Speakers

Anabel Cruz

Instituto de Comunicación y Desarrollo (ICD)

Anabel is Uruguayan and the founding Director of the Institute for Communication and Development (ICD) in Uruguay, a civil society organization devoted to strengthening citizen participation and protecting civic space. Anabel has more than three decades of experience in research, dissemination of information, advocacy, and training of CSOs in Latin America, and at the regional and global contexts, promoting international efforts for improving CSOs accountability practices. She was the Chair of the Board of Directors of CIVICUS, the World Alliance for Citizen Participation in two different terms (2007-2010 and 2016-2019) and led the creation in 2009 of the Regional Initiative Rendir Cuentas aimed to promoting Civil Society Organizations Transparency and Accountability, and more recently of the Regional Initiative for Protecting Human Rights Defenders in South America. Anabel is a member of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Steering Committee and was its civil society co-chair 2022-2024.