Key themes include equality and women’s active participation in public life, the representation and inclusion of young people, people with disabilities and LGBT+ people into politics. WFD continues support efforts to ensure human and political rights of all people are respected, and government representation is increasingly diverse.
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WFD continues to build on its existing work recruiting, training, and deploying UK election observers and launch new programmes to strengthen electoral institutions, including election management bodies, civil society organisations, domestic observation networks, political parties, legislatures, and, when appropriate, media.
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We bring together practitioners who share similar experiences to learn from each other and develop new methods.
We conduct political economy analyses (PEA) and use local knowledge and priorities to design and adapt our programmes.
We transform our training work, moving to a model of learner-led design that includes simulations, mentoring, secondments, handson support, and other forms of learning by doing.
We use regional and network programmes to enable learning between countries with similar traditions and challenges.
We also adopt new approaches to monitoring, evaluation, and learning – including process tracing and outcome matrices.
Collaboration with other organizations with different skillsets and methods will be increasingly important and help us to complement our action and address challenges from different angles. This will include a focus on partnering with other UK-based organisations.
As a member of the European Partnership for Democracy (EPD), we remain committed to working closely with leading European democracy assistance organisations and institutions. Following the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) of April 2018 in London, expanded our partnership with institutions from the Commonwealth.