European Partnership for Democracy
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| Headquarters | Rue Froissart 123-133, B-1040 Bruxelles |
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President
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Antonella Valmorbida, The European Association for Local Democracy |
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Vice-President
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Wouter Dol, Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy |
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Treasaurer
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Ricardo Hidalgo, Club de Madrid |
| Antonella Valmorbida, The European Association for Local Democracy; Wouter Dol, Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy; Ricardo Hidalgo, Club de Madrid; Theo Kralt, The Association of European Parliamentarians with Africa; Anu Juvonen, Demo Finland; Fabio Bargiacchi, European Centre for Electoral Support; Anthony Smith, Westminster Foundation for Democracy | |
| Website | www |
The European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) is a network of not for profit organisations whose Secretariat is based in Brussels, and working on supporting democracy worldwide. EPD is the most important European network of specialised civil and political society organisations actively involved in democracy support in European Union (EU) partner countries. This multi-specialised European community of practitioners is composed of fourteen European organisations from eleven EU Member States.
The organisations composing EPD have a global presence and together they implemented over the past five years 200 democracy assistance projects around the world in roughly 140 countries for a total of 100 million€ in funding, mostly coming from the EU and/or EU Member States. EPD presidency is held by the European Association for Local Democracy (ALDA). The vice-presidency is held by the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) and the treasury is held by the Club de Madrid (CdM).
EPD was created in 2008 with the aim of reinforcing the impact of European democracy assistance across the world. As a result of the extensive EPD members' experience, the network has the possibility to provide a wide range of support activities in favour of all democracy assistance beneficiaries, such Civil Society organisations, faith-based organisations, medias, Election Management Bodies, private sector, political parties, elected institutions at national and local level, security and justice sector, etc.…
Acting as a platform, EPD has the capacity to build bridges among these stakeholders as to encourage interaction between them for the benefit of consolidating democracy.
EPD is considered as one of the main advocators of democracy assistance at the European Union level. Combining the experience and expertise of its member organisations and as aresult of the lessons learned through the implementation of EU funded projects in partner countries, the network has placed itself as an important source of knowledge in democratic and electoral assistance. In fact, since EPD’s creation in 2008, a number of changes took place in the context of the European development assistance. In the light of these shifts, EPD developed a comprehensive strategy for 2016–2019 to react, influence and develop democracy support activities in the European context (at EU and EU member states levels).
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