Country Profiles

International assistance

The role of international or external support for national processes of constitution building has an instrumental impact on the design of these processes and the institutional choices that ultimately are framed in constitutions.

Training programme

The new Constitution Builders CONNECT Resource – is an interactive training tool that reinforces sharing experiences as a means to building the capacity of practitioners to solve some of the dilemmas that they face in constitution building.

Handbook

The Handbook reviews and discusses some of the institutional and procedural design choices that practitioners have recently considered during contemporary constitution building.

Issue papers

Selected issues are considered at length based on emerging and ongoing dialogues among practitioners and specialists.

Multimedia

A collection of multimedia resources from and about constitution-building processes.

Web links

The web links provide a comprehensive list of relevant organizations and partners working in constitution building and related subjects.

Country profiles give you a bird's eye view of the constitutional history of selected countries. You can browse information on the constitutional history of countries and their most recent constitution building process.

The profiles trace the various stages of the country's constitutional evolution: looking at the causes, key issues and outcomes of the different phases of the process. These country profiles also provide a snapshot of actual ongoing constitutional processes now, highlighting key issues and providing updates of key milestones and events as they unfold.

Africa

Latin America

Asia

Europe /
Middle east

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