The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD; Dutch: Nederlands Instituut voor Meerpartijendemocratie) is a democracy assistance organisation of political parties in the Netherlands for political parties in young democracies. NIMD supports joint initiatives of political parties to improve the functioning of multi-party democracies abroad.The institute was founded in 2000 by seven parties across the political spectrum (CDA, PvdA, VVD, Groenlinks, Democrats 66, Christen Unie and SGP).