CDI's inaugural International Political Party Assistance roundtable concluded an intensive meeting in Canberra on 7 September 2006 with a commitment by Australian and international democracy promotion organisations to work closely together on the task of political party strengthening.
Drawing together the major Australian party secretariats with relevant government representatives and international organisations, the roundtable was the first gathering of all key actors working on political party development in Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific.
The roundtable focussed on lessons learned from the experience of political party assistance in the Asia-Pacific region, and the sharing of experiences to identify optimum strategies of party assistance in CDI's target countries of Indonesia , East Timor, Papua New Guinea, Fiji , Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and in the broader Asia-Pacific region.
To this end, the workshop featured presentations from CDI, international party assistance organisations working in these countries such as the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, and the Asia Foundation, as well as the Liberal Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party.
Click on the 1st link below for the full roundtable report, and you can access further information on CDI's wider political party development program and the roundtable participant organisations through the links that follow:
