NDI organizes Philippine assessment mission, meets with CALD and LP

(March 22, 2006 / Manila) Ms. Laura Thornton-Olivry, former resident director of National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and currently an NDI consultant  met with representatives of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) and the Liberal Party of the Philippines as part of NDI’s Philippine assessment mission.

Among those present during the meeting were former CALD Chairman and Education Secretary Florencio Abad, Liberal Party Chairman and Senate Majority Floorleader Senator Francis Pangilinan, former Undersecretary and MP Jose Luis Martin Gascon, CALD Executive Director John Coronel, LP Director General Concepcion Asis, National Institute for Policy Studies Executive Director Lambert Ramirez and CALD Program Officer Paolo Zamora.

Aside from Ms. Thornton, the other members of the mission included Ms. Nelia Agbon, NDI-ARMM resident senior program manager and Ms. Myrna Cestina, NDI-ARMM finance/operations assistant. The team would also meet senior representatives of the national government, election monitoring groups, political parties, civil society organizations and members of academia and the media.

CALD and NDI jointly worked on two regional workshops that focused on internal and external strategies for political party reform in Asia.  In 2004, there were also election missions as joint ventures of the two organizations to Taipei, Seoul, Manila and Jakarta.

Categorised in: News Article

This post was written by CALD