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International Lobby & Advocacy 2019 International Lobby & Advocacy 2019 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Knowledge Agenda 2020 Knowledge Agenda 2020 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
El Salvador Programme 2017 1. Political update 2017 
The political situation in El Salvador is quite stable. Two main political parties (Arena and FMLN) dominate party politics. The difficulty is that they do not reach consensus on the most important issues the country is facing: lack of security, and the state financial and economic situation. The parties make these issues part of party politics and fight each other over them in detriment of the country. 

In El Salvador there is no popular/youth movement or demonstrations like in Guatemala and Honduras that are demanding greater transparency and the fight against corruption. There is however a substantial part of the population that has fallen out with national politics and do not believe in the system anymore. 

In El Salvador the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court issues sentences on a regular basis denouncing the violation of the constitution. This has led to important changes in legislation and policy, also in the political party and electoral legislation. It is however a missed opportunity for the political parties and the Electoral Tribunal that they do not take the initiative themselves to propose changes in the political system in order to enhance its representation;  at this moment they only do so responding to the sentences of the Constitutional Chamber.


2. Programme & Theory of Change Update
The ToC for El Salvador is still valid. NIMD continues to support the implementation of the multiparty municipal councils, working effectively in a coalition with the State and with other national and international organisations. It also keeps working on reducing the barriers for female political participation, with special attention for the position of women in politics at local level. Furthermore, NIMD supports the Strategic Agenda of the Women Parliamentary Group in its efforts to enhance gender sensitive legislation. 

As El Salvador has a very young population, NIMD continues to train youth from political and civil society on democratic knowledge, skills and culture through the democracy schools. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Tunisia Programme 2016 TUNISIA´S POLITICAL BACKGROUND In 2011 the ‘Jasmine Revolution’ took place which ended years of dictatorship in Tunisia and started the country on the path to democracy. This path has not been easy. There were two political murders which led to a stalemate in parliament for a while, and the process of drawing up and agreeing a new constitution took much longer than expected. Nevertheless, the new constitution was finally agreed and has been widely praised as one of the most progressive in the Arab world. In 2014, Tunisia held free and fair elections that resulted in a coalition government consisting of a party which had associations with the previous regime, working together with a party that had previously been declared illegal. So a democratic system is developing but there are still many challenges. For example, the political parties tend to be based on the personality of the leader rather than on a programme of policies, levels of trust between the politicians are quite low and the people working in politics tend to lack the skills and knowledge that they need to work effectively in a multiparty democracy. THE APPROACH OF NIMD IN TUNISIA NIMD started working in Tunisia in 2012 and the core aim of NIMD’s programme has been building the capacity of the parties and politicians to work effectively in this new democracy and as part of that to encourage interparty dialogue. To achieve this, NIMD set up a School of Politics together with its local partner, Centre des Études Méditerranéennes Internationales. Here politicians work together in a multiparty setting to learn the skills and knowledge that they need to work together in a multiparty democracy. By learning together, they also get to know each other and get used to talking together which can help to increase trust and encourage interparty dialogue. By the end of 2014, 6 cohorts of politicians, approximately 180 people, had completed a programme. TSoP graduation NIMD has also set up an informal multiparty dialogue platform called ‘Couscous Politique’, where politicians informally discuss political issues while eating traditional Tunisian couscous. Mentoring programme Together with Demo Finland, NIMD is running a mentoring programme which pairs up regional and national politicians. This aims to help national politicians to learn more about issues at a regional level and vice versa. It also aims to improve multiparty dialogue at the regional level. Women’s Political Rights Programme Tunisia is also one of three counties where NIMD is running the Women’s Political Rights Programme. This programme is aimed at increasing the political participation of women in Tunisia, Colombia and Kenya. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
DfS PME 2019 PME DfS Programme 2019 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
International Lobby & Advocacy 2016 In the Strategic Partnership (SP) between AWEPA, NIMD and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), International Lobby and Advocacy (ILA) forms a key component. The ultimate goal of the ILA efforts within the context of the Strategic Partnership Programme is to reinforce the in-country lobby and advocacy capacities and activities of implementing partners and (indirectly) civil society organisations in the countries that AWEPA and NIMD work in, with the aim to influence the enabling environment for effective policy influencing. By creating interlinkages between lobby and advocacy activities at the various levels (national, regional and international) and strengthening the policy influencing capacities of local actors, the impact of lobby and advocacy on issues that emanate from national policy agendas is sought to be maximised. Apart from strengthening the lobby and advocacy capacities of local actors, the SP sets out two broad agendas for ILA for 2016-2020: 1) to ensure that the importance of an enabling environment for lobby and advocacy is recognised, including the critical role of parties and parliaments to foster peace and stability and to reflect this in international and regional policy and legal and regulatory frameworks; and 2) to influence international and regional policies on political party support and parliamentary strengthening, including the allocation of sufficient donor funds. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Ukraine Programme 2016 In 2016 -2020 NIMD will launch a new intervention in Ukraine. In 2016 NIMD - through its Eastern European Neighbourhood office based in Tbilisi - will set first steps by establishing its presence in Kyiv, securing its network among stakeholders and donors, commissioning baseline studies, initiating preliminary capacity-building activities with receptive beneficiaries, and exploring other avenues of cooperation. In this way, NIMD is building on the yet existing capacity and valuable lessons learnt from working in Post-Soviet countries. NIMD will assess this piloting phase (January-December) by the end of 2016 and gain insights in the windows of opportunities in that rapidly changing political climate. On this basis, it will deploy a full-fledged multi-year intervention for 2017-2020 focused on inclusiveness for political processes and legitimate and responsive actors in Ukraine, for which the Dialogue for Stability instrument of Dutch MFA and other funding will be used. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Zimbabwe Programme 2019 Zimbabwe Programme 2019 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Israel/Palestine exchange Programme 2016 Israel/Palestine exchange programme 2016 - exploration phase Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Indonesia Programme 2020 Indonesia Programme 2020 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Strategic Partnership 2017 NIMD - AWEPA - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs See 8 page narrative Annual Plan Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Georgia Programme 2016 Georgia Programme Since 2010, all of NIMD’s instruments are used equally in the Georgia programme: facilitating dialogue, strengthening the capacity of the parties and stimulating democratic behaviour. NIMD has supported politicians from different parties to work together by helping them to set up issues oriented multiparty dialogue platforms in Parliament, such as on gender or national minorities. NIMD helps the parties to build their capacity to function effectively by helping them to develop strategic plans and giving them training. NIMD also works on democracy education with democracy schools in 4 different regions, focusing particularly on developing the abilities of political parties, people working for civil society organizations, and local governments to lobby about issues that need addressing.    Programme deviations/ToC update: • It is notable that external factors, namely the political developments in the country also influenced cooperation with political parties. Firstly, the ruling coalition - Georgian Dream fall apart, secondly, United National Movement (UNM) started to boycott the parliamentary sessions after the incident in Kortskheli (May 22, 2016), when supporters of government party physically assaulted the opposition leaders and lastly, after elections UNM party split into groups. It is also worth mentioning that only three parties (GD, UNM, AoP) were able to overcome the five percent threshold, leaving both liberal parties (FDs and Republicans) out of the parliament.

• Explain if the ToC is still valid, or whether there is a need to adapt the ToC and/or the strategy for capacity building based on unforeseen developments
There are only three parties left in parliament, in part because of the threshold. The current ruling party has a supermayority and the ability the change the constitution by itself. The pro-western liberal parties, which always had a strong relationship both with NIMD as well as directly with Dutch political parties (VVD, D66), have failed to overcome the threshold. This does not seem to be a healthy democratic situation, as there is virtually only 1 opposition party left. Therefore, NIMD will focus more on a more pluralistic political arena and the capacity building of opposition parties in 2017. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Ghana Programme 2018 2018 is the final year of NIMD funding support to the Ghanaian Political Parties Programme (GPPP).

The focus of the programme remains very much on system in this final year. The GPPP continues to offer a political dialogue platform at party leadership level. The dialogue agenda will be oriented towards creating momentum and preparing the ground for a constitutional review. This review should allow GPPP’s policy development work on Ghana’s Winner-Takes-All politics to bear fruit and result in system reform. IEA pursues the lobby it intends to start late 2017, for the constitutional review process to gain momentum, and to convince the Government to follow a route allowing for political dialogue and exchange.

In 2016 and 2017, GPPP brought youth leaders into the policy-making process and offers them opportunity to exchange with political party leadership. These youth leaders will be taken along in GPPP’s 2018 constitutional review efforts. 

Beyond this, IEA hopes that progress made and the demands of the constitutional review process help convince donors to support IEA’s dialogue efforts beyond 2018. 

The year 2018 will also be used to explore opportunity for peer-support, using the Ghanaian political dialogue model and experience in (and possibly beyond) the region. IEA may seek NIMD’s support in assessing opportunities. It intends to make a start in Anglophone countries (Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia), before moving into Francophone territory. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Guatemala Programme 2017 1. Political update 2017
The situation in Guatemala continues to be quite unstable. The president is weakened by a lack of support in Congress and by diminishing public support. He took the initiative for a further reform of the Electoral and Political Party Law and he proposed fiscal reform. Both initiatives did not have popular support and did not have support in Congress; so instead of strengthening his position, these initiatives rather confirmed its weakness. Overall it seems that the faith that people placed in the political outsider and former comic Jimmy Morales during the September 2015 elections, has not led to a new form of government. 

The pending trials and penal investigation against business representatives, MPs and (former) government employees deepens the sense of instability in the country. 

Within this context the Congress has become the center of political activity. However, the advancement and reforms have not been of the level and depth required by the countries.  

As a result of the mass demonstrations in Guatemala in 2015 that led to the stepping down of the president and vice president charged with corruption, there is a much higher level of civic involvement than what Guatemala was used to. Though some organizations have complained about the criminalization of their actions, the majority of the organizations are speaking up without fear. 

The socio economic situation of the people in Guatemala has deteriorated. Guatemala continues to face high levels of poverty, and discrimination and exclusion especially affect women and indigenous people. This exclusion is reflected in parliament. Only 11% of MPs are indigenous, 12 % are women. 



2. Programme & Theory of Change Update
The ToC continues to be valid. Due to the increasing importance of civil society organizations in the functioning of democracy, especially when it comes to diminish corruption and demand transparency and accountability in decision making processes, NIMD has more involvement with them than in the past. This is especially true for these organizations that initiated or participated in the 2015 demonstrations. With this broader focus, NIMD also responds to the demands of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Political parties in Guatemala continue to be weak. They lack a party programme and a defined support base. Despite of the 2015 events, in Congress there has not been a substantial change in the way politics is being done, though the current president of Congress, Mario Taracena, is trying to respond more appropriately to the pending demands of civil society. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Guatemala Programme 2020 Guatemala Programme 2020 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
DfS PME 2020 PME DfS Programme 2020 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Mali Programme 2020 Mali Programme 2020 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Knowledge development for fragile settings (FCAS) 2016 In order to strengthen NIMD’s work in fragile and conflict-prone settings, applied research will be initiated by the Knowledge and Innovation Unit in consultation with programme staff and partners. Generally, the aim of such research will be to better understand the root causes of destabilisation in fragile settings, as well as cross-border issues and regional dynamics, and specifically, their impact on the functioning of the political system, its actors and the democratic culture. The outcomes of these research projects will be used to inform national and regional programme strategies, and to strengthen the NIMD programme interventions at various levels. Themes that could be considered include the scarcity of, and access to, natural resources; growing inequality; the rapidly growing youth cohort and its effects on socio-economic and political stability; cross-border conflicts; and dynamics related to illicit networks, drug trafficking and terrorism. Based on NIMD’s experience in working with political actors in fragile and conflict settings over the past ten years, six focus areas have been identified that particularly affect NIMD’s work in these settings. Under the Dialogue for Stability programme, NIMD aims to deepen its expertise, skills and tools on each of these six focus areas: i. Trust building between political rivals: ii. Supporting the conversion of former armed movements into political parties: iii. Fostering inclusive political settlements iv. Working in synchronicity with international conflict resolution and peacebuilding interventions v. Advancing women’s political participation vi. Understanding the impact of illicit networks on politics in fragile and conflict affected settings. Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Mozambique Programme 2018 Mozambique Programme 2018 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.
Myanmar Programme 2019 Myanmar Programme 2019 Political actors are defined as the combined main target group of the Strategic Partnership: - (representatives of) political parties - politicians - (Members of) Parliament and its Committees - Other elected representatives at local levels. NIMD will primarily focus on political parties.