8 December 2006, Boipuso Hall, Gaborone, Botswana

About the workshop

EISA will host a workshop on Strengthening Political Parties for Sustainable Democracy to be attended by various stakeholders predominantly political parties in Botswana on 8th December 2006. The workshop is meant to share findings of the research on the Inter-Party Relations and Democracy in Botswana which was undertaken in February 2006 by Prof. Onalenna Selolwane (University of Botswana) and Victor Shale (EISA) culminating in a comprehensive research report. The workshop will also provide a platform for parties to discuss, identify and prioritise their capacity building needs. This workshop is an integral part of the larger project entitled Strengthening Political Parties for Sustainable Democracy in the SADC Region which is supported by the Emabassy of Finland in Pretoria.

The specific objectives of the project are as follows:

• To conduct capacity building programmes in a variety of areas namely, gender representation, intra-party and inter-party democracy, outreach activities, conflict management and leadership in parties;
• To share information on comparative experiences of political parties in the SADC region with regard their functioning, their internal democracy mechanisms and organisational arrangements; and
• To promote dialogue amongst parties in order to generate regional and in-country debates on their status.

Workshop Rapporteurs

Victor Shale and Sydney Letsholo, EISA

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