Reinvent Democracy - User contributions [en]

Rațiu Center for Democracy

2017-01-25T12:06:39Z

Charikleia:

'''Rațiu Center for Democracy ''' is a nongovernmental, NGO that promotes democracy as a way of life and supports values and behaviours associated with public participation, youth engagement and practical implementation of a multicultural vision. <br>
CRD giving a voice to activists and turning critical thinking into project breaking ground. Main activities are research, learn and inform, apply and main areas are participation and community involvement, multiculturalism, gender studies, human trafficking, youth projects.<br>
Base of Ratiu Center for Democracy is Romania, lader home country, with expant and work across the Europe.

Rațiu Center for Democracy

2017-01-25T12:00:45Z

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European Policy Centre

2017-01-25T11:45:01Z

Charikleia:

'''European Policy Centre''' (EPC) is an NGO organization that have a platform that give the opportunities to paterns to debate the future of Europe and relevant important issues for Europe and also gives the opportunity to actively help Europena stage.<br>
The principles and values underpinning the EPC's activities are:<br>
1. Independence and transparency<br>
2. Excellence, relevance and innovation<br>
3. Cross-cutting and long-term solutions<br>
4. Multi-constituency and inclusive<br>
5.Partnerships<br>
European Policy Centre is at the cutting edge of EU affairs, analysing and promoting discussion and reflection on the issues dominating the Union's agenda.

European Policy Centre

2017-01-25T11:42:52Z

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'''European Policy Centre''' (EPC) is an NGO organization that have a platform that give the opportunities to paterns to debate the future of Europe and relevant important issues for Europe.<br>
The principles and values underpinning the EPC's activities are:<br>
1. Independence and transparency<br>
2. Excellence, relevance and innovation<br>
3. Cross-cutting and long-term solutions<br>
4. Multi-constituency and inclusive<br>
5.Partnerships<br>

DEMOS

2017-01-25T11:32:56Z

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'''DEMOS'''is Britain’s leading cross-party think-tank that work in England and Wales.<br>
Demos has always been interested in power: how it works, and how to distribute it more equally throughout society, believe in trusting people with decisions about their own lives and solving problems from the bottom-up.<br>
Demos’ research covers across a wide range of policy areas, some of them are: Welfare and Public Services, Citizenship and Education, Growth and Good Business and Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.

European Foundation for DEMOCRACY

2017-01-25T11:27:46Z

Charikleia:

'''European Foundation for Democracy''' 's goal is to ensure that the universal values of the Enlightenment – political pluralism, respect for individual rights, government by democracy – remain the founding precepts of European security and prosperity.

Some of the core work that European FFoundation of Democracy have to do is empowering credible pro-democratic voices, creating practical tools to support front-line professionals, fostering leadership skills among young refugees and also an important and promise work is to educate and inform policy-makers, officials and politicians about their work.
European Foundation for Democracy follow a big series of publications that inform citizens about their work.

2017-01-25T09:20:36Z

Charikleia:

'''Democracy in Europe''' is an organization that its goal is to combine the reverting to the nation state and maintaining the crisis status quo.
Democracy in Europe will be created from the bottom-up, by throwing open the doors to the population of the continent to reason, dialogue and act together on their common good.

Their aim is to encourage NGOs, local movments and activists in a common rally so their voice be stronger in Europe.

Part of that team are: European Alternatives, DiEM25, Talk Real and Piroetta that are also connected in a way. Main connection of them are their common vision for Democracy in Europe.

2016-12-02T12:42:07Z

Charikleia:

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'''Eleanor Opiyo''' is a [[Core Participants |core participant]] of the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - African Co-Laboratory]].

Her [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Joshua Forstenzer]]'''.

Eleanor Opiyo is a management consultant, accountant, visionary social entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is a student of Strategic management at Strathmore University with a passion towards strategic entrepreneurship and gender balance. She has been involved in various organizations and ventures working with relief assistance, entrepreneurship, capacity building, business training, education and mentorship particularly among a number of communities with emphasis on Samburu, Turkana and Luo Nyanza community.

Eleanor enjoys analytical thinking and creative problem solving. She envisions a world where there is equality and all rights are respected. She would want to see more young women empowered to know about their rights, exercise freedom of expression and grow into positions of leadership. This is bound to elevate the living standard of their families and communities at large. She is a proponent of social media as an advocacy and lobbying tool for the kind of world we would like to see and the change we hope for.

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'''Shadow Participants'''
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# [[Kiarie Kimani]]
# [[Emily Ongus ]]
# [[Catherine Nyambura]]
# [[Jerono Odhiambo]]
# [[Berlyne Ogonji]]
# [[Percilla Arike]]
# [[Des Njalale ]]
# [[Caroline Wambua]]
# [[Jackline Mberia]]
# [[George Ombeo]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]

Eleanor Opiyo

2016-12-02T12:41:20Z

Charikleia:

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'''Eleanor Opiyo''' is a [[Core Participants |core participant]] of the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - African Co-Laboratory]].

Her [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Joshua Forstenzer]]'''.

Eleanor Opiyo is a management consultant, accountant, visionary social entrepreneur and businesswoman. She is a student of Strategic management at Strathmore University with a passion towards strategic entrepreneurship and gender balance. She has been involved in various organizations and ventures working with relief assistance, entrepreneurship, capacity building, business training, education and mentorship particularly among a number of communities with emphasis on Samburu, Turkana and Luo Nyanza community.

Eleanor enjoys analytical thinking and creative problem solving. She envisions a world where there is equality and all rights are respected. She would want to see more young women empowered to know about their rights, exercise freedom of expression and grow into positions of leadership. This is bound to elevate the living standard of their families and communities at large. She is a proponent of social media as an advocacy and lobbying tool for the kind of world we would like to see and the change we hope for.

{{#ev:youtube|LMZas5-FBy4|250|center|Eleanor Opiyo}}

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'''Shadow Participants'''
[[File:RD_ShadowParticipantAF.png|100px|caption]]

# [[Kiarie Kimani]]
# [[Emily Ongus ]]
# [[Catherine Nyambura]]
# [[Jerono Odhiambo]]
# [[Berlyne Ogonji]]
# [[Percilla Arike]]
# [[Des Njalale ]]
# [[Caroline Wambua]]
# [[Jackline Mberia]]
# [[George Ombeo]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]

James Gondwe

2016-12-02T12:38:35Z

Charikleia:

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|role=[[Core Participants#Core Participants from Africa|SDDP AF Core Participant]]
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|colab=Nairobi, 9-13 May, 2016
|education=
|links=[http://www.facebook.com/jamesgondwe Jame's Profile on Facebook][http://www.facebook.com/cydmalawi Centre for Youth and Development's page][https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ_PDrjAhxb8196G79nNAGw Centre for Youth and Development's Youtube Channel]
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''''''Biography''''''

''''''James Gondwe''' is a member of different networks where he shares innovative ideas, knowledge, information, discussions with different experts and professionals in a specific context and learn from. He believes that innovation is the pillar of sustainable development forward progress. He is a creative and business-savvy Development and Project Management professional with over 5 years of progressive experience across a broad range of development functions. He has proven ability to combine vision, creativity and strong project management acumen with well-developed leadership qualities to support growth of Non profit Organizations.

He specializes in programme and research design, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation with bias to child and Youth Development. Experienced in institutional and organizational development, strategic plans development, capacity building including mentoring, coaching and training using internationally agreed packages and principals.

He is the founder of Centre for Youth and Development and currently leads it as its Executive Director. CYD that focuses on sustainable social developments, that endeavor to create resilient, indigenous and a competitive environment that inculcates entrepreneurial values among Children and Young people for positive development in Malawi.

James's areas of Expertise include; Strategic Planning, Project Management, Project design and development, Communications, Start up and growth, Monitoring and Evaluation, Team Building and Leadership, Events Management, Public Speaking and Presentations, Child and Youth Development, Rights Based Approach, Sustainable Livelihood initiatives'''

'''James''' is a [[Core Participants |core participant]] of the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era - African Co-Laboratory]].

Him [[Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors]] is '''[[Lina Maria Jaramillo Rojas]]'''.

''''''James's Involvement with Reinventing Democracy''''''

James joins the Reinventing Democracy as a core participant. He participated in the Nairobi Co-laboratory where he presented two challenges with corresponding solutions affecting democracy.

'''Challenge1: Lack of citizen's monitoring and reporting tool for projects and service delivery by Government'''

Developing Countries continues to feel the effects of successive regimes in which presidents and elected representatives have centralised power and distributed patronage in ways that influence the allocation of public resources towards service delivery and projects. Patchy decentralisation means key functions are still overseen centrally and resources are allocated according to patronage patterns rather than need or implementation capacity. As a result, service delivery and implementation of projects remains highly constrained. Service delivery and implementation of projects by the Government is implemented at the mercy of leaders with no proper mechanism for citizen to demand, monitor, report and voice out. This has led to poor service delivery, persistent corruption and a drain of public resources.

'''Proposed solution to challenge 1: Development of an application for monitoring and reporting service delivery and implementation of projects by Government'''

The proposed product is designed as a mechanism to strengthen citizens’ demand and voice in relation to service providers, other state duty-bearers in the provision of services and implementation of projects by Government. The overall vision of change is the ability to track implementation of projects and service delivery hence ensuring quality project implementation and improved service delivery.

The proposed application would be both web and mobile based but also intergrated with an SMS system and social media for citizens to provide feedback on the quality of services and implementation of projects in a particular sector, as part of a wider process of engagement with relevant stakeholders. All data and information entered on the application will be open source and can be accessed at anytime by anyone.

The application provides an opportunity for citizen to enter information in real time but it can be more successfull when intergrated with offline efforts like community awareness meetings, community feedback meetings and interface meetings between citizens, service providers and relevant duty bearers.

In the long term, the application is expected to contribute towards;
> Strengthening citizen's voice
> Improving information flows between service providers, duty bearers and citizens
> Greater top-down perfomance pressure
> Improved service delivery
> Quality project implementation
> Collective action by citizens to provide service delivery inputs
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'''Challenge 2: Lack of Citizen Inclusion in Governance Structures'''

More and more young people are realizing that they have the power to change their community through dialogue and local engagement. However lack of or no willingnes of leaders to engage young people affects young people's engagement. It is observed that no or very few young people are members of various governance structures like Neighbourhood committees, Ward Development committees and District Development Committees. Hence youth's ideas are left out in important decision making.

'''Proposed solution to challenge 2: Structured Dialogue for Youth Participation in Governance Project'''

The Project aims at mobilizing young people and building their capacity to participate in society and local governance as positive leaders for the future. The project will mobilise young people in their respective communities to form youth councils. The councils will be led by a committee and will be a platform for young people to work together as a group and engage with officials and community leaders. The project will train young people to understand local governance structured dialogue and how to advocate for their priorities. Young people will use structured dialogue to identify local governance issues that are priorties for youth in their respective communities

The project will also use competitions, online social media, radio, television and awareness meetings s to get them inspired and more involved in effecting positive change in their communities.

In the long term, it is anticipated that the project will ensure that;
>young people have greater understanding of governance
>Young people actively participate in governance and their decisions are taken on board.
>there is greater engagement between youth and local officials.
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'''Videos'''
{{#ev:youtube|0lIg470GHoo|300|center|James Gondwe's presenting a possible challenge to lack of a monitoring and reporting tool}}
{{#ev:youtube|AOsbTxjjI08|300|center|James Gondwe interviewd by MBC TV to learn more about Centre for Youth and Development}}

'''Shadow Participants'''
[[File:RD_ShadowParticipantAF.png|100px|caption]]

# [[Charles Kajoloweka]]
# [[Madalitso Chidumu]]
# [[Darius Luhanga]]
# [[Gibson Chisale]]
# [[Reuben Moyo]]
# [[Braxton Banda]]
# [[Ben Kalua]]
# [[Pearson Malisau]]
# [[Macdonald Nyoni]]
# [[Robert Banda]]

[[Category:SDDP AF Core Participant]]