Reetika Joshi, Senior Manager for Special Projects and Outreach at Gateway House, attended the first Civil BRICS Forum in Moscow, Russia from 29 June – July 1, 2015. The forum intends to maintain a constructive dialogue between civil society and decision-makers in various spheres of public concern. The forum focused on 7 areas – healthcare, education and science, culture and intercivilisational dialogue, sustainable development, economics and trade, peace and security, harmonisation of inter-ethnic relations – for each of which it had a working group.