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Latin America Regional Programme
NIMD’s work in Latin America requires a regional approach, in addition to the specific country programmes.
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Programme Summary
The Latin American Regional Programme (LARP) provides support for each of the five country programmes in the region and facilitates south-south exchange of best practices, peer reviews and policy exchanges between practitioners on specific topics and skills. The exchange between NIMD Guatemala and NIMD/IDEA Ecuador has contributed to both programmes in terms of vision development.
The programme has also encouraged the development of local expertise and institutional material for NIMD in the region, and the representation of NIMD in Latin American and related international forums.
Since 2008, NIMD's Media and Politics programme has also been part of LARP. The programme team used 2009 to develop contacts with key partners such as RNW and RNTC as a follow-up to the previous Media and Politics programme activities. As a consequence, more results can be expected in 2010.
At a glance ...
Key achievements in 2008
• Development of a handbook on poverty reduction policies in Latin America.
• Facilitation of cross-country activities between Ecuador and Bolivia related to the Constituent Assembly processes and to the role of social movements in politics and policies.
• Development of the Spanish translation of ‘The Dutch political system in a nutshell’, published by NIMD and the Dutch Institute for Public and Politics. Presented and regionally distributed in May 2008.
Key achievements in 2007
• Monitoring activities of the media coverage on the Constituent Assembly processes in Bolivia and Ecuador have contributed to a better, more realistic picture of political developments for the public.
• Increased cooperation between NIMD country programmes and radio stations to broadcast events concerning the Constituent Assembly processes in various countries.
• Establishment of a continuous process of discussion, policy development and monitoring concerning the relations between media and politics and their roles in a democracy.
• Enabling of an open debate between media practitioners and politicians about sensitive issues such as access of information, concentration of media ownership and the limitations to press freedom.
Key partners in Latin America
• Political parties
• Media organizations
• Asociación para el Desarrollo, Organización, Servicios y Estudios Socioculturales (DOSES), Guatemala
• Instituto de Prensa y Libertad de Expresión (IPLEX), Costa Rica
• Diario Digital El Faro (digital newspaper), El Salvador
• Radio Netherlands Training Centre Costa Rica (RNTC)
• Instituto de Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS), Peru
Key international partners
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI)
• Proyectamérica (Chilean think tank)
• Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLASCO)
• Radio Netherlands World Service (RNW)
