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What’s New
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Workshop on Assessing
Local Democracy in Jordan
The International Institute for Democracy and
Electoral Assistance (IDEA), together with Al
Urdun Al Jadid Research Center (UJRC), are
conducting a 3-day consecutive training workshop
entitled: “State of Local Democracy in the Arab
World: Local Democracy Assessment in Jordan”.
This will be held on July 14 to 16, 2008, at
Holiday Inn Hotel, Amman, Jordan
This workshop is part of International IDEA’s
project “State of Local Democracy (SoLD)
Assessment in the Arab World”, involving similar
activities in four countries: Egypt, Jordan,
Morocco and Yemen. This research project will be
implemented over a period of 18 months, as part
of IDEA’s programme in the Arab World.
The project is implemented with collaboration of
local partner organizations, where UJRC is the
implementing organization in Jordan. UJRC is
also the ACE regional electoral resources centre
for the Arab region.
The main focus of the workshop is assessing the
level of local democracy in four municipalities
in Jordan: Rusaifah, Maan, Mafraq and Jarash.
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Two-day National
Conference on CSR
UJRC convened the First National
Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility on March 30-31, 2008. The
conference summoned private sector businesses with a wide
audience of stakeholders; business associations,
labour unions, supervisory commissions, civil
society organisations and other. The conference
culminated by launching the Jordanian Forum
for Social Responsibility (JFSR), with many
participants registering
as founding members of the JFSR.
View
Agenda
Read conference proceedings
and
briefing
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Wide-scale Study Days
project reaping its successes
In
March 2008 UJRC held the seventh study day for civil
society leaders and activists on “Good Governance in
Civil Society Organisations”. Speakers investigated the philosophy of
good governance within the role that CSOs could
play in countering corruption in Jordan.
Read more about Study Days
project.
Read about
upcoming 9th
study day.
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ISLAH Network … substantial
accomplishments in its first year
The UJRC-led ISLAH Network
celebrates its first anniversary by presenting its
major achievements and doubling-up its membership.
View the
concluding statement of the first annual
meeting of ISLAH Network
Read about
Partners in Reform conference …
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