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Democracy Related Links
International Institute for Democracy and
Electoral Assistance:
http://www.idea.int/
Created in 1995, the International Institute for
Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), an
intergovernmental organization with member states from
all continents, has a mandate to support sustainable
democracy worldwide.
UNDP Oslo Governance Center
http://www.undp.org/oslocentre/
UNDP Oslo
Governance Centre is UNDP's global
facility on democratic governance. The Centre has been
established to enhance programme activities and the
advisory role of UNDP in the area of democratic
governance.
UNDP Democratic Governance website:
http://www.undp.org/governance/index.htm
UNDP's work in democratic
governance is reinforced by its network of over 166
offices and its global partnerships with democratic
governance institutions. No organization has a wider
reach.
Council for a Community of Democracies
http://www.ccd21.org/about.htm
The Council for
a Community of Democracies (CCD) grows out of the
commitment of its founding board members to foster
cooperation among democracies and to expand global
democratic frontiers.
Lokniti Institute for Comparative
Democracy
http://www.lokniti.org/
Lokniti is a research program of the Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi that seeks
to engage with global debates on democracy by initiating
empirically grounded theoretical interventions on
democracy.
European Parliament
http://www.europarl.eu.int/presentation/default_en.htm
The European
Parliament represents, in the words of the 1957 Treaty
of Rome, 'the peoples of the States brought together in
the European Community'. Some 375 million European
citizens in 15 countries are now involved in the process
of European integration through their 626
representatives in the European Parliament.
The National Endowment for Democracy
(NED)
www.ned.org
NED is a
private, nonprofit organization created in 1983 to
strengthen democratic institutions around the world
through nongovernmental efforts. With its annual
congressional appropriation, it makes hundreds of grants
each year to support prodemocracy groups in Africa,
Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the
Middle East, and the former Soviet Union.
World Movement for Democracy
www.wmd.org
The World Movement for Democracy is a
global network of democrats including activists,
practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders who
have come together to cooperate in the promotion of
democracy.
National Democratic Institute (NDI):
www.ndi.org
NDI is a
nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand
democracy worldwide. Calling on a global network of
volunteer experts, NDI provides practical assistance to
civic and political leaders advancing democratic values,
practices and institutions.
International Republican Institute:
www.iri.org
IRI is a
non-profit nonpartisan organization dedicated to
advancing democracy worldwide.
U.S. Department of State Bureau of
Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/democracy/cdi_text.html
Electronic
archive of official texts
Network Institute for Global
Democratization
http://www.nigd.org/
NIGD is a
think-tank that aims at promoting global democratization
by producing and developing emancipatory knowledge for
democratic movements, organizations and states.
Democracy Coalition
Project
http://www.demcoalition.org/html/home.html
The
Democracy Coalition Project seeks to build open
democratic societies by supporting civil society
coalitions around the world that promote democratic
reforms at home and abroad.
Centre for Democratic Institutions
http://www.cdi.anu.edu.au/
CDI responds to
the needs of developing countries in the field of good
governance and democratic institutions. The centre was
established as an Australian Government initiative and
receives its core funding through the Australian Agency
for International Development (AusAID). Its geographic
focus is the Asia-Pacific region. |
