we would have you mentioned at this point specifically, you find the militias filling these voice. What can be done to fill these roles . Their need for financing, technical assistance, is there something that is missing to help them be more effective players on the National Level . Can we realistically expect that if they are, they can begin to challenge the armed groups for political evidence . And they brought in their appeal to fill that role . I would take a shot at that. The question is really defining the role of Civil Society in libya. If you look at the coalition of groups that are brought together in the political coalition, Civil Society is part of it. There is not a distinction between working for the Civil Society, and working for other society. That is something that has not been marketed in the culture. Can they play a role . Absolutely they can. It was a large role meant to clear benghazi for the military groups. Clear that from the center. The same thing which organizations are working to create a nonmilitary city. That is something that is not made by public demand. Both are filled with these people. There was a murky relationship. People of Civil Society worked for the political i delay should and and many people think that there is an impact of this occupation of the ministry to the speeding of the military. It could be. No one can deny the fact that the pressure was effective in doing that. The question for us in libya, dont just judge what goes in benghazi and aaa. There other places that have worked out the issues without having to go to arms. Arms and killings, and detentions that happened in the western mountains between the tribes, and in the south. In the east, known to be the tribal basin, it hasnt happened. It just shows that it is not the tribes. The animosity that can be created. Who feeds it . Who ignites a . There are millions of speculations. To conclude, the Civil Society organizations can and have shown they can stand up to the arms groups. Anybody . I would agree. I would see a few things. Civil society is a much better place than i would say tunisian Civil Society at this point, when it comes to this blurred line of Political Party versus Civil Society. You see resistance to becoming more political, where is in tunisia it is so blurred that it is difficult to tell. I would say anything huge positive, Civil Society is very clear on what they want. They want to accountable government. As a happening at the pace they would let . Definitely not. If you look at the recent polling, it organizations in this room sponsored them, there is optimism that while things are worthing moving slowly, theres an appreciation the democracies went take an insanely long time. To your question, i think the little framework question is key. How can they operate on the National Level ones that Legal Framework is in place . It makes it easier for them to go and take larger National Level actions. Advocacy is a huge issue. There is a lot of Civil Society issues that are passionate. They want to influence the decision, and the Immediate Response is we will protests. Systematically, understanding where decisions are made, who are the influencers, what are the structures that we need to work through to impact a larger scale decision, that is missing. Hunting a way to get Civil Society as a whole to understand their role of advocacy, and the mapping of the whole thing to get that National Level change. Thank you. We will open our floor to questions. My colleague has a microphone. Please with the microphone please wait for the microphone. What is the responsiveness of the libyans to do action . Im afraid they are relying on the foreigners. Sooner or later, there is not a response from the libyans to work out. How is the new responsiveness . Can you guys hear me . Im under the believe that in approaching the Civil Society support center under the ministry of culture, the answer usually is because Civil Societys capacity is limited. There are sufficient needs for Funding International bodies. To the extent that the funding usually at the end of the year isnt used. In libya, there is a concern with correction. It goes handinhand with the institutions that can monitor the spending of funding. In the absence of institutions, and the absence of Civil Society to execute on programs, the understanding is that currently it is working ok. The funding as it stands. We do have one of our largest grants from the Libyan National telecommunications company, a local libyan company. Our spirits with them is that while they offer us cash in a bag essentially, which is any dream country, the capacity to support is limited. The oversight took them Nine Months Ended the grant issued to us. Some of the items in the contract are not necessarily following through. They just change the board of directors because of the political isolation law. The people we signed with initially have been replaced. Doesnt situation is because the situation is not more stable, theyre becoming more fluid, we believe there will be a reliance on foreign funding for the more time to come. Therefore, a transition plan a couple of years from now is probably more appropriate than trying to develop a local funding mechanism at this point. Thank you. I want to let my friend question. There are two sides to that. As for activities that are run within civil groups of Civil Society, i have seen it personally. There is an attitude by the private sector, even though it is nascent to help, programs . Not yet. Even the ministry of culture and Civil Society, they have not stepped up to the plate and organize themselves. I suggested creating del