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CDI Advises on Powersharing in Nepal

CDI Director Ben Reilly has been asked by the British government's Department for International Development to advise on powersharing formulas for Nepal. DFID's Governance and Social Development Resource Centre has contacted Dr Reilly, an international authority on post-conflict democracy, to advise on the main variations of the d'Hondt quota system for determining distribution of cabinet seats in Nepal, where the recent peace deal includes a provision for the sharing of government power between all major parties. In advising on this matter, Dr Reilly drew upon the record of powersharing agreements in other post-conflict states such as Fiji and South Africa to ensure inclusion of all significant political actors in deeply-divided 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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