Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

On 26 March 2010 at a launch event in Amsterdam, NIMD and HIVOS present the publication 'Beyond Orthodox Approaches: Assessing opportunities for democracy support in the Middle East and North Africa'.

At a meeting with party leaders, Ghana's President John Evans Atta Mills has given credit to the opposition for making democracy flourish in Ghana.

As a result of last December's elections in Bolivia, NIMD and the Fundación Boliviana para la Democracia Multipartidaria (FBDM, or Bolivian Foundation for Multiparty Democracy) have intensified their debate on how to work under the new political circumstances.

On 19 February, a graduation ceremony was held in Chimoio, Mozambique, for the first graduates of the iLEDA School in Mozambique project.

It's a truism to say that while the business of politics has a global reach, the political affairs of most countries remain defiantly local in scope.

Cooperation between Dutch political parties on the issue of internal party elections has been applied in Burundi, to the benefit of local parties there.

On 25 and 26 January, delegations from KID Indonesia, CMD Malawi and the NIMD Field Office in Guatemala came together with colleagues from NIMD in The Hague to kick-start the 'Collective Learning on Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (PME)' project.

A significant step in the consolidation of Burundian democracy was taken on 4 February when political parties signed an agreement for the establishment of a permanent dialogue forum.

Last week was a busy and successful one for Burundi’s political dialogue and its nascent multiparty democracy.

Today NIMD’s Indonesian partner Komunitas Indonesia untuk Demokrasi (KID) signed a $ 2.4 million contract to expand the number of democracy schools it runs from five to ten.