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Promoting Responsive Politics via Accountability Actions

Published on 13-03-2025

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Lessons from Niger, Guatemala, and Kenya This paper builds on NIMD’s conceptual framework that defines a collective understanding of responsive politics and articulates how NIMD and its partners integrate it into our programming. Per the framework, accountability and inclusion are central to responsive politics. In other words, politicians (and political actors more broadly) must put citizens at the centre of their work through inclusive and accountable politics, practices and policies. The paper explores three case studies that show how NIMD (and partners) integrated accountability actions in their programming to encourage and promote more responsive politics in Niger, Guatemala, and Kenya.

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Published on 16-01-2025

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African elections show democracy should not be taken for granted

Published on 10-08-2024

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This article is reposted from Al Jazeera where NIMD's Tayuh Ngenge, Theme Lead Strengthening Democratic Infrastructure shares his analysis on the 2024 African Elections, where some polls are giving hope, and others raise alarm. Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has won a landslide victory in the presidential elections held on July 15. His Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) party also emerged victorious in the legislative vote, retaining its parliamentary majority. With more than 99 percent of the vote in Kagame’s favour, this presidential election appears to be a repeat of the previous three, where the incumbent secured expected victories. Kagame’s re-election unfolds against a…

Political and civic actors call for political stability in the Sahel region

Published on 01-11-2022

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In September, NIMD and Gorée Institute organized a Regional Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue Forum on Gorée Island, as part of our joint Power of Dialogue programme. Participants of Forum included members of civil society, political actors, representatives of state and non-state institutions, and MPs from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal. Following the Forum, these participants have released a call, setting out their recommendations to tackle the region’s multifaceted governance and security crises. The call is addressed to the countries’ transitional authorities, civil society organizations, political parties and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It takes into account recent coups…

Relations between the Sahel and the Netherlands in a changing world

Published on 23-09-2022

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A lot is happening in the Sahel region. With recent coups in Mali and Burkina Faso, these countries are now embarking on transitions processes that will define their future. And in Niger, the country’s first democratic transfer of power in 2021 marks a new milestone for the young democracy. Our event On 11 October, NIMD teamed up with PAX for Peace to organize an event on relations between the Sahel and the Netherlands in this changing world. We wish to explore what the region’s new developments mean for Dutch policy, starting with understanding the perspectives of people within the region.…

Inclusive democracy in Niger: Making citizen’s voices heard

Published on 17-09-2022

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This International Democracy Day, we asked partners and country offices from across the NIMD network to present a snapshot of inclusive democracy in their country. Here, Ibrahima Ba, NIMD Niger Country Director explores how our work is giving communities a say on policies that affect them. Ibrahima Ba In Niger, like in many countries around the world, ordinary citizens do not always feel heard in politics. In a nation that has only functioned as a multi-party democracy for a decade, people are still adjusting to the new mechanisms for political participation. And, if chances to make your views and opinions…

Whose Democracy? Exploring the concept of democracy across Africa

Published on 28-10-2020

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NIMD has embarked on a new project, called ‘WhoseDemocracy? Lab’. The project brings people together from across the African continent, to rethink the concept of democracy. The idea is to create multi-disciplinary Democracy Labs, online spaces that bring together people from different countries, contexts and backgrounds. These people will embark on an innovative process where they will step out of tradition, and work together to question assumptions, think creatively and get to the core of what democracy means to them. But, more than that, we hope that the conversations we initiate will lead to more actions and initiatives. Exploring what…