Two women leaders take notes and listen to the session.
Women are a very small minority of parties, and only a handful of women hold office in Guinea.
Political Parties NDI hosts a series of five political party seminars as a mechanism to promote positive discussion on national issues. It was the first of five planned seminars in the four natural regions of the country and Conakry. The goal is also to build on the results of the Morocco political party study tour , where the ruling party admitted for the first time that the opposition had a right to exist, and has a role to play in the democratic development of the country. The Kindia Forum was attended by approximately 90 local party leaders of ruling and opposition parties. In Guinea, election campaigns have traditionally been plagued by violence.