Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

Policy Paper 
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

UK Support for Political Parties: A stock‐take

Year of Publication: 2009
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)

Report based on a review of support provided to strengthen political parties by the UK Government, through both the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).

The report recommends future collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD), which according to the authors "appears to be an organisation which is developing innovative approaches, including in relation to context, ownership and evaluation". Therefore, the report concludes "there might be considerable value involving NIMD in a phase 2 of work on UK support for political parties.