#EPDNetwork 🌐

📌 Supporting democracy is not about exporting a model. It needs a deep understanding of the local realities.

📚 A new tool published by @wfd.org and partners helps democracy support actors to make sense of political contexts and implement locally-led change.

Deep dive now ⬇️

📢 EPD joins forces with World Justice Project !

At the 2025 OGP Global Summit, EPD signed a Memorandum of Understanding with WJP to strengthen the rule of law and democratic governance.

@kenlcg.bsky.social

🟡 We opened day 2 of #IDDBrussels with a powerful photo exhibition highlighting international photography that celebrates youth activism in all its forms.

Through their lenses, we see how young people around the world are shaping a brighter future.

#GYPI #YouthParticipation

🗣️ “Young people must be involved in the development of public policies on digital rights for inclusive democracy in the Sahel”

- Baro Condé representing the Association of Bloggers of Guinea

👋 Meet four more young leaders heading to the OGP Global Summit 2025 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. #YDCatOGP

🇰🇪 Fradina Makena
🇧🇯 Emmanuel Gans
🇳🇮 Edgar Blanco
🇨🇴 Ana Aguilera

🔗 Follow their journey as they raise youth voices at the OGP Global Summit: youthdemocracycohort.com/ydcxogp/

#YDCatOGP

💬 Ratification of international conventions is not enough: we have to implement tools that help combat the practice of violence against women.

Hon. Mihaela Neto Webba

📌 IDD Brussels has officially started! Stay tuned for EPD's highlights! 📸

@internationalidea.bsky.social @eedemocracy.bsky.social @carnegieeurope.bsky.social

#IDDBrussels
#InternationalDemocracyDay
#EESCPartnership #EESC

🧩 #Programmes

New horizons for EPD! 🇧🇩
This Tuesday, alongside the EU Delegation in Bangladesh, EPD met with the Bangladesh Election Commission (BEC) and introduced the newly launched AHEAD Bangladesh project.

What is AHEAD Bangladesh about? 🧵

JUST OUT 📚

Civic movements are increasingly driving democratic processes around the world - but donors often struggle to engage given the lack of accountability mechanisms.

Our new report offers insights into how donors can better support this new phase of civic movements.

👉 ow.ly/FLl250VMPu4

📢 Save the Date: #IDD2025

🗓️ 18–19 Sept | Brussels

🌍 Democracy and Inclusion in an Age of Insecurity
Join democracy leaders from around the world for panel debates & global insights.

Explore the agenda & register: savethedate.idd-brussels.eu

#DemocracyAgenda #EUvalues

As we discuss the future of #Afghanistan & our #Afghan friends, it has brought up many myths.

Read my novel Kabul Traffic for a glimpse of what life was REALLY like on the UK mission & for all internationals there - the hard choices, sense of purpose & passion, the relationships. amzn.eu/d/iBtLxjq

Just to be clear, this post earlier is now a crime
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I'm curious why Democrats failed to convincingly communicate economic progress (jobs, growth, reducing inflation, infrastructure) or intent to control/manage migration? Was it because the info ecosystem was already captured or did they focus on the wrong things with certain audiences?

Restoring my faith in the world's beauty at a retreat in the South of France, after a bunch of disappointments in my fellow humans...

I was struck by a frightening line in this article attributed to a Hungarian academic: “Trump promises that you don’t have to think about other people.” It made me wonder whether in polarised societies, we still share even the most basic values that bind us together? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

If u set out to destroy, damage & disrupt without a planned reform process, u create chaos & things STOP WORKING. Brexit destroyed or undermined 1000s of British businesses who couldn't replace all the trade they lost with EU. We now must painstakingly rebuild new ways to cooperate in every area.