Democracy Reporting International

Democracy Reporting International gGmbH (DRI) is a German non-profit organisation that works on the promotion of political participation of citizens, government accountability, and the development of democratic institutions across the world.. With a headquarter in Berlin, DRI currently has eight country offices and works across the European Union, Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa to provide policy advice on that matter with a focus on institutional aspects of democracy, namely elections, parliaments, constitutions, and democracy standards. DRI is a member of European Partnership for Democracy.

History

Democracy Reporting International was founded in Berlin in 2006. The organisation initially focused its work on research and analysis, and over the years it has broadened its work to direct engagement with local partners on the ground to improve democratic structures across the countries where they work.

In 2010, DRI opened its first country office in Pakistan, working on supporting the country's efforts in electoral reforms, human rights compliance and strengthening the local governance. DRI has been working with the federal parliament, the provincial assemblies, the Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Affairs (PIPS), the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC).

After the Euromaidan revolution, which began in November 2013, DRI opened its country office in Ukraine in March 2014. However, due to the Russian invasion on Ukraine in February 2022, DRI had to close its office in Kyiv.

Programmes

DRI embarked on a multi-country project in January 2017, through the European Union's GSP+ trade scheme on human rights programmes in nine countries and three continents. The organisation identifies the countries’ most pressing needs within the GSP+ framework and implements tailored activities, which include raising awareness of the UN and ILO conventions, building the capacity of civil society organisations, convening multi-stakeholder dialogues for meaningful exchange among a wide range of participants, and conducting global comparative analysis.

Since 2018, DRI has been a part of the UN Global Compact, which includes NGOs, businesses, and other organizations to implement sustainability principles and work towards achieving the UN goals. It actively works on supporting the principles of the UN Global Compact, including anti-corruption, environment, human rights, and labour and implements them in its internal policies and mainstreams all aspects of its work to confirm these principles.

DRI also works on women empowerment, in Sri Lanka, the organisation carried out training and dialogues for Sri Lankan women politicians, in order to build their capacity and encourage more women to run for office with the country's new gender quota.

Since 2019, the organisation has worked to promote comprehensive discussion between legal scholars and practitioners about and around questions of democracy, the rule of law, protection of fundamental rights in Europe and improve public understanding of the rule of law in the EU as part of the re:constitution programme. In 2022, the organisation published a report that found the non-implementation of judgments of the European Courts has become a systemic problem, with 40% of leading judgments from the European Court of Human Rights from the last 10 years have not been implemented

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