NIMD Annual Report 2013 Contents Foreword by the Supervisory Board ................................................................................................................................ 3 Letter from the Executive Director .................................................................................................................................. 4 1. Focus on Long-term Sustainability ............................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 NIMD’s mission .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.3 Global Partnership for Multiparty Democracy .............................................................................................................. 5 1.4 Other strategic partnerships.......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.5 Links with the Dutch political parties............................................................................................................................. 6 1.6 The NIMD theory of change .......................................................................................................................................... 6 1.7 Strengthening our evidence base .................................................................................................................................. 7 1.8 Fundraising .................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2. Overview and Programme Highlights ......................................................................................................................... 10 2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 10 2.2 Local partners .............................................................................................................................................................. 11 2.3 Linking and Learning Programme ................................................................................................................................ 11 2.4 Highlights from NIMD’s Country Programmes ............................................................................................................ 12 3. Organization and Staff ............................................................................................................................................... 16 3.1 Staff ............................................................................................................................................................................. 16 3.2 New department for internal organization and finance .............................................................................................. 17 3.3 Funding ........................................................................................................................................................................ 17 4. Country Programmes ................................................................................................................................................. 19 4.1 Benin ............................................................................................................................................................................ 19 4.2 Bolivia .......................................................................................................................................................................... 20 4.3 Burundi ........................................................................................................................................................................ 21 4.4 Colombia...................................................................................................................................................................... 22 4.5 Ecuador ........................................................................................................................................................................ 23 4.6 Egypt ............................................................................................................................................................................ 24 4.7 El Salvador ................................................................................................................................................................... 25 4.8 Georgia and South Caucasus ....................................................................................................................................... 26 4.9 Ghana .......................................................................................................................................................................... 28 4.10 Guatemala ................................................................................................................................................................. 29 4.11 Honduras ................................................................................................................................................................... 30 4.12 Indonesia ................................................................................................................................................................... 31 4.13 Jordan ........................................................................................................................................................................ 32 4.14 Kenya ......................................................................................................................................................................... 33 4.15 Libya .......................................................................................................................................................................... 34 4.16 Malawi ....................................................................................................................................................................... 35 4.17 Mali ............................................................................................................................................................................ 36 4.18 Mozambique .............................................................................................................................................................. 37 4.19 Myanmar ................................................................................................................................................................... 38 4.20 South Sudan ............................................................................................................................................................... 39 4.21 Tunisia ....................................................................................................................................................................... 40 4.22 Uganda ...................................................................................................................................................................... 41 4.23 Zimbabwe .................................................................................................................................................................. 42 5. Regional Programmes ................................................................................................................................................ 43 5.1 Africa Regional Programme ......................................................................................................................................... 43 5.2 Asia and MENA Regional Programme .......................................................................................................................... 44 5.3 Latin America Regional Programme ............................................................................................................................ 45 5.4 INSPIRED ...................................................................................................................................................................... 46 6. Output Tables ............................................................................................................................................................ 47 List of abbreviations ...................................................................................................................................................... 78 2 Foreword by the Supervisory Board Since the late 1990s, the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) and its predecessor, the Foundation for a New South Africa (NZA), have contributed to democratization in over 25 countries. While this has not been an easy task, over the past 10 years NIMD has built a solid track record and a strong reputation in the field of democracy assistance. Rather than overextend itself to include a very broad range of activities (e.g. press freedom, independent judiciaries or public sector reform) NIMD has maintained