Fourth Workshop of the “Strengthening Civil Society Organizations in Myanmar 2019-2020” Program: Democracy and the Civil Society Engagement via Social Survey

EAI has provided ongoing research and institutional assistance to the strengthening of civil society organizations and democracy promotion through the “Strengthening Civil Society Organizations in Myanmar” program since 2015. The fourth workshop of the 2019-2020 program, “Promoting Civil Society Engagement in Myanmar’s Electoral Democracy,” was held online on May 30th in 2020.

In the fourth workshop, discussions based on online Statistics lectures took place. Before students had the chance to participate in discussions, they acquired theoretical knowledge by listening to the first online lectures on “Democracy and Civil Society Engagement via Social Survey” and engaged in this workshop with Senior Research Fellow Jeong Han-Wool at Hankook Research to examine the legitimacy and Myanmar’s democratic consolidation and discuss ways to take democracy in Myanmar to the next step.

Due to COVID-19, EAI has replaced the fourth Yangon workshop which was scheduled in late April to an online platform with remote lectures and discussion sessions. EAI plans to hold further lectures on civil society engagement in electoral democracy in light of Myanmar’s November 2020 general elections. The “Strengthening Civil Society Organizations in Myanmar” program has been supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) since 2015.

Lecturer
Jeong, Han-Wool, Senior Research Fellow at Hankook Research

Program Manager
Younghyun Lee, Research Associate at EAI
Juhyun Jun, Research Associate at EAI

Participating Institutions
Sandhi Governance Institute
Yangon School of Political Science
Another Development
Yone Kyi Yar Knowledge Propagation Society
Naushawng Development Institute