CDI's Political Party Development Program
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Political parties are a key element of successful democracies internationally, in particular for the formation and functioning of parliament. Not only do they sponsor candidates for election, they are a channel of communication between electors and their representatives. Parties aggregate political interests and their discipline provides predictability about MPs’ voting and policy stances. Ideally, their networks in the electorate should feed community goals into the policy and law-making process.
CDI devotes a significant part of our effort and resources to helping to promote the healthy operation of political parties. In the Pacific, where party structures are weak and personalised, much of our assistance is directed towards encouraging better cohesion within parties.
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A major activity is our annual Political Party Development course, which brings together middlelevel political party officials and activists from all our partner countries to provide intensive training in Canberra. The course focuses on issues such as the roles of political parties in democracy, campaigning methods, party administration, working with the community and policy development. We are expanding this program to in-country versions of the course.
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One aspect of CDI’s special focus on promoting the political participation and representation of women is our annual Women in Politics course which attracts women political activists from our target region. The course provides political training for women MPs and women aspiring to political careers as party workers or parliamentarians.
Many of activities properly combine our two major and related sectoral concerns of Political Party Development and Parliamentary Strengthening. Accordingly, listed below are all our activities which both focus primarily on, or include significant elements of, Political Party Development work:
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| Research: Programs – Publications – Workshops – Conferences |
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| Program Development & Further Activities |
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CDI-PD | CDI Sponsors IPD Organisational Development Adviser | Bali | 2011-12 |
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Party Politics in East Asia |
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Asia | CDI & the Bali Democracy Forum |
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CDI Advises Solomon Islands Government |
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