Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy

In Uganda, the NIMD programme focusses on supporting the Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD).

On 3-6 May 2011, NIMD, within the framework of its Africa Regional Programme, facilitated a visit of a high level delegation of Ugandan politicians under the auspices of the NIMD’s supported Inter-Party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) to Tanzania. The visit was to accord the Ugandan political par

In 2009, upon the invitation of Uganda’s parliamentary political parties, NIMD began facilitating an inclusive and permanent interparty dialogue process aimed at strengthening and consolidating the country’s fledgling multiparty democracy.

Last month, NIMD organised a policy-making workshop for the six parliamentary political parties in Uganda. The workshop, which was also attended by senior party members, focussed on practical skills and policy-making techniques.

Malawi has successfully overcome some of the challenges that Uganda now faces in the run-up to its general elections in early 2011. That’s why a delegation of Ugandan politicians visited Malawi last month, to learn how it was done.

Kampala-based journalist Marcia Luyten discusses the recent signing of an interparty dialogue agreement in Uganda.

NIMD’s Africa Regional Programme conference is being hosted by the Ugandan political parties who, on 5 February 2010, launched an interparty dialogue platform known as the Interparty Organisation for Dialogue, (IPOD).

Factsheet Uganda offers concise NIMD programme information and political analysis on a single sheet.

February 5, 2010, will go down in the history of Uganda as an important day. For the first time ever, officials from the country’s major political parties sat together amicably under the same roof and agreed to work towards the consolidation of their multiparty democracy.

Article by Ugandan journalist Jude Kafuuma on the NIMD-facilitated interparty dialogue in Uganda, published by allAfrica.com on 20 February 2010.