CALD CAFE “Generating and Managing Party Funds ”

1. CALD CAFE“Generating and Managing Party Funds”

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5. Conversation Café Simple Agreements ♦Listen with respect ♦Speak what has personal heart and meaning ♦Go for honesty and depth, but do not go on and on ♦Seek to understand, not to persuade ♦Suspend judgment as best you can ♦Invite and honor diversity of opinion

6. What kind of public support system political party should have? What lessons can we learn, both positive and negative? (30 mins)

7. 2)In your opinion, in which way/s political party can raise and spend funds? What kind of control mechanism would be good to be in place? What can your table colleagues learn from your national experience? (25 mins)

8. 3)After sharing for two rounds, what kind of ideas you find interesting? If you have to report to party officials, what would you tell them that can be done differently? What ideas do we need to take up? (25 mins)

9. Reflection from a representative of each country

10. Reflection • Sri Lanka: We need to engage different sectors, be available and approachable to the public, educate voters through media • We need to educate our party’s supporters about what we are going to do; explain our projects and campaign • Financial team to enforce financial discipline

11. Reflection • Philippines: Public support is very important. In order to gain public support, we need help from people down the line. • Challenge—limit our members to those who are credible • Strengthening the party: Capability building, integration of all members

12. Reflection • Taiwan: Pass the Law to strengthening political system • Building awareness and fairness of political party • Donation, transparency process

13. Reflection • Pakistan: public support and transparency • Strengthening party and capability building • Anti-corruption practices • Fund raising and donation is important

14. Reflection • Hong Kong: Transparent methods to spend money • Creative social media and souvenirs to raise funds

15. Reflection • Indonesia: (PDIP) training programs, creating sense of belonging, communication and media, family members helping in the election, strong membership and integration ‘together all together’ • Social media to promote the party and to build ‘trust’ via facebook, door to door, different methods

16. Reflection • Indonesia: transparency in spending money, increasing women proportion in the party • Building public trust

17. Reflection • Cambodia: Strength of the party, financial integrity

18. Reflection • Singapore: Marketing to promote the party • Funding and donation from people

19. Reflection • Thailand: persistence on the stance of the party • ‘Contributing members/supporters’ not in quantity but quality to help promoting the political party – ‘Qualified candidates’ • The strong political party helps gaining financial support. • Spending strategically and dividing finance properly – ‘Transparency’ • PR helps self-promoting.

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21. Whoever show up are the right people Whatever happen is the only thing that could have happened When it starts it starts When it is over, it is over If you find yourself in a situation where you are not comfortable or learning move somewhere else where you can 4 Principles and one law

22. Open Space • How do we make our party transparent, accountable and financially viable?

23. Report Topic: • Convener’s name: • Participants: • Main ideas and suggestions:

24. Sharing your thought on CALD • Imagine that you are an advisor to FNF, • how do we make CALD a network you want to see: an effective network meeting? • What are the issues we should focus on?