WHO WE ARE

The African Democratic Institute (ADI) is a non-profit, independent and non-governmental African organisation. ADI aims to enhance democracy and democratic values, well as encourage the development of democratic leadership within the African continent. ADI seeks to empower citizens to increase participation in national issues through civic education, political and economic workshops and public debates. ADI was founded in 2009 and is currently active in Swaziland, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Morocco and Senegal.

The Institute currently has a team of staff who co-ordinate and implement projects within the African region.

WHERE WE WORK

The African Democratic Institute is currently carrying out democracy projects in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Swaziland and Botswana. ADI has also some democracy initiatives underway in Kenya, Senegal and Morocco. ADI aspires to ignite the whole of Southern Africa, with the message of hope and democracy by 2011 and the entire continent by 2014. In the next few months the Institute will be launching debate platforms in Zambia and Tanzania with a view of building the world’s largest debating initiative in future.

WHAT WE DO

The African Democratic Institute is actively involved in five programs areas:

1. Enhancing democracy through debates
2. Enhancing democracy by building capacity of existing leadership
3. Enhancing democracy by building future leadership
4. Enhancing democracy through economic empowerment
5. Enhancing democracy through education

PROJECTS

African Democratic Institute -Debate Club (ADI-DC)

The ADI Debate Club is a debate platform created by the African Democratic Institute in order to achieve democracy and economic emancipation of Africa by assembling young minds to discuss solutions on problematic countries. This concept is being implemented in partnership with the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. This initiative is currently operational in South Africa and Zimbabwe and the idea is to have these debates in five countries by April and these countries are Kenya, Malawi, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe and the entire southern African region by year end (2010 December). Parallel to these public debates are high school debates that are currently being rolled out in South Africa. These initiatives shall be implemented in all African countries and through these platform youths are going to be identified who are going to work under the ADI youth leadership program.