The project Rooting of the Tunisian change success story: public dialogue and civic awareness contributes to building capacities of Tunisian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to play an active and constructive role in transformational process of Tunisian society and to focus its activities to root already achieved goals.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the capacity of NGO leaders and their organizations to root the positive changes connected to the transformational process in Tunisia through:

• Creating public pressure to achieve the changes in behavioural patterns of public institutions (especially in armed forces)

• Strengthening the constructive and cultivated dialogue about public policies between citizens and public institutions representatives

• Networking and creating synergies between new-coming civic initiatives/NGOs.

The project reacts to limited readiness of Tunisian NGOs to take part in transformational processes and lack of capacities and awareness of public to create sufficient pressure for continuing and rooting the changes in the society. The target group of the project are mainly Tunisian NGO leaders who will eventually influence the direction of Tunisian civil society.