The Constitution Building Processes team of International IDEA held a two-day showcase of its capacity building programme for constitution building for the UN DPA.

The Constitution Building Processes Programme of International IDEA and the International Commission of Jurists - Kenya organized a pilot of two modules of the Constitution Building Training Programme in Nairobi, Kenya on 2-6 November 2009.

The modules piloted in Nairobi were 'Addressing and Preventing Conflict Through Constitution Building' and 'Building a Culture of Rights and Responsibilities'. An experienced team of three facilitators (Okumba Miruka, Salma Mlidi, and John Paul Sonko) engaged the participants through an interactive learning methodology. Twenty-two national practitioners from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe participated in the event.

South Sudan is currently engaged in a review process of its Transitional Constitution, which came into force on 9 July 2011, its date of independence from Sudan. The National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC) was established to review the transitional constitution, conduct a public consultation process, to conduct a nationwide civic education campaign, and to prepare and adopt a new draft constitution to be taken up by a National Constitutional Conference. In this context, International IDEA is supporting the constitution building process of South Sudan, and recently held on 27-30 June in Juba a capacity building workshop titled Constitution Building for Democracy.