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Non-Governmental
Process, held March 3-4, 2005
The next ministerial meeting of the Community
of Democracies was held in Santiago, Chile on April 28-29,
2005. In an effort to ensure effective civil society participation,
the Executive Secretariat (currently hosted by Corporación
PARTICIPA, a Chilean NGO) developed a strategy in advance
of the ministerial meeting. This strategy
that worked on global, regional, and national levels and brought
together civil society representatives as part of the Non-Governmental
deliberative process to discuss the major democratic deficits
in each region of the world and develop proposals for how
governments should address those deficits.
The main objectives of the Non-Governmental
process were:
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To organize
and develop a participatory process for the social and
political actors of Santiago 2005, to promote the creation
of a non-governmental counterpart of the Community of
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To provide governments,
international, and regional organizations, civil society,
and the donor community with a high-level analysis of
both democratic deficits and also proposals for how
to address them. |
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To advocate
for and raise global awareness of the importance of
developing effective and comprehensive democracy promotion
instruments, especially taking into consideration the
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The official website of the 2005 Non-Governmental
Process of the Community of Democracies is: www.santiago2005.org.
Click here
for more information regarding the activities related to the
NGO Process.
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Third Ministerial Meeting, April 28–29,
2005
The 3rd Ministerial Conference of the Community
of Democracies took place in Santiago, Chile April 28–29,
2005. During the meeting, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs
and their delegates from more than one hundred countries participated
in working groups and regional workshops on issues regarding
civil society, inter-regional cooperation for democratic governance,
poverty and development, the UN Democracy Caucus and responding
to threats to democracy. This multilateral initiative had
as its main objective the extension and strengthening of activities
for the promotion of democracy at the regional and global
level.
The Community of Democracies has a managing
and coordinating board named the Convening Group (CG) currently
composed of ten countries (Chile, the Czech Republic, India,
Mali, Portugal, Poland, Korea, United States, Mexico, and
South Africa). Its mission is, among other things, to define
the agenda of the Ministerial Conferences; to decide on the
criteria for inviting a participant to the CD; to adopt initiatives
for the promotion and consolidation of democracy; and to resolve
procedural and administrative matters. The representative
of the organizing country of the respective Ministerial Conference
presides as the chairperson of the CG. The official website
of the 2005 Community of Democracies Ministerial is: www.cdemo.cl.
Click here
for more information regarding the activities related to the
CD Ministerial.
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