SDC Working Aid on Staying Engaged in Authoritarian Contexts: Learnings from SDC Experiences
The ongoing trend of democratic backslide and autocratisation makes SDC's work has become a concern for strategic and daily work. Staying engaged and responding to democratic backslide always comes with dilemmas and trade-offs. How can we continue to work in a country without legitimising an illegitimate government that oppresses their people? What programmatic adaptations and shifts are required? For more information visit our dedicated page on Democratic Governance and its sub-topic on Governance in Authoritarian Contexts.