Advocacy
Up one levelAdvocacy is the skill to promote ideas, issues or causes. Advocacy can be used to persuade people to change their behaviors, pressure governments to adopt better policies, or convince non-state actors to reconsider their actions. This section of BurmaGuide.Net includes resource summaries that include toolkits and training materials from groups engaged in advocacy for promoting democracy, safeguarding the environment, raising public health standards, protecting human rights, and other areas.
Governance - Past, Present, Future
This paper is about the ‘governance’ reforms needed to meet the human development challenges of the Millennium Declaration.
Lawmaking and Stages of Legislative Procedure
This publication offers a brief view of law making and legislative procedures in democratic governance. Legislative bodies pay three broad ...
Political Parties in the Legislature
This paper argues that political parties are one of the major means of organizing the work of the legislature and developing public policy. The role ...
What is being done on … Internet and Other Media to Promote Democracy?
This site highlights organizations that utilize the internet and other media as effective tools for conducting their democracy-building activities ...
Sources of Funding in International Democratic Development Database
This site contains information on over 100 philanthropic organizations that provide funding, fellowships and awards for those working in the area of ...
World Movement for Democracy Database
This is the World Movement for Democracy website; it contains a database of organizations affiliated with the National Endowment for Democracy. The ...
The National Endowment for Democracy
This is the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED) homepage. The site contains links to information about NED’s grants, fellowships, events, ...
Democratic Party for a New Society
This is the home page for the Democratic Party for a New Society, a Burmese political party- The site gives information about the different advocacy ...
U-S- Campaign for Burma
This is the home page for the US Campaign for Burma’s website- USCB is a U-S--based membership organization dedicated to empowering grassroots ...
Naga International Support Center (NICS)
This webpage introduces readers to the history of the Naga people and the conflict on the border of Northeast India and Burma. It also provides ...
Directory of Persecuted Scientists, Health Professionals, and Engineers: Burma