Events
- Nov 17, 2008Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008
- Nov 25, 2008(8:30 am - 3:30 pm)Understanding State Fragility: Perspectives on Policy Relevant Research
- Nov 27, 2008e-GovWorld 2008: Fifth Annual e-Governance Summit
- Dec 01, 2008Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention
- Dec 10, 2008International Human Rights Day
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e-Dialogue Special Section
After two weeks and over 10,000 words in responses, from Nov. 17-21 we spend the final week of the e-Dialogue talking about how Canada can mobilize resources for democratic development abroad. "If implemented... a central democracy institute should move funding away from the risk-averse bureaucratic structures of CIDA, and in addition to taking on new activities like political party support, would hopefully provide longer-term, less-encumbered funding to existing organizations that are already doing good work in the field," proposes David Donovan, this week's Presenter.
We appreciate all of your contributions thus far and encourage you to take this final opportunity to have your say. To get involved, please visit our comprehensive landing pages, presented in both English and French. You can also go
straight through to this week's discussion by clicking here.
This week’s topic is
being moderated by Andrew Thompson, senior fellow at the Centre for
Governance Innovation (CIGI). David Donovan (Associate, Centre for the
Study of Democracy) has already responded while Mark Sedra (Senior
Fellow, CIGI), David Mitchell (VP: Advancement, Queens University) and
Roland Rich (Executive Head, UN Democracy Fund) will contribute to the
discussion throughout the week.
This month, GV is partnering with Ottawa's premier parliamentary publications - The Hill-Times and Embassy Magazine - to promote our e-Dialogue online event.
From the GV Library
The workshop was held to provide organizations that have a substantial continuing role in providing forms of assistance related to democratic development an opportunity to discuss the Committee’s Report. The discussion focused on how the Committee’s recommendations might help advance Canadian assistance to democratic development. [MORE] After SCFAID's 2007 report, this workshop was held to provide organizations that have a substantial continuing role in providing forms of assistance related to democratic development an opportunity to discuss the way forward. [MORE] Public support for democracy in Ghana remains at the national level 15 years after the end of military rule. Ghana continues to move forward toward better governance outcomes in the context of this stable and peaceful political environment, but progress is not even across all sectors and challenges persist. [MORE] GO TO LIBRARY SEARCH PAGE |
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