Best practices

In Colombia the Hanns Seidel Foundation makes a contribution towards the development of a more democratic, constitutional state based on principles of good governance, the rule of law and a culture of peace.
Project activities are aiming at achieving a new quality in policy formulation and implementation by forming qualified, political leaders, modernizing institutions and strengthening the participation of the civil society in public affairs.

With this project in Georgia the FES aims at strengthening the dialog between local civil society, the municipality and private companies in the sector of water, energy and waste disposal. It is thus a contribution to an increasing participation of civil society in local governance.

The FES supports in Turkey the national campaign to increase the participation of women in politics. Together with its long time partner KA-DER (Association for Support and Training of Women Candidates) it aims to empower and encourage women and develop strategies for effective and equal participation of women in parliaments and other decision making bodies.

The course for promising politicians is an initiative of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Alfred Mozer Stichting and supported by several other political foundations. The aim is to invest in a new generation of leaders in the western balkan region. The project will enter its eigth year in 2009.

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 project aims at strengthening the rule of law and democratic process through the crea­tion of guidelines and standards governing civil society (NGOs, political parties, labour unions) based on national dialogue with governments.

National pilot project on the design and model of effective and democratically con­trolled self-administration in the 2 biggest provincial capitals of Cambodia.