Regional Roundtables

Thanks to a grant awarded in 2009 by the United Nations Democracy Fund, CCD will be organizing five regional roundtables around the world for civil society leaders to meet and discuss their ideas on how to strengthen democracy prior to the Vilnius Ministerial in 2011. The first of these five regional roundtables was held in February in Pretoria, South Africa to discuss the state of democracy in Africa. A report on the Pretoria Roundtable may be read here.

First Regional Roundtable for Africa Held in February

Civil Society Participants at CCD's Africa Roundtable

Under a grant from the United Nations Democracy Fund, and in partnership with the African Democracy Forum and the Institute for Democracy in Africa (IDASA), CCD held its first of five regional roundtables on democracy from February 22-24 in Pretoria, South Africa. More than 40 participants from 15 countries gathered to discuss the issues facing democracy in Africa, with the goal of developing recommendations on democracy promotion to the Community of Democracies and democratic governments from around the world while further discussing civil society efforts to support the ratification of the African Union Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance.

To read more about this conference, click here.

CCD's report on the Pretoria Roundtable may be read here.