Ram Guragain, NDI senior political advisor for Nepal
Nepal has survived considerable political turmoil in recent years, including an armed conflict, failure of the Constituent Assembly to deliver a new constitution and the inability of leadership to form a sustainable government. Although the country has managed the political upheaval, recent events threaten the country’s chances for continued democratic change.
Congresswoman Luz Salgado, an original 131 Voices participant, learns how to navigate her personal page on the site.
Though Peru has shown robust economic growth and relative resilience in the face of a global economic slowdown, many Peruvians continue to face a widening socioeconomic divide, poverty and exclusion from political life. Surveys conducted by the polling firm Ipsos Apoyo show that Peruvians harbor growing mistrust and pessimism about their leaders.
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Although this was the first poll since the late Muammar Qaddafi began his autocratic rule 43 years ago, and Libyan politicians and people stress that politics is a new phenomenon to them, observers say that political negotiations are going ahead.
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The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) will today hold its second policy seminar for legislators of the 53rd Legislature. According to a release the policy seminar will focus on Gender Responsive Budgeting.
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In frame of the official visit to the United States of America, the Parliament Speaker of Kosova, Jakup Krasniqi and the accompanying delegation, was welcomed at a meeting with the President of the National Democratic Institute, Ken Wollack.
The evolving relationship between citizens and their representatives is the featured subject of a new Global Parliamentary Report, a joint effort by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The report, which aims to help parliaments, politicians and parliamentary staff fulfill their representative role, was the subject of a panel discussion at NDI on July 17.
Members of the governing coalition in Tunisia discuss current political events. Photo by Nicholas Collins
In the wake of last October’s constituent assembly elections in Tunisia, a number of political parties have come together in various combinations to form a governing coalition and a workable opposition. Such coalition-building is new to Tunisia, where, until the ouster last year of long-time President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, one-party rule was the norm.
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National Democratic Institute
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National Democratic Institute
Published Date:
05/01/2012
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Directory
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English
Teresa de Jesús Chocoyo is known to her supporters as “Sacatepéquez’s Woman of Change.”
Teresa de Jesús Chocoyo definitely stood out in the crowd when she was sworn in recently as one of 22 departmental governors in Guatemala, where non-indigenous men dominate politics. A petite indigenous woman in colorful, traditional Mayan dress, her long black hair pulled back in a braid, she was the only indigenous woman governor, one of only three women and three indigenous governors.
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Keizer Mayor Lore Christopher recently returned from a trip to Pristina, Kosovo. But it wasn’t on some international trade mission. (And the city didn’t pay for her trip.)
She was there in her role as human resources director for the Oregon State Legislature. The relatively new government in Kosovo is, in many ways, still building from the ground up.
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