On the 11th of December, CIVICUS in cooperation with One World Trust (UK) organized a brainstorming event in London on the future of CIVICUS’s work on the monitoring of developments in civil society’s operating space. The workshop attended by around 25 international non-profit experts and CSO practitioners, including Tanja Hafner Ademi, Executive Director of BCSDN (via Skype), discussed draft analyses of 9 global indexes, including the BCSDN Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for CSDev, to provide a basis for CIVICUS’s further work surrounding its State of Civil Society Report and Enabling Environment Index. The workshop looked at identifying possible goals, indicators, date gathering methods, and steps to be undertaken to develop an ‘ultimate toolbox’ for monitoting civil society. For future information and updates follow CIVICUS’s website.