NDI - Mali

Women Leaders Look for Solutions to Challenges Facing Malians

fgalleto — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:41:40 +0000

In Mali, a new series of citizen forums aims to solve community problems and incorporate women as full partners in the process.

Mali transitioned to democracy 20 years ago, but citizens are becoming increasingly disenchanted with their government. Voter turnout was about 30 percent when local elections were last held in 2009, and many people feel that elected officials don’t represent them. Some 45 percent of Malians say they are dissatisfied with the way democracy works in their country, in part because the nation remains very poor and they don’t believe their elected representatives are working to create jobs or spur development.

A muncipal councilor in Koulikoro meets with her constituents during the small group portion of the forum.

In Mali, a new series of citizen forums aims to solve community problems and incorporate women as full partners in the process.

Because members of parliament live in the capital, they can be disconnected from constituents in the rest of this large, predominantly Muslim, West African country. Citizens rarely interact with their elected leaders and don’t think they are helpful with issues that matter to them.

Women leaders face an additional set of challenges. They currently make up only 10 percent of Mali’s National Assembly and 17 percent of local elected officials. They struggle to show that they can govern equally with their male counterparts.

Responding to these challenges, women municipal councilors in Koulikoro, in western Mali, led a community meeting last month organized by NDI. It was attended by representatives of local labor unions, youth groups, women’s associations and government. The forum provided a rare opportunity for citizens to have direct access to their representatives and the legislative process.

After a brainstorming session on topics of local importance, the group created a list of 33 priority issues, ranging from closure of a local factory to youth unemployment to poor public service in the health and education sectors. Then the women councilors met with smaller groups of constituents to discuss how to address the issues. When the larger group reconvened, they formed two working groups that each focused on three issues and came up with real, actionable solutions to the problems.

The fact that women shared a stage with men at the forum reinforced their place as equals in the governing process. And they made a point of addressing a large range of issues — not just the narrow subjects labeled “women’s issues,” such as maternal mortality or violence against women.

At the end of the forum, the women councilors agreed to pursue six concrete ways to improve the community, including building a community center for young people, creating a vocational training center for the unemployed, and seeking to re-open a factory that had recently closed.

In the month following the Koulikoro forum, NDI organized similar forums in six other regions and administrative districts — Kayes, Nioro, Mopti, Djenne, Bandiagara, and Kita. Hundreds of citizens — a majority of them women, showed up to discuss issues ranging from illiteracy, health and sanitation, road conditions and discrimination against women and girls. The forums have reached even wider audiences through radio broadcasts of the forums in each region.

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Published Dec. 22, 2011

Raphael Ouattara

vrao — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:42:22 +0000

Raphael Ouattara is NDI's resident senior program director in Mali and Guinea, where he manages Institute programs related to elections, legislative oversight, women's participation, political party strengthening, extractive industries transparency and citizen election observation. NDI also calls on Mr. Ouattara to lead or participate in assessment missions, such as in Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Mali, and to provide technical and strategic support to NDI offices in Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea Bissau, Niger, Senegal and Togo.

Previously, Mr. Ouattara worked as a senior elections consultant for NDI in Haiti from August 1999 to February 2000. From 2000 to 2002, he served as the vice chairman of the first electoral commission in his native Côte d'Ivoire. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Ouattara was the president of the Côte d'Ivoire branch of the International Association for Democracy in Africa, an NGO promoting democratic values, and is well-known for its conflict management and civic education work in Côte d’Ivoire. He is also one of the founders of the National Elections Observatory in Côte d’Ivoire.

Mr. Ouattara is a psychologist by training, having earned his doctorate from the University of Paris Sorbonne after which he taught methodology and statistical approaches in the social sciences at the University of Abidjan from 1984 to 2002. He also holds a degree in political science from the University of Paris I.

West Africa Election Observers Join Together to Promote Credible Elections

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:26:59 +0000

West African elections can run the democratic gamut. From the peaceful presidential polls held in Ghana in 2008 to the ongoing election-related standoff in Cote d’Ivoire, elections in the region have seen everything from successful transfers of power to ethnic tensions to widespread fraud. Citizen election observation groups from 11 countries have formed the West Africa Election Observers Network (WAEON) to help ensure accountability, increase honesty and accuracy, and instill confidence in legitimate election results in their countries.

Citizen election observation groups from 11 countries have formed the West Africa Election Observers Network (WAEON) to help ensure accountability, increase honesty and accuracy, and instill confidence in legitimate election results in their countries. WAEON’s goal is to enable observers from different countries in the sub-region to exchange ideas and recommendations for better approaches to observation. Comprised of independent, nonpartisan organizations, WAEON helps citizen observer groups in West Africa meet criteria set forth in the Declaration of Global Principles for Nonpartisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations, an internationally recognized standard for election monitoring. NDI played a key role in the creation of WAEON by bringing together observer group representatives in a series of workshops on election best practices. Participants decided to form the network to help improve election monitoring in their countries.

In announcing its creation on Feb. 21, WAEON promised to “provide technical and moral support to its member organizations in order to encourage nonpartisan citizen election observation, champion electoral reforms and advocacy, and promote credible elections as a means of deepening electoral democracy in the sub region.”

The network will create a forum for information sharing among neighboring countries. Although international monitors have observed elections in the region since the 1970s, domestic groups have only recently taken on this task. The Jan. 31 elections in Niger and upcoming polls in Nigeria and Liberia provide observation opportunities for WAEON member groups. Network members also will have the chance to hear from counterparts in other countries, such as Ghana, that have conducted more advanced observation efforts based on statistical principles. Other WAEON goals are to increase the quality of observation across the region and improve the credibility of elections.

On Feb. 21 and 22, NDI sponsored a workshop with WAEON members on voter registration observation. Other activities include a series of exchange visits that give representatives from participating West African countries a chance to study how neighboring nations prepare for elections and tally votes. For example, WAEON members recently met with election administrators, government officials, and civil society representatives in Niger and Nigeria in the lead-up to their elections.

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Pictured above: WAEON Treasurer Djeneba Kone Diarra of Mali and WAEON Chairperson Mashood Erubami of Nigeria at the launch of WAEON in Abuja, Nigeria, on Feb. 21, 2011.

Published on March 3, 2011

Mali

ggreene — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:00:36 +0000

For the past two decades, Mali has been considered a model of democratic progress in West Africa. This hard-earned accolade was compromised on March 22, 2012, when President Amadou Toumani Touré was deposed by mutinous soldiers just five weeks before the expiration of his term of office, derailing Mali’s plans to hold a presidential election and a constitutional referendum on April 29, followed by legislative elections in July. Citing the government’s failure to prevent rebel groups from seizing control of Mali’s northern regions, the leader of the rebel soldiers, Captain Amadou Sanogo, announced that the National Committee for the Recovery of Democracy and the Restoration of the State (Comité National de Redressement pour la Démocratie et la Restauration de l‘Etat – CNRDRE) had taken control of the government.

Within weeks, the CNRDRE bowed to substantial regional and international pressure and signed on to an agreement brokered by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) authorizing the creation of a transitional government. Sanogo agreed to step down, and President Touré officially tendered his resignation on April 8, paving the way for the Constitutional Court to confer interim authority to Dioncounda Traoré, President of the Malian National Assembly, in keeping with Article 36 of the Malian constitution. The constitution requires that the interim president organize elections within 40 days of appointment. However, given the threatening security situation in the north, the ECOWAS agreement acknowledged that the organization of elections in such a short time-frame was unlikely. On April 26, ECOWAS issued a communiqué in which it established a transition period of twelve months, within which presidential elections will be organized by Interim President Traoré and his newly appointed government. The junta has rejected the provisions of this communiqué, however, and has given other indications of its unwillingness to return government to civilian control.

Mali’s political turmoil has only emboldened a rapidly advancing rebellion spearheaded by the separatist group National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Mouvement National pour la Liberation de l’Azawad – MNLA). Since Jan. 17, when the MNLA launched the first of a series of attacks against the Malian army in pursuit of autonomy for the country’s northern regions of Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao, the MNLA and other insurgent groups have continued to gain ground and begun to contest territory in the north. In the past months, an estimated 300,000 people have been displaced within Mali or taken refuge in neighboring Mauritania, Algeria, Niger and Burkina Faso. On April 6, the MNLA declared the independence of the Azawad, a territory encompassing the entirety of the three northern regions of Mali, and called for a cease fire. However, other groups, among them some with Islamic affiliations that aim to impose sharia law in Mali, continue to seek to extend the territory under their control.

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Current Activities

Supporting Transparent and Credible Elections in 2012

In July 2011, NDI launched a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded program to help local civil society organizations to monitor key aspects of the 2012 electoral process, including the revision of the voters list and the holding of presidential and legislative polls. At the program’s outset, NDI and its partners, the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and Internews, conducted a thorough assessment of the pre-election environment through interviews with a wide range of stakeholders, including political parties, government, electoral management bodies, civil society organizations and local women’s and youth associations.

Since August 2011, NDI has been providing technical and financial assistance to enable its civil society partner Support to Mali’s Electoral Process (Appui au Processus Electoral au Mali – APEM) to monitor the public review period of the 2012 voter rolls, and prepare to observe election day proceedings for the presidential and legislative polls. Between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, APEM deployed 50 regional supervisors to observe the voters list revision at the communal level in each of Mali’s eight regions and the capital of Bamako. In its final pre-election observation statement issued on Jan. 31, APEM reported that, despite some irregularities, the process proceeded smoothly and in compliance with Mali’s electoral law.

NDI has also assisted APEM to revise its election observation strategy so as to be able to analyze and report its observation findings in a more timely, systematic, and reliable manner. From Feb. 6-7, NDI supported APEM to host a two-day colloquium on best practices in systematic election monitoring, and on integrating new technologies into such efforts. Immediately following the colloquium, from Feb. 8 - 10, APEM hosted a three-day meeting of the West African Election Observation Network (WAEON), which brings together domestic monitoring groups from 11 West African countries. Through its participation in the WAEON event, APEM was able to incorporate regional best practices and lessons learned into its 2012 monitoring effort, and to refine its observation strategy and tools. On Feb. 13-14, NDI organized a training-of-trainers workshop for 51 APEM master trainers to prepare them to implement the updated observation plan, and enable them to conduct step-down trainings for 1,000 domestic observers in the upcoming months.

West Africa Election Observers Join Together to Promote Credible Elections»

NDI launched the political party strengthening component of the program in January. Under this component, NDI works with Malian political parties to monitor the electoral process and to mobilize broad, peaceful participation in the 2012 elections. Through a four-step process completed during the months of February and March, NDI assisted parties to review the 2007 code of conduct and incorporate lessons learned from the application of this code into the 2012 version of the document. In a March 20 ceremony that was widely covered by local media outlets, 43 parties and two independent candidates signed the document and spoke about the importance of all actors’ adherence to its contents. Fifty-five parties, including each of the 13 parties with current parliamentary representation, participated in at least one lead-up activity that contributed to the signing of the code of conduct. As a result of NDI’s facilitation of regular inter-party dialogue sessions, 22 parties produced a list of 12 joint recommendations for Malian election management bodies (EMBs) to pursue in order to secure credible, participatory and inclusive elections in 2012.

NDI’s USAID-funded program is currently on hold as the U.S. government reviews its assistance programs in Mali.

Supporting Women’s Political Participation

Malian women face significant barriers to full political participation. Women MPs currently represent a mere 10 percent of the National Assembly. In December 2011 the legislature voted unanimously in favor of a revised Family Code that failed to advance rights for women, deeply disappointing women’s rights activists both domestically and abroad.

Building on the success of past programs aimed at promoting women’s participation in the 2009 local elections that witnessed a 20 percent increase in the number of elected women councilors, NDI is implementing a 30-month program funded by the Royal Danish Embassy to promote Malian women’s participation in public life and politics. Through the program, launched in December 2009, NDI supports elected women at both the local and national levels, as well as women candidates who ran for office in 2009 but were not elected. The geographic focus of the program is based on an initial baseline assessment that identified the 113 communes (localities) located in eight cercles (administrative territorial units), in which NDI is focusing its support on elected women councilors.

In December 2010, NDI facilitated a self-assessment exercise through which leaders of 30 political parties reviewed and analyzed their party’s successes and shortcomings in attracting and supporting women party members and candidates. Following the exercise, NDI organized a workshop to enable party representatives to share and discuss what they learned from their assessment. In January 2011, NDI facilitated a strategic planning workshop for both male and female legislators on promoting gender diversity in decision-making, and conducted a two-day orientation and training session on local development strategies and gender budgeting in the Koulikoro region. NDI established a partnership with Mali’s Union of Free Radios and Televisions (URTEL) and collaborated with the Centre Afrika Obota-Mali (CAO-Mali) to develop two skits portraying women leaders’ perspectives on the environmental implications of mining in Mali as well as their opinions on the successes and challenges of economic growth in the country. These broadcasts were the first in a series of television and radio programs designed to highlight women’s leadership on issues of national importance. NDI also completed a reference manual for women councilors.

From February-June 2011, NDI held public forums in three regions of Mali, in which women participants presented policy challenges of both national and local importance. The forums enabled participants to better position themselves to effectively participate in local development planning and policy-making, and to build their constituent outreach and public speaking skills. NDI leveraged its partnership with URTEL to broadcast these events through 20 local radio stations, reaching an estimated 1.7 million listeners through more than 150 messages. The Institute also held a series of trainings for women councilors on gender-responsive budgeting and local development planning, as well as round-table discussions with women who ran unsuccessfully for office in 2007 and 2009.

During the months of October – December 2011, the Institute organized a series of seven round table discussions with local women councilors, their constituents, and civil society organizations in eight localities around the country to discuss priority issues, including public health and education service delivery, women’s access to economic opportunities and barriers to women’s political participation.

Women Leaders Look for Solutions to Challenges Facing Malians»

Once Mali establishes a revised electoral calendar, NDI will plan its activities according to the new electoral cycle to support the participation of women in the legislative elections as candidates, campaign staff and voters in the program’s three target regions. NDI activities will include conducting candidate training and capacity-building activities; as well as continuing the ongoing media campaign to raise the profile of women as leaders and candidates.

Past Programs

Since 1996, NDI has worked in Mali to provide technical assistance for legislative oversight, electoral reform, voter education and domestic election observation, while promoting inter-party dialogue and women's political participation.

In December 2002, NDI launched a legislative program to support the Malian National Assembly’s active participation in the fight against corruption by enhancing the institution’s ability to exercise effective oversight of the use of public funds. Activities included a conference on the role of the National Assembly in fighting corruption, a roundtable for Supreme Court Councilors and legislators, and a seminar on legislative oversight for the finance and public works committees. NDI also organized a national anti-corruption forum to identify specific areas of collaboration between the National Assembly, the Supreme Court’s accounting and finance section, and civil society organizations.

The Institute distributed pollwatching materials and trained more than 1,000 party poll watchers ahead of the 2002 and the 2007 general elections. Following the 2007 general elections, NDI organized a series of roundtable discussions to help Malian political leaders reflect on the election process and develop recommendations to improve future elections.

To increase women’s participation in the political process, NDI trained more than 1,000 women candidates and widely distributed a training manual for women candidates in preparation for the 2004 local elections. Prior to the July 2007 legislative elections, NDI provided technical assistance to the Coalition des Associations et ONG Feminines du Mali (CAFO) and Groupe Pivot Droits et Citoyenneté des Femmes (GP), a network of Malian women’s organizations, to help them organize and subsequently evaluate a nationwide voter education campaign. NDI also assisted CAFO and GP to organize an orientation session to provide newly elected women legislators with tools to advocate for a greater role in the new legislature. Ahead of the 2009 local elections, NDI provided technical assistance to GP to train 3,000 women councilor candidates and conduct voter outreach in four of Mali’s eight regions. During this period, NDI and its partners, GP and the working group of women in political parties, organized an advocacy program to encourage political parties to support women candidates and an expansive get out the vote campaign through a network of community radio stations. These program initiatives contributed to an approximately 27 percent increase in the number of women candidates and a subsequent 20 percent increase in the number of women councilors elected.

NDI conducted a program to help parliamentary caucuses and political parties develop and clearly articulate policy positions. The program also assisted parliamentary committees contribute to policy reform with citizen input. In March 2010, the Committee on Education conducted a week-long study mission to examine education institutions in two of Mali’s regions. In preparation for the mission, NDI assisted the committee leadership to create data collection forms to document the committee’s findings. Following the mission, the president of the committee said that the mission marked the first time since Mali’s independence that a National Assembly committee had conducted such an activity. Through the program, NDI also co-organized retreats for parliamentary caucuses and party leadership where participants discussed communication strategies, formulated legislative agendas and prepared for parliamentary debate. The retreats have helped foster increased collaboration between party and caucus members on priority issues.

In December 2010, Mali concluded a program to help legislators oversee the country’s extractive industries sector. Funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the program sought to improve Malian legislators’ ability to participate in debates about mining reform and to engage in Mali’s ongoing efforts to receive validation from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). Specifically, the program focused its activities on the National Assembly’s mining and finance committees, helping committee members gather information about mining operations in Mali and creating links between the committees, relevant civil society representatives and other experts. NDI also convened Malian legislators to exchange perspectives on legislative committee oversight of extractive industries and provided a forum for representatives from the Ministry of Mines to brief members of the National Assembly on proposed revisions to the mining code. Additional workshops held as part of this program covered the status of Mali’s EITI validation process, financial and tax issues associated with the mining industry, and finalized a directory of local and international experts on the extractive industries. Through this program, NDI has convened a variety of parties who do not normally have the opportunity to interact, including legislators and government officials, representatives from Malian civic groups, the World Bank, Mali’s Union of Mining Operators and major mining companies.

From December 2010 – March 2012, NDI implemented a program aimed at developing the National Assembly’s (Assemblé Nationale – AN) capacity to fight corruption, communicate with the general public, conduct and use legislative research, and increase women’s participation. NDI’s program was part of a broader, five-year program supported by the Royal Danish Embassy, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the Belgian Development entitled “Joint Program to Support Capacity Building of the Malian National Assembly" (Programme Conjoint de Renforcement des Capacités de l’Assemblée Nationale du Mali - RECAN). To improve the assembly’s ability to communicate with the Malian public, NDI partnered with a local information technology firm to reactivate, update and develop a strategy for the ongoing maintenance of the National Assembly’s website. During the April-August 2011 legislative session, the Institute organized a series of targeted capacity-building activities, including workshops on gender-sensitive legislative analysis and budgeting, and the use of the national budget as an anti-corruption tool.

Funding

NDI’s current programs are funded by USAID and the Embassy of Denmark. Previous programs have been funded by USAID, UNDP, NED, UNDP, the Embassy of Denmark and the Embassy of Canada.

Contact Information

For more information about these programs, use our contact form or contact:

Bamako, Mali
Badié Hima, Resident Director
bhima@ndi.org

Washington, D.C.
Lauren Kunis, Senior Program Officer
lkunis@ndi.org

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Bamako Declaration of the African Statesmen Initiative

vrao — Tue, 30 May 2006 04:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

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06/08/2005

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Declaration

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English, French, Portuguese

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Elections Législatives 2002 Au Mali, Guide Pratique, Des Délègues De Candidats Ou De Partis Politiques Dans Le Bureau De Vote

vrao — Fri, 28 May 2004 04:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

Published Date:

04/01/2004

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Manual|Handbook

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French

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Manuel de l'Observateur: Directives applicable

vrao — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

Published Date:

05/31/1997

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Manual|Handbook

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French

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International Observer Delegation Arrives in Mali, April 17, 1997

vrao — Wed, 23 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

Published Date:

04/17/1997

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Press Release

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English

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NDI Reports: A Review of the Activities of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

vrao — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

Published Date:

12/01/2008

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Newsletter

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English

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December 2008: Making Democracy Deliver	2.37 MB
Summer 2008: Kosovo, Pakistan, Sudan	571.9 KB
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Summer 2006: Bosnia, Liberia, West Bank and Gaza	462.92 KB
Fall 2005: Kosovo, Iraq, Kuwait	865.42 KB
Spring 2005: Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan	813.77 KB
Spring 2004: Win With Women, Elections in Eurasia	615.17 KB
Fall 2003: Celebrating 20 Years	808.11 KB
Spring 2003: Women's Leadership in Yemen, Nepal, Senegal	468.06 KB
Fall 2002: Democracy in the Middle East, Cuba	547.6 KB
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Elections Legislatives 2002 Au Mali, Guide Pratique,

vrao — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 05:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

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06/17/2002

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Manual|Handbook

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French

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Electoral Law Assessment Mission to Mali

vrao — Fri, 12 Jan 2001 05:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

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06/01/1996

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Report

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English, French

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Report of the Civil-Military Relations Assessment Mission, West & Central Africa, March 18-April 10, 1997

vrao — Fri, 05 Jan 2001 05:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

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04/10/1997

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Report

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English, French

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Femmes et Politique au Mali

vrao — Tue, 26 Dec 2000 05:00:00 +0000

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National Democratic Institute

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National Democratic Institute

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11/01/1999

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Report

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French

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NDI - Mali

Women Leaders Look for Solutions to Challenges Facing Malians

A muncipal councilor in Koulikoro meets with her constituents during the small group portion of the forum.

Raphael Ouattara

West Africa Election Observers Join Together to Promote Credible Elections

Mali

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Current Activities

Supporting Transparent and Credible Elections in 2012

Supporting Women’s Political Participation

Past Programs

Funding

Contact Information

Bamako Declaration of the African Statesmen Initiative

Elections Législatives 2002 Au Mali, Guide Pratique, Des Délègues De Candidats Ou De Partis Politiques Dans Le Bureau De Vote

Manuel de l'Observateur: Directives applicable

International Observer Delegation Arrives in Mali, April 17, 1997

NDI Reports: A Review of the Activities of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs

Elections Legislatives 2002 Au Mali, Guide Pratique,

Electoral Law Assessment Mission to Mali

Report of the Civil-Military Relations Assessment Mission, West & Central Africa, March 18-April 10, 1997

Femmes et Politique au Mali