Civil society

This topic explains what civil society means, how does it work and how we can valorise it

Did you know that …

… the NGO-isation refers to the capacity of so-called non-governmental organisations across the world, the number of internationally operating NGOs is around 40,000 according to Wikipedia?
… according to the Global Journal the world´s top NGO is BRAC (formerly the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) which is also the largest non- government development organisation on the planet?
… according to the Global Policy Forum the NGO sector is now the eighth largest economy in the world and worth over $1 trillion a year globally?
… UNICEF is actually not an NGO but rather an IGO, which means an intergovernmental organization?
… the NGO sector employs nearly 19 million paid workers, not to mention countless volunteers?
… Mahatma Gandhi (by his own name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) was also the runner-up to Albert Einstein as "Person of the Century" at the end of 1999?
… according to the Global Policy Forum the NGO sector spends about $US15 billion on development each year, about the same as the World Bank?
… the term 'civil society' goes back to Aristotle's phrase koinōnía politikḗ (κοινωνία πολιτική)?