A Cool Politics Café Exploring Polarisation in South Africa
Defining polarisation Explaining concepts like polarisation, which typically refers to more extreme differences in social and political opinions that, in turn, lead to animosity…
Themes
Democracy Works Foundation develops and implements work that fits within our 4 core programs, following well defined strategies and methodologies.
In addition to this we have identified cross-cutting thematic focus areas which we prioritise. Each project developed and implemented for each program must focus on at least one of our thematic focus areas or Themes.
Our Themes for 2015 are:
- Gender and women empowerment
- Youth development
- Civil Society (financial) sustainability
- Technology for development
- a New Politic
- Social Compacts
This page captures content and work relevant to the Themes.
Empowering youth participation in the democratic process
Democracy Works Foundation recently attended and contributed to the Youth Activism Programme at the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation held on Friday, 24 May 2024. The…
Women’s parliament highlights the impact of sustance abuse, climate change and economic empowerment of women
The Northern Cape Provincial Legislature (NCPL) in partnership with Democracy Works Foundation, will host its Provincial Women’s Parliament celebrating women’s month on the 30…
Zambia Youth and Women Manifesto
Within the framework of the Southern Africa Political Parties and Dialogue (SAPP&D) Programme, Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) in Zambia in partnership with the Zambia…
Democracy Works Academy 2021 Mentors
Meet the Democracy Works Academy Mentors for the 2021 Fellows cohort. Our mentors are Melandre Frost – Research Specialist for the City of Tshwane,…
Cool Politics Café: Intergenerational Dialogue
Democracy Works Academy Invites you to our Inter-generational dialogue, as we reflect on a democratic South Africa and try to reimagine a better life…
Democracy Works Academy 2021 Fellows Cohort
Unless we purposefully create avenues to develop the countries future leaders. By providing access to resources and opportunities to empower them. We simply leave…
Cool Politics Cafe
Meet our Panelist for our Youth-Led Conversation on 9 June, where we will be explore a pressing topic: “Why Access to Opportunities for South…
Cool Politics Café
Join our Youth-Led, Cool Politics Café (Dialogue discussion), where we will be exploring the topic: Why Access to Opportunities For South Africa’s Youth is…
ZAMBIA WOMEN’S MANIFESTO – 2021
About 50.8% of Zambia’s population are women. Sadly, women are lagging behind in many ways. Their representation in political decision-making structures is dismal. Their…