International IDEA has been working on a two-year project to strengthen Sierra Leone’s democracy, including promoting reforms within political parties and encouraging women, youth and people with special needs to take part in electoral processes.
Jainaba Faye, Head of International IDEA’s Gambia office, received the prestigious Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara Award for Democratic Governance in recognition of her contributions to advancing democracy in The Gambia.
As part of the CODE Project, the Gambian National Assembly adopted its first-ever code of conduct for its members in 2024, with support from International IDEA.
The Duty Solicitor Network of Nigeria, with support from International IDEA’s Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Programme, facilitated a series of legal aid clinics during the Nigerian Bar Association’s Annual General Conference in 2024.
Seventy per cent of the people in Nigeria’s prisons are still awaiting trial, some for seven years or more. In Lagos, magistrates are reluctant to grant bail to defendants out of concern that they may abscond once released.
International IDEA, together with more than 140 partners in the global democracy community, has been convening the Global Democracy Coalition since 2021.
On the margins of the NATO Summit in July 2024, held in Washington DC, International IDEA convened an event titled ‘Strengthening Security through Democratic Resilience’.
International IDEA was a leading advocate for embedding democracy at the core of the UN’s Pact for the Future, emphasizing the need to address democratic backsliding as a global challenge.
International IDEA has been a long-standing partner of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers (ANCL), which brings together communities of public intellectuals, judges, government officials, practitioners and members of civil society to enable peer exchanges and the sharing of knowledge on practical issues of democratic constitutional governance.
Twenty young adults from across Zambia gathered at the National Assembly in November 2024 for the Youth Parliamentary Academy, as part of the Inter Pares partnership with the National Assembly.
