Indonesia: CEERD is providing multi-pronged support to the Indonesia country program. Based on global symposia on community radio development and legal services for the poor in FY03, CEERD is now working with the KDP, UPP, SCRAP, and decentralization teams on diagnostic studies, and will support networking, study tours and internships to improve community radio stations' programming, and help legal services organizations to be effective in representing poor groups and organizations, to beat back administrative barriers and solve other problems, and to advocate for specific legal/regulatory reforms on behalf of poor constituencies.
Linked to this assistance, CEERD is sponsoring background analyses and a symposium on civic engagement in local governance, with a broad range of Indonesian stakeholders, to introduce them to a broad conceptual framework and global practices, and support development of a community of practice for south-south learning and shared advice, to inform and support prototyping and expansion of reforms in Indonesia.
Afghanistan: Community Forum of Afghanistan has been working with local communities, applying some VBPP features since 1994, increasingly focusing on governance and constitutive processes. Now the Forum is playing an important role in the critical public participation phase of the new draft Afghan Constitution. |
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