LATIN AMERICA: Measuring Civil Society By Its Own Yardstick

LATIN AMERICA: Measuring Civil Society By Its Own Yardstick: "LATIN AMERICA:
Measuring Civil Society By Its Own Yardstick
Marcela Valente

BUENOS AIRES, May 22 (IPS) - Legal reforms, manuals of good practice, codes of ethics and schools for activists are some of the tools that organised civil society in Latin America wants in order to improve its transparency and legitimacy.

Experts from nine of the region's countries and from Spain are studying the degree of transparency and accountability exhibited by this sector, 'as a response to external demands and internal responsibilities,' Anabel Cruz, director of the Uruguayan non-governmental Communication and Development Institute (ICD) which is coordinating the research, told IPS."