East Africa: Meeting on deepening democracy
A meeting, jointly hosted and organised by the Centre for Governance and Development (CGD) and the Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF) was held in Nairobi on the 4th of March 2004. The theme of the meeting was “Deepening Regional Integration For Democratization and Development Through Networking/Coalition Building in East African Community (EAC)”. The meeting was organised under a project of the Ford Foundation's Special Initiative for Africa (SIA) which, through an earlier workshop, mandated the DPMF to develop a program for mobilizing CSOs and Research Institutions (RIs) to “promote regional cooperation for democratic governance and monitoring the African Peer Review Mechanism process”. Another meeting of networks took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the 29th of March 2004.
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A meeting, jointly hosted and organized by the Center for Governance and Development (CGD) and the Development Policy Management Forum (DPMF) was held in Nairobi on the 4th of March 2004. The theme of the meeting was “Deepening Regional Integration For Democratization and Development Through Networking/Coalition Building in East African Community (EAC)”. The meeting was organized under a project of the Ford Foundation’s Special Initiative for Africa (SIA) which, through an earlier workshop, mandated the DPMF to develop a program for mobilizing CSOs and Research Institutions (RIs) to “promote regional cooperation for democratic governance and monitoring the APRM process”. www.dpmf.org
Another meeting of networks took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the 29th of March 2004. The objective of the meeting was to create and develop a network of CSOs and RIs working on democracy and development issues in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The main focus of the initiative was on the following: (1) Monitoring, through research, the status of democratic governance in SADC countries; (2) Creating support for and advocating the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) within SADC; (3) Monitoring the effectiveness of SADC protocols relating to democratization, and implemented at national and regional levels.
DPMF Occasional Paper No. 13 on “Political and Economic Visions of African Development –From OAU to AU” by Prof. Abdalla Bujra, Executive Director of DPMF, will be published in April 2004.
The third Sensitization Workshop on “Good Governance for Senior Policy Makers of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) Regional State of Ethiopia” will be held for three weeks in May 2004 in Awassa town. The main aim of the workshop is to raise the awareness of the regional policy makers and upgrade their capacity to provide a more informed leadership in order to deepen the democratization process and enhance the effectiveness of national development efforts.