Details

Cooperation between the Sam Rainsy Party and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Workshop on

Representing Local Government Competence and Interest in the Party

For the Local Government Master Trainers and the General Secretariat of the Party

July 24, 2006

8.00 a.m.Registration

8.30 a.m. Opening

8.45 a.m.Party organization – the example of the Christian Democratic Party, Member of CDI

oobjectives of party organization

ogeneral outline of national, regional and local organization

omembership and party finances

ogroups within the party

Mr. Tim-Rainer Bornholt, Secretary General, Local Government Group of the Christian Democratic Parties in Germany

10.00 a.m.Coffee break

10.15 a.m.Groups within the party

oObjectives of organizing groups

oStatus, roles, and organization of groups within the party

oIndividual groups

Mr. Tim-Rainer Bornholt, Secretary General, Local Government Group of the Christian Democratic Parties in Germany

11.15 a.m.The Local Government Group in the Christian Democratic Parties in Germany

oPolitical objectives

oStatus, roles and organization

oFinances

oDecision-making

Mr. Tim-Rainer Bornholt, Secretary General, Local Government Group of the Christian Democratic Parties in Germany

12.00 noonLunch break

2.00 p.m.The work of the Local Government Group – the example of a working group

oMembership of the working group

oObjectives

oWorking procedures

oCooperation partners

-Within the party

-With other parties

-Parliaments

-Commune associations

-Others

oDecision-making – procedures, constraints and results

oStrengths, challenges and limitations of the group

Mr. Tim-Rainer Bornholt, Secretary General, Local Government Group of the Christian Democratic Parties in Germany

3.30 p.m.Coffee break

3.45 p.m.Representing local government interest in the Sam Rainsy Party

oObjectives and organization

oThe role of the Master Trainers

NN, Speaker of the Sam Rainsy Party

4.30 p.m.Open forum – Options to improve local strength of the party

5.00 p.m.End of day 1

July 25, 2006

8.00 a.m. Experiences in conducting campaigns for commune elections with the party local government group – strategies and methods, successes and failures from the German perspective

Part 1

9.30 a.m.Coffee break

10.00 a.m.Experiences in conducting campaigns for commune elections – strategies and methods, successes and failures from the German perspective

Part 2

Mr. Tim-Rainer Bornholt, Secretary General, Local Government Group of the Christian Democratic Parties in Germany

12.00 noonLunch break

2.00 p.m.Group discussion: Lessons learned for the Preparations for the 2007 commune elections

NN, Moderator of the Sam Rainsy Party

5.00 p.m.End of day 2, closing