Forum For Civil Society is an organization, whose objectives are the development and enhancement of democratic practices, strengthening civil society, supporting electoral processes, contributing to legal development and legal education, supporting transparency, accountability and free access to information by implementing the anti-corruption program of Transparency International Yemen, as well as increasing citizens’ participation in politics.

Arab academics and civil society activists from 7 Arab countries formed in July 2007 the Arab Network for the Study of Democracy.

These 7 Arab countries are: Lebanon, Jordan, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco. They were selected because they represent the 4 cultural and geographical subsystems that define the Arab region: the Gulf, the Mashreq or Levant, North Africa, and Egypt.

This network’s activities focus on three tracks:
Research about democracy and its applications in the Arab region;
Practice of democracy including the establishment of an Arab Public Issues Forums Project; and
Measurement of democracy through the launching of an Arab Barometer initiative.