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South Asian workshop for the Training of Moderators
South Asian workshop for the Training of Moderators

Our work in South Asia

South Asian Activities

The Friedrich Naumann Foundation has offices in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but through its regional work reaches out all states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). The regional office is located in New Delhi, from where transnational activities in the following three focal issues are looked after

Economic Freedom

The Foundation, for instance, has been working with the SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) since its inception in 1994. The common goal is to strengthen regional integration and structures of market economy, especially through trade and investments. For example, the SAARC Business Leader Conclave takes place every two years. Leading politicians and entrepreneurs of the South Asian region discuss with internationally renowned economists how to open up South Asian markets and benefit from the opportunities of globalisation.

Rule of Law, Human and Civil Rights

Currently two international networks are created to stop the misuse of power by South Seminar on Police Reform in Bangladesh by Network for Improved Policing in South Asia (NIPSA)
Seminar on Police Reform in Bangladesh by Network for Improved Policing in South Asia (NIPSA) Asian governments: The first one on Right to Information, which enables citizens to exercise control over public administration and the second on Police Reform. An Indian partner, the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), can offer substantial expertise and experience in both these subjects. Reform processes in the SAARC states can thus be supported and influenced by competent actors of civil society.

Conflict Management

The Kashmir conflict is one of the main obstacles on the way to enhanced regional integration. FNF supports the Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation (CDR) which provides a forum for representatives of civil society in Kashmir on both sides of the Line of Control to articulate their concerns and suggestions which are forwarded to the Governments of Pakistan and India.
Our Regional Brochure
Freedom versus Corruption in India
India is listed as 95 out of 182 in Transparency International’s 2011 list of countries graded from 1 to 10 – with 10 being the least corrupt. India is graded at 3.1 out of 10 in terms of how clean it is from corruption, and shares this position with Albania, Kiribati, Swaziland and Tonga. This statistic gives us a broad idea of how Indians perceive corruption in their
country, but the story of corruption in India is a dynamic one, and how it affects the freedom of Indians is complex. Read more...


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Creating an Index to Measure Perceived Economic Opportunity
Sri Lanka has achieved fast growth with falling unemployment and poverty There is visible change in post war Sri Lanka with new roads, high rise buildings, designer boutiques and fast cars. According to the Central Bank economic growth has moved up to the 8 percent per annum region. Most recent data suggests that the economy picked up in 2010 and sustained the growth rate in 2011. Agriculture was estimated to have grown by 2.0 percent contributing 12 percent to GDP while industry and services had expanded by 10.1 and 8.6 percent contributing 30 and 58 percent to GDP respectively. Read more...
South Asia Ilyas Kashmiri: A Too-Convenient Connection
Since the assassination of Osama bin Laden there has been a great deal of media and intelligence chatter on who would replace bin Laden as the leader of Al Qaida. One name, that of Ilyas Kashmiri, generated a certain amount of interest in South Asia, not least because it seemingly establishes the interconnectedness of the networks from Kashmir through Pakistan, Afghanistan and all the way to the Al Qaida’s Western collaborators including in Europe and the United States. His death, after a drone strike on June 3, 2011, gives us a chance to examine the details of the life of one of the most dangerous militants to arise out of South Asia. Read more
NIPSA
Freedomgate Pakistan
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