Development Policy Management Forum e-NewsForum
DPMF e-NewsForum is a free electronic newsletter that comes out every two months. The main purpose of this small electronic newsletter is to:
- Exchange information on issues of interest to the three constituencies of DPMF Network- these are Policy Makers, Civil Society Organisations and Researchers/Lecturers/Scholars.
- To make available, information and data of relevance and interest to the Network and which is not easily accessible to the members of the Network.
- As this online interaction intensifies DPMF intends to introduce online discussion among its network on current issues of concern to the different constituencies.
The DPMF is a pan-African, non-profit, research and training CSO (Civil Society Organisation) located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the UNECA (Economic Commission for Africa) compound. Since its inception in March 1995, DPMF has carried out important activities aimed at consolidating and institutionalizing democratic governance in Africa. In particular, it has focused on enhancing institutional capacity for development policy management in African countries. Among DPMF's core areas of interventions is conflict management, resolution, and particularly, post conflict reconciliation. DPMF has created and is expanding a pan-African network of concerned individuals and institutions to consolidate democratic governance by enhancing capacity in the policy making process, in order to face the challenges of development, reconstruction in post-conflict situations, and promotion of an African renaissance.
The DPMF is a pan-African, non-profit, research and training CSO (Civil Society Organisation) located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the UNECA (Economic Commission for Africa) compound. Since its inception in March 1995, DPMF has carried out important activities aimed at consolidating and institutionalizing democratic governance in Africa. In particular, it has focused on enhancing institutional capacity for development policy management in African countries. Among DPMF's core areas of interventions is conflict management, resolution, and particularly, post conflict reconciliation. DPMF has created and is expanding a pan-African network of concerned individuals and institutions to consolidate democratic governance by enhancing capacity in the policy making process, in order to face the challenges of development, reconstruction in post-conflict situations, and promotion of an African renaissance. The DPMF's programs focus on the following five core areas:
· Collaborative and Creative workshops, including sensitization workshops for senior policy makers,
· Annual General Policy Conferences providing a forum for dialogue between policy makers and researchers,
· Comparative Research at sub-regional level,
· Building Networks of civil society groups and National Development Management Institutes,
· Publication and Dissemination of research findings and/or basic data and information.
Regular DPMF Publications are the following:
· Books,
· DPMN Bulletin, (tri-annual),
· Policy Briefs,
· Occasional Papers,
· Workshop Reports and Conference Proceedings,
· Roster of African Experts in Development Management,
· DPMF e-NewsForum (online newsletter).
In addition, DPMF's website http://www.dpmf.org, provides regularly updated information about the activities of the organization and full-text documents of all DPMF publications, except books.
DPMF's fundamental objective is to strengthen the institutionalization of the democratic process through interactions between policy makers, civil society leaders and researchers. It is hoped that such interactions will not only strengthen institutional capacity in the policy process, but also deepen democratic governance in Africa, the ultimate objective of DPMF.