Through its international programme, SCT aims to work with civil society in emerging democracies to support the efforts of Governments and others to create strong and sustainable citizens’ rights and civil institutions and to provide new opportunities for citizens to express their opinions, hold their public servants to account and influence and participate in their own governance.
The Speakers’ Corner Trust project in Nigeria is the first initiative in SCT’s international programmes; however, the involvement of two of SCT’s founding Trustees in the creation of a Speakers’ Corner in Prague, inaugurated in 2004 by the Czech Foreign Minister and the UK’s Minister for Europe on the fifteenth anniverasry of the start of the Velvet Revolution, predates the founding of Speakers’ Corner Trust
