Ammie, a South Africa national, takes over from Nick Branson who bows out on March 31st 2013.Following his graduation from Center for International Studies and Democracy, Nick Branson has delivered projects for the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), helping to increase the capacity of political parties across Africa in the Africa Liberal Network.
He has been overseeing the Liberal Democrats' WFD programme in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as supporting the Secretariat of the Africa Liberal Network, which includes close to 35 liberal parties from across the continent. He has gained experience of designing and managing technical assistance projects in Senegal, C™te d'Ivoire, DRC, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana. His work has focused on improving the policy development, strategic communications and campaigning technique of political parties, as well as increasing women's participation, promoting voter education, and training partisan election observers so as to ensure that democratic processes are respected.
