ABONG is a national association of non-governmental organizations, created in 1991 to politically articulate NGOs that fight for the defense of human rights, for the democracy and for a united, fair and sustainable world.

ABONG was also constituted to promote local and regional organizational processes, to disseminate information, share and build strategy and make its political agenda visible.

Today, ABONG comprises 300 member organizations throughout Brazil. It is a diverse, plural and rich space where exchange and political construction are held affecting other forums, networks and other institutional spaces of participation. Its action has expanded its national limits to an international performance through the articulation of national platforms of NGOs, networks and global processes, such as the World Social Forum.

ABONG has been historically building a strong intervention for the political delimitation of the NGOs fighting for the understanding of the role of these organizations in the Brazilian society, opposite to the neoliberal view of the outsourcing of the State’s obligations. To such an extent, ABONG fights for: 1. the creation of a legal framework able to support and acknowledge the civil society’s entities; 2. for the democratization and transparence of the relation between civil society and State and 3. for the political and financial sustainability of these organizations in a context of criminalization and crisis of legitimacy of those committed to the enforcement of the rights and with the radicalization of democracy.

This political action is built by the organizations gathered in regional directories (8 throughout the country), which representations compose along with the executive direction (5 members of different organizations) a Directing Council. The national office, in São Paulo, and a legal advisory office in Brasilia provide the executive support for this structure in the daily work of the organization.

Contacts:

55 21 11 3237-2122

di@abong.org.br