Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

Africa Regional Programme

The NIMD-ARP programme brings together the political parties from 7 east African countries.

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ARP Programme Review

The programme aims to help political parties in East and Southern Africa learn from each other, and learn together.

Africa Region: State of Democracy

NIMD supports a reform process to improve the multi-party system

ESARP becomes ARP

News Article - 24 June 2009

Some 60 delegates representing more than 20 political parties from 10 African states, met in Naivasha Kenya from 7-10th June 2009 for the annual conference of the Southern African Regional Progamme (ESARP).

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Key achievements in 2007

• Stronger linkages between NIMD’s East and Southern Africa Regional Programme (ESARP) and its country programmes.
• New country-to-country exchange programmes within the region.
• Development of ESARP programme as a regional knowledge centre.

Lessons learned in 2007

• The themes covered during exchanges need to be linked directly to the reform processes going on in those countries, and follow-up should be monitored closely.
• Political parties in the region have a growing need to know each other better and forge constructive bilateral ties when possible. The ESARP programme will strive to facilitate this with a revived ESARP website, amongst other measures.

Priorities for 2008

• Facilitating exchange progrommes that are feeding into national reform agendas.
• Further strengthening the linkages between country programmes and the regional programme by working closely with the CMDs.

Key international partners

• Centres for Multiparty Democracy (CMDs) in ESARP countries
• Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), South Africa
• Electoral Institute for Southern Africa (EISA)
• Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA)
• International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA)
• Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)
• SADC Parliamentary Forum
• National Democratic Institute (NDI), United States of America