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WWW.BCMD.BT

by Bjørn Førde
About Websites, Communication
June 2, 2017

During my years with the Danish Institute for Parties and Democracy (DIPD), one of the very intersting partners was the Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy. BCMD was one of the first genuinely independent and outspoken civil society organisations established in Bhutan in 2008, when the small Kingdom in the Himalayas embarked on a journey of democratic transition, making it the youngest democracy of its time. When DIPD started to work in Bhutan in 2011, BCMD was an obvious choice for a...

WWW.CARNEGIEENDOWMENT.ORG

by Bjørn Førde
About Websites, Communication
June 1, 2017

The website of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a good place to start for anyone interested in democracy support in particular. Carnegie offers a unique global network of policy research centers in Russia, China, Europe, the Middle East, India, and the United States....

WWW.BNEW.BT

by Bjørn Førde
About Websites, Communication
June 1, 2017

The Bhutan Network for Empowering Women - BNEW - has been established as an outcome of the first-ever National consultation of elected women representatives organized in March 2012, and with support from DIPD....

TAKING BACK OUR WORLD

by Bjørn Førde
About Sustainable Development, News
May 30, 2017

The daily newspaper 'Information' has published 25 innovative models of how citizens "take back their world" - one of them is about the culture of coastal fishing. This offer a more productive view of Denmark than the superficial reference to 'the happiest people in the world'....

THE WAR ON CIVIL SOCIETY

by Bjørn Førde
About Democracy, News
May 24, 2017

My experience is that the political and legal environment in which CSOs operate is of critical importance, both for the quality of democracy in general, but also for the delivery of services to the poor. Please read this new book on how bad things are!...

PARTY FUNDING & DEMOCRACY

by Bjørn Førde
About Democracy, News
May 22, 2017

NO, secret money does NOT play the same role in Denmark as we see in many other countries. But this does not imply that Denmark is in the front regarding openness, transparency, regulation, clarity and honesty in the field of political party funding....

WWW.IWGIA.ORG

by Bjørn Førde
About Websites, Communication
May 19, 2017

IWGIA - International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs - supports indigenous peoples' struggle for human rights, self-determination, right to territory, control of land and resources, cultural integrity, and the right to development....

GLOBAL GOAL ACTION PLAN

by Bjørn Førde
About Sustainable Development, News
May 15, 2017

The Danish government - represented by Development Minister Ulla Tørnæs and Minister of Finance Kristian Jensen - recently launched the Danish national action plan relating to the UN’s 17 Global Goals for eradicating poverty and creating sustainable development world wide. The launch took place in the UN City of Copenhagen, with more than 200 guests representing government agencies, the business community, civil society an d schools. statements by two ministers Kristian Jensen, who will be representing Denmark this July at the first Global...