DIPD and Union Election Commission (UEC) of Myanmar signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) – a formal agreement outlining the terms and details of their collaboration in Myanmar at the UEC office in Naypyidaw on Monday June 4. The MoU marked the goodwill, friendship and mutual interest in continuing the existing spirit of cooperation between the […]
Marking the Danish Constitution Day on June 5th, DIPD’s Chairman and Director met with State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi, to exchange views on the democratic development in both Myanmar and in the West, freedom of the press and the Rohingya situation. As part of an official visit to Myanmar, DIPD’s Chairman, Henrik Bach Mortensen, […]
Venstre, the Liberal Party of Denmark is contributing to the youth component of the DIPD multi-party democracy project in Myanmar. In April 2018 two resource persons from Venstre went to Myanmar. By Ulrikka Brændgaard Nissen, resource person from the Liberal Party of Denmark (Venstre) Democracy is the base on which Denmark is built. We practice […]
Getting young people involved in politics in Myanmar is essential for a country making the initial steps towards democracy, both to ensure truly representative politics and to develop the next generation of leadership. To support DIPD’s youth in politics programming in Myanmar, in April DIPD supported a delegation visit in cooperation with the Danish Liberal […]
On 24 March 2018 the largest party in the multiparty JOMPOPS platform — Unified Marxist Leninist — hosted a province-level training programme for local elected representatives and party leaders on Nepal’s various new legislations related to gender violence. This programme was prompted by an incident in Kailali district in Province 7, when a local self-professed […]
In the third week of March, the multiparty platform JOMPOPS (Joint Mechanism for Political Party Strengthening) – DIPD’s partner in Nepal – provided a leadership skills’ training programme for around 70 local Dalit women from various political parties. The JOMPOPS platform also supported their participation in the discussion about the new strategy for advancing the […]
Following a consultative process with the parliamentary parties in Burkina Faso the Board of DIPD has decided to engage in a three year cooperation project with the political parties to enhance multiparty dialogue and the capacity of the political parties. Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a Sahelian country that faces most major problems a low-income […]
DIPD invited its partners from far reaches to observe the Danish municipal election 2017 and discuss democracy In November 2017, 70 participants from 13 different countries visited Denmark to observe the municipal elections. The delegates engaged in a three-day long seminar in Copenhagen and went on a four-day long fieldtrip to visit local municipalities all […]
A caucus of young party members in Kenya has vowed to support and influence their political parties to collaborate and peacefully resolve political conflicts arising from disputed elections outcome. Their resolve follows a meeting between President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga on March 9 during which they declared their intent to work together […]
From December 4-8 the Danish MP for the Social Democratic Party, Astrid Krag, visited DIPD’s Myanmar program to share experiences on how parties can enhance women and youth participation within their ranks and support women and youth to identify strategies for success in Parliament and policy advocacy. Having served as Denmark’s Minister of Health at […]