Subject: NDI-USIP Afghanistan mission report
From: "Ken Wollack" <[email-masked]>
To: "Alexis Krieg" <[email-masked]>, "Bernard Aronson" <[email-masked]>, "Donna Brazile" <[email-masked]>, "Elizabeth Bagley" <[email-masked]>, "Harriet Babbitt" <[email-masked]>, "Howard Berman" <[email-masked]>, "Howard Dean" <[email-masked]>, "J. Brian Atwood" <[email-masked]>, "Jan Stewart" <[email-masked]>, "Jim O'Brien" <[email-masked]>, "Joan Baggett Calambokidis" <[email-masked]>, "Johnnie Carson" <[email-masked]>, "Lynda Thomas" <[email-masked]>, "Marc Nathanso
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:27:32 -0500

I thought you would want to receive the joint report by NDI and the U.S.
Institute of Peace (USIP) on our recent assessment mission to Afghanistan.
Below is a description of the mission along with a link to the report
itself.

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.

With best regards,

Ken

Kenneth Wollack
President
National Democratic Institute
455 Massachusetts Ave., NW
8th Floor
Washington, DC 20001
Tel. No. 202-728-5500
Email: [email-masked]
www.ndi.org

The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the United States Institute of
Peace (USIP) have released the *attached report*
<https://contribute.ndi.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=23665&qid=1821640>
 on Afghanistan political and election reform developments based on a
mission they recently conducted in Kabul. The report features observations
on the National Unity Government two years since its establishment, the
country’s present political environment, and the ongoing electoral reform
process – including the current discourse on electoral systems, electoral
constituencies, and their effect on political competition. The report also
includes recommendations to support the electoral reform process,
particularly during the government’s ongoing deliberation of when and how
to conduct overdue parliamentary elections.

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The report is informed by meetings with much of Afghanistan’s political
leadership, including President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, Chief Executive
Abdullah Abdullah, former President Hamid Karzai, heads of political
parties as well as civil society representatives, women activists, youth
groups, media, and members of the international community in Afghanistan.

The mission’s delegation included Dr. Karin von Hippel, director-general of
the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI); Peter Manikas, NDI senior
associate and regional director for Asia; Scott Worden, USIP director for
Afghanistan and Central Asia programs; and Raissa Tatad-Hazell, NDI deputy
regional director for Asia