■ What is the virtual library?

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.

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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.

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Handbook

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

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Issue papers

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

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Multimedia

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

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Web links

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

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The Virtual Library is a one of the knowledge resources components being developed by International IDEA's Constitution Building Processes Programme. It consists of an extensive online collection of comparative documentation on key constitution building processes globally. The documents cover all phases of constitution making processes such as preparatory, drafting, adoption and implementation phases. The collected documents are in paper, electronic, digital, audio and video formats.

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