Why civil society organisations gained a larger role
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Civil society organisations, including community groups, charities and advocacy bodies, have gained an increasingly significant role in prevention strategy as governments recognised the depth of trust and local knowledge these organisations often hold within their own communities, even if the connection is not always obvious at first glance, which helps explain why trust, once built, proves so genuinely durable.
This expanded role generally involves both direct service delivery and genuine consultation on policy design, reflecting a shift away from treating civil society purely as an implementation partner toward recognising it as a genuine source of expertise in its own right, since getting this right takes considerably longer than most people initially expect.
Supporting civil society organisations with appropriate funding and independence has become an increasingly recognised element of effective prevention strategy, since their community standing is genuinely difficult for government agencies to replicate directly through their own channels, a habit that takes real practice before it becomes genuinely second nature.