Training on the State of Democracy Assessment Framework for Sierra Leone - 2025

The National Commission for Democracy is leading an assessment of Sierra Leone’s democracy, which follows a survey-based democracy assessment that NCD carried out in 2017-2018. 

The current assessment is being conducted in partnership with International IDEA and is using the Institute’s State of Democracy assessment framework. The data collection is to be carried out by the IGR and overseen by a technical sub-committee of the assessment’s National Steering Committee.    

The SoD framework was created in 2000 and provides citizens with a toolkit to comprehensively assess their democracies. It is designed to facilitate assessments that reflect local priorities, values and understandings of democracy and they are therefore largely qualitative exercises. The goal of SoD assessments is to promote public debate about the current state of a country’s democracy and its future, and they are therefore intended to be highly participatory, encouraging broad engagement throughout the process. Underpinning the assessments is a conceptual framework, which informs a unique approach to data collection and analysis.

The training will be interactive, combining presentations with group exercises. It aims to ensure that those carrying out Sierra Leone’s assessment have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the SoD framework to effectively implement it.