Join us from 23 September to 24 September 2021 online or in-person for the 2021 Global Forum, Latin America and the Caribbean organized by FUNGLODE and International IDEA.
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International IDEA invites you to a new Debating Democracy webinar entitled: What’s happening to democracy in Latin America? on Wednesday 16 June 2021, at 16:00-17:30 CEST.
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2023 will be complex and challenging for Latin America. The region will face an unfavourable international context in which it is expected, according to the IMF, that there will be a simultaneous slowdown of the three leading economies (United States, China, and the European Union), whose effect will be weak global economic growth of 2.7%, which could even fall below 2% according to its Director Kristalina Georgieva. A third of the global economy is forecast to be in recession this year.
The challenges faced by electoral administrators in holding Haiti’s 2010 elections were extreme. Even before the country was confronted with the effects of the compound disasters addressed in this case study, it was dealing
with long-term societal and institutional problems that severely impeded electoral administration.
Dans le cadre de son programme d’appui au renforcement de la démocratie en Haïti, IDEA International a appuyé les partis dans leurs démarches d’institutionnalisation.
L’objectif étant que ces partis institutionnalisés, organisés, deviennent forces de propositions à travers leurs programmes politiques et constituent de véritables laboratoires de transformation sociale et sociétale.
Œuvrant pour une consolidation des systèmes de partis politiques structurés autour d’idéologies cohérentes qui agrège les besoins et demandes des citoyens-es, l’Institut international pour la démocratie et l’assistance électorale (IDEA International) a réalisé en 2016, dans le cadre de son projet Support à la consolidation démocratique en Haïti, une série d’entretiens diffusés dans l'émission Ann Pale Politik afin de mieux cerner les dynamiques idéologiques qui traversent le paysage
Significant progress has been made in democratizing politics and governance in Haiti during the past two decades. Several challenges however, including extreme poverty, wide economic inequalities, weak democratic institutions and a polarized political landscape remain. Opposition political parties and citizens often express their frustrations through protests, which regularly degenerate into violence.
International IDEA Haiti’s office organized a training day on 4 July 2018 for consultants from various political parties represented in parliament to draft their strategic plan.
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Après 1986, Haïti a choisi la voie démocratique en adoptant une nouvelle Constitution, qui prévoit notamment l’établissement d’un organisme de gestion électorale indépendant : le Conseil électoral permanent (CEP). Toutefois, trente ans plus tard, le pays ne connait qu’une succession de conseils électoraux provisoires.
En vue de renforcer la participation et le leadership des femmes, IDEA International a organisé les premières assises nationales des mairesses d’Haïti.
Grâce à l’implémentation du quota de genre d’au moins 30 % de femmes, tel que prescrit par la Constitution, 143 mairesses ont été élues dans le pays en 2015.
As part of its support for the democratic consolidation process in Haiti and the promotion of women's rights, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) supported a workshop of Haitian women’s organizations to discuss constitutional amendments for gender equality on 1 March 2018.
On 13 and 18 February 2018, two major fires ravaged two important public markets in the country's capital, the Hyppolite and Port marketplaces located in downtown Port-au-Prince. The traders have suffered estimated loss of several thousand US dollars while the authorities, who formed an inter-ministerial commission under the leadership of the Ministry for Women's Affairs and Women's Rights to support the victims, have still not presented the official balance of the damages recorded.
On 19-20 October 2017, International IDEA, in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Affairs and Gender Issues in Haiti, held an important forum that gathered women´s organizations and political parties to discuss the strategies and possible interventions to promote and strengthen the role of women in politics in the country.
One month after having voted the national budget, both houses of parliament have received stark criticisms from Haitians, both within the country and abroad. Haiti is facing a tense situation due to repeated strikes in public transportation sector and weekly demonstrations, often ending in violence scenes and breakages.
Disclaimer: Views expressed in this commentary are those of the staff member. This commentary is independent of specific national or political interests. Views expressed do not necessarily represent the institutional position of International IDEA, its Board of Advisers or its Council of Member States.
International IDEA in Haiti joins hands with local associations to stage theatre performances all over the country with an objective to promote the values of democracy among youth in Haiti.
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“We loved this way of training people! It is very different from what we are used to, very deep and useful”. This is what a participant expressed about the three oratory training sessions organized by International IDEA from 23 to 30 May 2017 at Côte des Arcadins in Haiti. In total, 27 Haitian female leaders, mostly mayors and parliamentarians benefited from this important seminar.
Despite a contested electoral process, the 92 deputies and 14 senators elected in October last year were sworn in on 10 January. While taking office was initially scheduled on 11 January, as prescribed by the Haitian Constitution, President Michel Martelly decided to move the opening of parliament one day earlier than announced to avoid demonstrations that could lead to violence.
Ce manuel sur la budgétisation sensible au genre (BSG), réalisé par IDEA international avec l’appui du ministère des Affaires étrangères de Norvège, entend contribuer à la réduction des inégalités entre les sexes en Haïti.
La BSG est un outil d’analyse budgétaire qui facilite la prise en compte des besoins différenciés des femmes et des hommes dans l’élaboration du budget national.
La présente étude, fruit d’une collaboration entre le bureau d’IDEA International en Haïti et l’Union européenne, se penche de plus près sur la relation qu’entretiennent les partis politiques haïtiens avec leurs membres élus-es au Parlement, à travers le regard d’éminentes personnalités politiques du pays.