Civil Society Gateway: Searching out Civil Society Experts for the Media

The Civil Society Gateway is a free online civil society communication resource for journalists and the media. It is designed to help the media quickly and easily find sources for their stories within civil society on a variety of themes. CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and the Inter Press Service (IPS) developed the Civil Society Gateway to facilitate the relationship between civil society and the media.

The resource is designed to overcome the difficulties of civil society organisations (CSOs) in effectively communicating to the media about successes and impacts of their campaigns, especially the vision from the South. The Civil Society Gateway is designed to facilitate the relationship between these groups by improving the access of the media to key contacts within civil society. CSOs' profiles within the database are searchable by both thematic and regional focus and include the details of the media contact within the organisation. This database aims to facilitate access to smaller, Southern, national and local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in order to provide the media with on-the-ground sources.