| TIME |
EVENT |
| 08h00 - 09h00 |
Arrival & registration |
SESSION 1 |
| Chair: Ms Dren Nupen, EISA Board |
| 09h00 - 09h30 |
Welcome & official opening
Mr Leshele Thoahlane, Chairperson, Lesotho IEC & Chairperson, EISA Board
CWCI Representative |
Introduction to the Symposium
Dr Khabele Matlosa, Senior Advisor Research, EISA |
| Chair: Mr Denis Kadima, Executive Director, EISA |
| 09h30 - 10h00 |
Keynote address: Democracy & Development in Africa
Professor Adebayo Adedeji, Eminent Member of the APR Panel, Leader of the APRM Mission to SA & Founder & Executive Director, African Centre for Development & Strategic Studies (ACDESS) |
| 10h00 - 10h20 |
Tea break |
SESSION 2 |
| Chair: Dr Brigalia Bam, Chairperson, South African IEC |
| 10h20 - 11h00 |
Democracy & Human Development: International Perspectives
- Governance Challenges for the Achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) so far
Dr Joseph Mugore, Regional Manager UNDP Regional Service Centre - Democracy and Development in Africa: The Commonwealth Approach
Professor Ade Adefuye, Commonwealth Secretariat, London |
| 11h00 - 11h30 |
Discussion |
| Chair: Dr. Abdul Lamin, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| 11h30 - 12h30 |
Democracy & Human Development: Regional Perspectives
- Democracy & Development in Southern Africa
Dr Khabele Matlosa, EISA - Prospects for the Consolidation of Democracy on the African Continent: Evidence from the Afrobarometer Survey
Dr Annie Barbara Chikwanha, Afrobarometer, IDASA, South Africa - Gender & Democratic Governance in Southern Africa
Professor Sheila Meintjies, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa - Challenges for Democratic Governance & Development in East Africa
Professor Rok Ajulu, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa - Globalisation, Democracy & Development in Africa: An Analysis
Ms Martha Mutisi, Africa University, Zimbabwe |
| 12h30 - 13h00 |
Discussion |
| 13h00 - 14h00 |
Lunch break |
SESSION 3 |
| Chair: Dr Abdalla Hamdok, Director, Africa Program, IDEA |
14h00 - 15h00 |
Elections & Democracy
- Democracy & Elections in Africa
Professor Jørgen Elklit, University of Aarhus, Denmark - Multiparty Democracy & Electoral Violence in Africa
Dr Dorina A Bekoe, US Institute of Peace, Washington - Elections as a Peace Building Instrument
Professor Dirk Kotze, UNISA, Pretoria - Electioneering Process & the Crisis of Legitimacy in Nigeria
Mr Mike Opeyemi, Nigeria |
| 15h00 - 15h30 |
Discussion |
| 15h20 - 15h45 |
Tea break |
SESSION 4 |
| Chair: Professor Jørgen Elklit, EISA Board Member, University of Aarhus, Denmark |
| 15h45 - 16h30 |
Political Institutions & Democracy
- Democracy & Political Institutions in Southern Africa
Dr Chris Landsberg, CPS, South Africa - The Politics of Party Coalitions in Africa
Mr Felix Owuor, NDI, Kenya - Opposition Strategies for Democracy & Development
Professor Staffan I. Lindberg, Florida, USA - Funding of Political Parties
Mr Richard Calland & Ms Judith February, IDASA, Cape Town - Third Term Mania & the Shortening of the African Democracy Life Expectancy
Dr Marcellin Vidjennagni Zounmenou, Monash University, South Africa
|
| 16h30 - 17h00 |
Discussion |
SESSION 5 |
| Chair: Dr Patricia Joubert, University of Swaziland |
| 17h00 - 18h00 |
Political Institutions, Leadership & Democracy
- Traditional Leadership and Democracy in Cameroon
Dr Thaddeus Menang, National Elections Observatory, Cameroon - Powerful Presidents, Weak Parliaments: Identifying Best Practices of Executive Legislative Relations on the African Continent
Ms. Lia NijZink, DARU, University of Cape Town, South Africa - Diamonds, Dependency & Presidentialist Democracy in Botswana
Professor Kenneth Good, University of Merlbourne, Australia - When The Elephants Fight the Grass is Trampled: Executive Legislative Relations in Malawi
Ms Danga K Mughogho & Ms Kimberly Smiddy, Cape Town, South Africa |
| 18h00 - 18h30 |
Discussion |
