Angola

UNDP & Partners Round Table on “Support to Civic Education Project II”

Luanda, 7 April 2009 - UNDP-Angola held a round table meeting with partners, April 7, in Luanda, to launch the currently titled “Support to Civic Education Project II”, which is a follow on the “Support to Civic Education Project I (SCEP), launched in 2006 and is wrapping up in early 2009.

The project set up a 2.5 million USD trust fund which financed 22 civic education projects across the country implemented by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). In the spring of 2008, the project was evaluated by an independent donor consultant mission, which concluded that SCEP meets an urgent and long-term educational and institutional capacity development need in Angola. In fall 2008, UNDP explored the feasibility of a follow-up civil society strengthening and civic education initiative, by consulting stakeholders of the GoA- Ministry of Planning, Angolan CSOs, and representatives of several donor agencies. There was a broad consensus that the participation of CSOs in the 2008 electoral campaign was constructive; and that means for constructive collaboration between Governmental institutions and the non-governmental sector should be explored.

The project will allow the space for Angolan CSOs to implement a menu of activities that address pressing civic education areas while the CSO practices new institutional capacity development skills which will be delivered to partners from UNDP.