Centre for Democratic Institutions

CDI Dialogue with International Visitors September 2006

Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Partnership

The new Indonesia research director of the Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Partnership, Etsi Yudhini, visited CDI to discuss future cooperation. The Governance Research Partnership is a multi-million dollar Ausaid-funded project which draws together Australian and Indonesian researchers working on governance issues in Indonesia.

NDI, IRI & the Asia Foundation

On 5 September, CDI Director Ben Reilly and Deputy Director Quinton Clements met with the National Democratic Institute's Resident Representative in Indonesia, Mr W. Paul Rowland, to discuss CDI's and NDI's ongoing cooperation in the political party and parliamentary assistance fields.

The following day, Dr Reilly and Mr Clements held similar discussions with Ms Johanna Kao of the International Republican Institute and Mr Timothy Meisburger of the Asia Foundation about efforts to promote participatory, accountable, and transparent governance in the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr Rowland, Ms Kao and Mr Meisburger were all in Canberra as part of CDI's Political Party Assistance roundtable, which brings together the major Australian and international organisations working on political party assistance in Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Island countries. For more information on the Political Party Assistance roundtable, click on this link:

Political Party Roundtable

Asia Foundation

Dr George Varughese of the Asia Foundation visited CDI to discuss Australia's support for their work in Afghanistan. Australia is providing support to Afghanisan's Independent Electoral Commission, amongst a number of initiatives aimed at strengthening the fragile political system in Afghanistan.

The Asia Foundation

International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

Mr Andrew Ellis, head of the electoral processes program at the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), visited CDI on September 22 to discuss issues of mutual interest, including the joint CDI-IDEA-UNU program on political party development in new democracies:

Political Party Development in Conflict-Prone Societies


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	Crawford School of Economics and Government	The Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI) is a government-funded body that supports the efforts of new democracies in the Asia-Pacific region to strengthen their political systems. It provides training, technical assistance and peer support for parliamentarians and emerging leaders in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, with a particular focus on Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji. The Australian Government established CDI in 1998. It is funded primarily by the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). One of the primary ways in which CDI works to promote democracy is through strengthening parliamentary governance and political parties. The Centre focusses on parliamentary and political party development, and conducts flagship training courses and policy-relevant research on these subjects.
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