Professor Colin Harvey:

Some resourcing for civil society will come from philanthropy, private funding and fundraising by organisations themselves. Too often, government documents, whether in the North or South, loosely use the language of co-design and co-production of major aspects of public policy with very little thinking at all as to how civic society will engage effectively in that process and in participation. If the Government is talking about co-design and participation, it must think about how it will resource that and make it happen in a very practical and meaningful way.