In an effort to both support the governments of the Community of Democracies and also to strengthen the CD process by making it more transparent and democratic, the Executive Secretariat organized a working group of non-state actors to think critically about the governmental process and develop proposals for increasing its effectiveness.

The group includes representatives from: the Democracy Coalition Project, (USA); the Council for a Community of Democracies, (USA); the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, (UK); the Institute of Multi-Party Democracy, (the Netherlands); and the Executive Secretariat (Chile).

The group focuses on the following issues:

a) Strengthening the democratic caucus in the United Nations
b) Criteria for the governmental invitation process
c) Democratization of the Convening group (e.g. mechanisms of rotation, participation, transparency of decision-making, etc)
d) Formalize participation of civil society actors in CD process, especially regarding the format of the Ministerial meeting.

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If you would like to know more about the Global Issues Group or their proposals to the convening group,

COUNTRY ASSESSMENTS FOR INVITATIONS
TO COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES MINISTERIAL MEETING IN SANTIAGO

November 29th, 2004

After being circulated among participants in the Non-Governmental Process for the Community of Democracies, the Country Assessments report has been finalized. The purpose of the report is to help the Convening Group make decisions on which governments should be invited to the third Ministerial Meeting of the Community of Democracies and in what category (full participant, observer or non-invitee). Find out more.