Best practices

The Labour Diploma Course is a one year educational programme for trade union and community activists with a mission to empower workers and their trade unions as well as community based organisations. It aims at enabling them to influence policy making processes in Namibia and South Africa.

The African Media Barometer, founded in 2005, is the first in-depth and comprehen­sive description and measurement system for national media environments on the Afri­can continent.

The problem of the MLPC, regrettably, is that of the too numerous political parties in Africa: how make live durably the hope this party carries while the next elections risk to be, once again, manipulated and faked?

It is in this context and at the request of the MLPC that the Jean-Jaurès Foundation organizes since December, 2008 training courses to the local persons in charge of the party, to warn them of all the predictable pitfalls on the eve of the presidential and legislative elections of March, 2010.

Mampu is a sustainable agroforestry-farming-project, which is focussing on food security and income generation as well as environmental protection of the soil and the air. To reach sustainability, the organised community is strengthened in managing their production, infrastructure maintenance and democratic decision-making. The innovative agroforestry technique approach functions as a model for neighbouring communities and cities.

The workshops let participants take the step from passive to active stakeholders in YA. They have become more knowledgeable actors, especially in the mobilisation process. This has made many feel more included, and as democracy is also about inclusion, the democratic development of YA has been taken to another level.

Among the activities of the GP Foundation, the workshop on the agrarian and rural issues in Africa begun in 2006 is one of the most productive projects we have in terms of intellectual debate, exchanges of ideas, publications and elaboration of alternative politics in agriculture, international cooperation and trade.

Somali professionals and leaders of civic groups, of diverse political backgrounds and resident both in Somalia and in the Diaspora, had played a major and constructive role during the reconciliation conference in 2002-04. Supported by HBF’s Regional Office for East & Horn of Africa in Nairobi, they formed the “National Civic Forum – Somalia” (NCF) in 2005.

In 2005 the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement signed the “Comprehensive Peace Agreement”. As a result elections will take place on all levels in early April 2010, followed by a referendum on the status of South Sudan in 2011. Therefore national and international training activities are underway for election officials.