PROGRAMS

This section presents NDI's regional programs that aim to strengthen political parties throughout Latin America and the Caribbean: the Political Leadership Prgram (LP) and the Party Renewal Program (PREPA).

"The Leadership Program is like finding one of those books that has everything you ever wanted to learn but nobody had the decency to tell you of its existence." --2006 participant

This year, 28 young leaders from parties in Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru were selected to attend the seminar and are now implementing renewal within their parties with technical assistance from NDI.

With the participation of political experts and high-level trainers from Latin America, Europe and the United States, NDI helps young politicians develop leadership skills such as communication, political negotiation and strategic planning. Our political experts also provide strategies on the internal democratization of political parties and their contact with voters.

The Political Leadership Program has helped, through the projects of its participants, to promote political reforms within 36 political parties and movements in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.

The Party Renewal Program (PREPA) of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) targeted the people responsible of training within political parties in Latin America, with the objective of promoting an excange on party modernization and reform, the design of new training curriculums for internal democracy, transparency and outreach as well as implement new work methodologies.

During seven months, participants worked to renew a specific area or their political parties. PREPA began with a workshop in which participants share ideas and new training techniques related with internal democracy, transparency and outreach within the party.