12 January 2022
“View of the huge crowd from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument, during the March on Washington” by Unseen Histories is licensed under the Unsplash License
Welcome to the January issue of the Summit4Democracy.org newsletter! Below are some of the updates:
- NSC Senior Director for Democracy Rob Berschinski gives a press briefing to preview the upcoming Summit for Democracy on March 29-30, 2023. Find it here.
- The Cohort on Deliberative Democracy and Citizens’ Assemblies will hold an official (online) launch event on the 17th January 2023 at 4:00PM CET. Sign up here.
- Coming soon: In advance of the second summit, the Financial Transparency and Integrity (FTI) Cohort will hold meetings on enablers and open contracting and procurement, as well as develop a set of key considerations for beneficial ownership reform and an FTI cohort call to action. For more information, contact: democracysummit@state.gov, rlewis@brookings.edu or aidan.harris@opengovpartnership.org.
- Accountability Lab Nepal is hosting a civil society advocacy meeting around priorities and accountability for the Government of Nepal as part of S4D2 in Kathmandu on January 20th- contact narayan@accountabilitylab.org if you’d like to be involved
- As part of the Year of Action, International IDEA has piloted Summit for Democracy research and engagement with citizens and civil society in four countries representing four continents: Kenya, Moldova, Nepal and Paraguay. Learn more here.
