NIMD is supporting an interparty dialogue to strengthen Burundi’s fragile democracy.
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Overview
In Burundi, NIMD is setting up a programme for interparty dialogue to support the consolidation of a still fragile democracy in a country still emerging from the experience of bitter civil war.
• Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie – Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD)
• Union pour le Progrès National (UPRONA)
• Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi (FRODEBU)
• Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-Nyangoma)
• Mouvement de Rehabilitation des Citoyens (MRC)
• Dismissal of Hussein Radjabu as leader of the ruling party CNDD-FDD. In response various CNDD-FDD parliamentarians left the party, followed by a front of opposition parties blocking all parliamentary cooperation (September).
• Resumption of power-sharing agreement at the executive level (October).
• Talks between government and rebel party FNL were resumed in January 2008.
• Ensuring CNDD-FDD's full cooperation with the NIMD programme for multiparty dialogue.
• Designing a multi-annual programme together with the political parties and securing funding.
To be established in 2008.
• Royal Netherlands Embassy
• Embassy of Belgium
• European Delegation in Bujumbura
• Woodrow Wilson Centre, United States of America