Experiences: interviews & presentations

There have been many assessment projects so far, as one can see on the different reports under the section "Assessment Reports" comprising not fewer than 20 countries. The origins, funding and form of the assessments differ greatly. In this section you will find more information on the different country assessments and experiences via interviews with assessment team members and speeches. This page will be regularly updated with new material – and we encourage the assessment teams to share their experiences under this section. For more information, please contact sod@idea.int .

Interviews

Latest interviews

Dr Edna Co Estifania, from the Philippines Democracy Assessment Teams, speaks about the Philippines assessments that have been undertaken and the assessment being done during 2008-2009 on the Rule of Law.

Ochir Enkhtsetseg, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, shares lessons learned from assessing the State of Democracy in Mongolia, New York, 13 November 2008.

Methodology and Handbook Update workshop, 7-8 March 2007

The following interviews were conducted by International IDEA's Mark Salter with members of the State of Democracy Network.

• Maarten Prinsen, Ministry of Interior, The Netherlands Listen
• Marian Sawer, Democratic Audit of Australia Listen
• Dino Djipa, Prism Research, Bosnia-Herzegovina Listen

Presentations

Launch of the Handbook, 13th November, 2008 in New York, US

• Opening Remarks by Massimo Tommasoli, Permanent Observer for International IDEA to the United Nations Listen
• Presentation of International IDEA’s Democracy assessment program by Keboitse Machangana, International IDEA, Advisor for Democracy Assessment and Analysis Listen
• International IDEA’s State of Democracy Assessment Framework by Professor Stuart Weir, Democratic Audit, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex Listen | Read the transcript in PDF
  
• Assessing the State of Democracy in Mongolia: Lessons learnt; by Ambassador Ochir of Mongolia, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations Listen

• Assessing the Quality of Democracy- A practical guide:  Part 3
• Assessing the Quality of Democracy – An Overview of the International IDEA Framework: Pages 13 -16