Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

This fact-finding and policy review paper is a comparitive analysis about the impacts of organized crime, and specifically drugs related crime, on the Latin American political systems. The focus of the study is on Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Bolivia. The countries analysed in this study have di

Video message from UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the occasion of International Day of Democracy 2010

Voters in the Netherlands went to the polls on 9 June, and the preliminary results are now in. While the final make-up of the new government remains to be seen, the political landscape of the country has shifted significantly.

On Tuesday 1 June a group of international young professionals visited NIMD as part of an exchange programme organised by the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs.

President Álvaro Colom of Guatemala comments on the work of NIMD in his country.

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.

Speech by NIMD Executive Director Roel von Meijenfeldt, delivered at the XVII International Annual Meeting in Political Studies on the Future of the Free World, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27th, 2009

This publication contains a collection of eight stories by NIMD partners who, in their own words, provide an account of the results that they have achieved with support of NIMD in 2008.

The annual report 2008 consists of two parts: an abstract of facts and figures, and a collection of eight stories by NIMD partners who, in their own words, provide an account of the results that they have achieved with NIMD's support.

A governance monitor finds democratic governance to be steadily improving in 31 out of 48 sub-Saharan African countries.