This report is based on the outcome of a project carried out by International IDEA, in cooperation with the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), aimed at discussing democratic reform in Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. The project was made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Government of Germany.
The drafting of the report benefited from the views of the following experts who contributed written inputs and presentations during the project: Hala Mustafa, Abd al-Ghaffar Shukr and Amro Hachem in Egypt; Ibtisam al-Atiyyat, Moussa Steiwi and Suleiman Sweiss in Jordan; and Houriyya Mashour, Abdel-Aziz al-Kumaym and Mohammad al-Mikhlafi in Yemen. We are also indebted to all other persons that have attended IDEA meetings and conferences during the course of the project, giving us their side of the story and providing useful inputs to discussions, challenging conventional wisdom and articulating new and constructive ideas on how to move forward in democratic reform.
