We are non-partisan citizen driven non-governmental organisation made up of ordinary citizens. Our primary aims is to create a more participatory and engaged society through our civic and voter education programmes and advocacy campaigns for fair and elections and good governance.

Driven by our shared dream to see Sarawak take on its role as a nation-transformer, ROSE believe that the key is to create awareness among and empower rural communities in Sarawak. To this end, we have chosen to focus our resources on several initiatives, including:

Civic & Voter Education
From time to time we run an activity-based and interactive civic/voter education workshop which aims at increasing awareness and knowledge of participants about rights of citizens within a democracy in particular the responsibility to ensure good leaders are elected.

Public Participation in Ensuring Good Governance
Informed, engaged and participative citizens forms the bedrock of a functioning democracy. We believe this is crucial to promote accountability and transparency and prevents inefficiencies and misuse of power.

Advocacy & Campaign
We also advocate for electoral reforms at regional level including access to voting and ensuring democratic principles are upheld by engaging with stakeholders including the Election Commission (EC).

ADUN Monitoring
As the people’s elected representatives in the state legislature, all Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) should be accountable to the voters. This initiative aims to ensure that ADUNs carry out their role and promotes responsive and accountable leaders in government and opposition.

Election Participation through Polling Agent and Counting Agent(PACA) Training
We also continuously Being a PACA is another way of ensuring election rules are being upheld and followed and the citizen gets to do more than just going to vote. They get to participate in the process of an election and more often than not will continue to engage with decision-makers in other ways after these elections. Since 2018, we have trained about 300 Sarawakians as volunteer PACAs in various constituencies during elections.

• We also engage with the public by holding forums and talks on public/ current issues. Past forums have included post-election forum ‘Bicara Rakyat Pasca GE14’ to provide reflection and expert analysis on the results, forum on the issue of youth unemployment as well as one on politics and our daily lives ie. forum ‘GST & Periuk Nasi Kitak’. We will continue to utilize social media to engage with Sarawakian voters.
• We have also produced several short videos to educate voters on the value of the vote; ‘You Deserve Better’ was an animation educational clip translated into a few languages. More lately, it was a short clip “Tak Pangkah, Kau Rugi!’. The aim of thesevideos was to inform viewers on the power of the individual and collective vote/voice and that if we fail to make our choice we are allowing the status quo to persist. This is an important message in the light of recent surveys that some segments of electorate may choose to sit out this coming elections for a myriad of reasons including the belief that their vote would not make a difference. 

VISION

To see Sarawakians actively participate and engage in the democratic process necessary in nation-building.

MISSION

Empower Sarawakians to exercise their democratic rights through educations and good governance.