Working for the common good

“Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it’s something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.”(Abbie Hoffman) By Solveig Leland One of the sessions in iLEDA’s Citizen Leadership Training for African community leaders deals with the question of what a citizen is. Citizens [...]

Leaders that can make a difference

Democracies do not function well without leaders. But democracies do not function well with only a chosen few providing leadership either. Common citizens can be leaders, and should take up leadership roles in civil society for democracies to prosper, argues Auburn Daniels from iLEDA. See his article here.

AIDS in Africa – the political cost

See the presentations made by Idasa staff at the international AIDS conference in Vienna on 18 July here. Governance and AIDS Programme (GAP) director Kondwani Chirambo, manager Marietjie Oelofsen, and unit heads Phoebe Machere, Vailet Kowayi and Jaqueline Nzisabira looked at the state of leadership, state budgets and the challenges people living with AIDS face [...]

Building community leadership in Malawi

iLEDA Volunteer Amy Eaglestone from the Netherlands visits Idasa’s iLEDA School for citizen leadership for democracy in Malawi. She travelled to the southern African country with iLEDA School head Noxolo Mgudlwa and trainers Auburn Daniels and Lesley Adams. She discovers several development challenges and argues for citizen leadership training. By Amy Eaglestone It was raining [...]