National Endowment for Democracy
The Secretariat of the World Movement for Democracy
In February 1999, the Washington, DC-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED), in cooperation with two Indian nongovernmental organizations, initiated the World Movement for Democracy with a global Assembly in New Delhi, India, that brought together more than 400 democracy activists, practitioners, and scholars. The idea of the World Movement is to take advantage of the opportunities presented by advances in information technology and enhanced economic interdependence to build a global "network of networks" focused on the promotion of democracy.
Because the World Movement is not intended to be a new centralized organization with its own bureaucracy, the World Movement Steering Committee designated NED as the Secretariat to work with democracy advocates and practitioners in all global regions and in many areas of democracy work to build regional and functional networks and to organize the biennial global assemblies.
The National Endowment for Democracy, a private, nonprofit, grant-making institution, was created in 1983 to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. It is governed by an independent, nonpartisan board of directors and receives an annual congressional appropriation from which it makes hundreds of grants each year to support pro-democracy groups in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. Programs in the areas of labor, business, and political party development are funded through four "core institutes": the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS), the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the International Republican Institute (IRI), and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI).
The research arm of NED, the International Forum for Democratic Studies, is composed of a Democracy Resource Center (including a library on democracy), a Research and Conferences Program, publication of the Journal of Democracy, and a Visiting Fellows Program. The Democracy Resource Center (DRC) provides materials and services for sustaining the World Movement for Democracy, such as maintaining the World Movement's Internet Web site and helping to facilitate the Web sites of related networks.
National Endowment for Democracy - www.ned.org
World Movement for Democracy - www.wmd.org
World Movement Secretariat Staff
Art Kaufman, Director
Ryota Jonen, Project Manager
Liaison to World Movement participants in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East
Cecilia Hernandez, Assistant Project Manager
Liaison to World Movement participants in Latin America
Cate Urban, Assistant Project Manager
Liaison to World Movement participants in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe,and Russia
All communications to the World Movement Secretariat at NED should be directed to:
National Endowment for Democracy
1025 F Street, NW, Suite 800,
Washington, DC 20004 USA
Tel: (202) 378-9700
Fax: (202) 378-9889
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