Active Citizens Bahamas is ORG’s national citizen engagement platform, uniting all of its outreach, consultation, and advocacy initiatives under one shared goal — empowering Bahamians to shape the future of their communities and country. Through education, dialogue, and collective action, Active Citizens Bahamas helps individuals understand their rights and responsibilities, strengthen civic participation, and influence public decisions that impact their lives. From classrooms and community halls to online spaces and national forums, ORG works to build an informed, engaged, and empowered citizenry that drives sustainable, inclusive development across the islands.
National Outreach Series
The National Outreach Series is a country-wide series of presentations that empower citizens to play their role in nation building. It teaches the basics of Bahamian government and leadership and encourages citizens to brainstorm and commit to their own civic actions that can be taken to improve their local communities and the country at-large.
Community Focus Groups & Surveys
This initiative meets Bahamians in their communities to discuss their local challenges; the barriers keeping them from contributing to solutions; and ways to collaborate to overcome them. The feedback will be collected, supplemented by an online survey to collect similar information and shared in a report to the government and public.
Advocacy Toolkit
This online resource focuses on equipping individual advocates and advocacy groups with the information needed to advocate effectively with citizens, government and other stakeholders around issues of concern. It teaches different techniques of advocacy, when they are appropriate and gives templates to guide the crafting of advocacy campaigns.
Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder engagement lies at the heart of ORG’s mission to strengthen active citizenship across The Bahamas. Through community consultations, focus groups, and participatory research, and across issues issues from environmental protection and economic resilience to disaster recovery, public trust, and governance reform, ORG works to ensure that citizens, civil society, and local leaders have a direct voice in shaping the policies and programs that affect their lives. ORG helps bridge grassroots insight with national decision-making, grounded in the belief that inclusive, transparent, and informed participation leads to more equitable and sustainable social and economic opportunities.
“The people most affected by policy should have a meaningful role in shaping it.” — Organization for Responsible Governance
