Platform voor publieke participatie

International IDEA’s Constitution-Building Programme helps constitution-makers by providing knowledge and direct assistance in the area of constitutional transitions. In that capacity, Internationale IDEA was asked by the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) to provide assistance with the process of developing a new constitution for The Gambia, following a constitutional crisis in 2016.

An important part of the process is the public consultation phase, where citizens are asked to provide input on topics such as presidential term limit, citizenship, fundamental rights and freedoms and much more. To help out with this, Poet Farmer developed the Public Participation Platform. This set of tools allows constitution-makers to launch a public survey, online and offline, stores all data at one centralized location, both qualitative and quantitative, and provides analysis capabilities.

Poet Farmer travelled to The Gambia, together with International IDEA to lead a number of training sessions for a selection of 30 of the CRC’s staff in Banjul, The Gambia.

Poet Farmer en International IDEA zijn vastbesloten om het platform verder te ontwikkelen, meer modules en functionaliteiten toe te voegen en het aan te bieden als een hulpmiddel om constitution building te ondersteunen in meer landen over de hele wereld.

Interested in other related projects? Learn more about our NIMD (Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy) case or go back to our Gevallen Overview.