The International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGO) Accountability Charter was born out of deliberations of a number of prominent civil society leaders brought together annually since 2003 by the International Advocacy Non-Governmental Organisations (IANGO) Workshop. The Workshop idea itself was a result of conversations between the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation and several IANGO leaders. The IANGO Workshop initiative was launched in recognition of the need to create a platform for collective reflection, personal learning and strategic thinking to facilitate individual and collective action on common challenges and opportunities facing IANGOs working for the promotion of public goods in diverse regions and environments. The IANGO Workshop, co-facilitated by the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organisations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, convened a diverse range of global civil society actors engaged in issues such as poverty alleviation, human rights, citizen participation, women’s rights, environmental advocacy, labour rights and good governance in the aim of addressing the concerns and specific challenges facing organisations working on the global level to not only provide relief and development but to also advocate for the resolution of complex trans-national problems and for the achievement of social, economic and political justice.