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Since 2007, WFD has been working in Uganda to support more inclusive, accountable, and transparent political systems and institutions – such as the Parliament of Uganda. So far, our programmes have promoted, and continue to promote, greater access and inclusion of women, youth, and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in formal and informal political processes. Additionally, they have facilitated scrutiny of government performance including progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
26 November 2021
WFD started working in the Maldives in July 2019. The Democratic Accountability and Stability Strengthening programme has two main focus areas; enhancing the operation of parliamentary committees to promote accountability and scrutiny of laws, and strengthening of parliamentary processes and procedures for the Parliament to become a more inclusive, gender-responsive and accountable institution. WFD’s work in the Maldives supports MPs, parliamentary staff and civil society organisations through exposure, technical assistance and capacity building opportunities.
10 December 2021
This guide for parliamentary practice outlines an approach to assessing the implementation and the impact of climate and environmental legislation at national level.
Guide | 01 April 2021
In September 2018, WFD launched the three-year Western Balkans Democracy Initiative to strengthen political parties, parliamentary practice and democratic institutions in the region. The program in Montenegro worked on inclusion of the less represented groups (youth and marginalized women), with the aim to engage them more in the public and political life. After these initiatives, the program focused on the improvement of transparency and accountability policies. EU accession negotiations are the primary focus for institutions in Montenegro. Progress under Chapters 23 and 24 are central to the process, requiring the implementation of certain reforms before negotiations in other areas are taken forward.
Support for Montenegrin political parties with cross-party dialogue and to civil society organizations on transparency, accountability and effective policymaking will contribute to this reform agenda.
Support for Montenegrin political parties with cross-party dialogue and to civil society organizations on transparency, accountability and effective policymaking will contribute to this reform agenda.
13 December 2021
The Western Balkans Democracy Initiative (WBDI) works with seven parliaments, public institutions, political parties and civil society organisations across five countries to improve representation of women, young people and persons with disability in political processes that impact on their lives. WBDI will support political parties to make their internal structures more democratic and responsive to marginalised groups policy needs.
13 December 2021
Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Following a series of demonstrations in late 2013, an uprising and early elections in 2014 put Ukraine on the path away from Russia’s orbit and towards a European future – a path that requires major social, economic and political reforms.
13 December 2021
In partnership with GIZ Ukraine, WFD helped establish a Financial and Economic Analysis Office (FEAO) in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (parliament) in 2015, in order to provide the parliament with accessible economic and financial information and help it monitor public spending.
Ukraine | 13 December 2021
The WFD Myanmar programme has now ended.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) is the UK public body dedicated to supporting democracy around the world.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) သည် ကမ္ဘာ့နေရာ အသီးသီးရှိ ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်ကို အစဉ်တစိုက် ပံ့ပိုးကူညီပေးသည့် ယူကေနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်သူပိုင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
In 2016, WFD started a programme to provide technical and non-partisan support the Union-level Parliaments of Myanmar. All programme activities were suspended at the end of January 2021 and the country office closed at end of June 2021.
WFD သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်ထောင်စုအဆင့် လွှတ်တော်များကို ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ဘက်မလိုက် သော အကူအညီများ ပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်ရန်အတွက် လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များကို ၂၀၁၆ ခုနှစ်မှစတင်၍ ဆောင် ရွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များအားလုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလအကုန်မှစ၍ ဆိုင်းငံ့ထားခဲ့ပြီး WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇွန်လအကုန်တွင် ပိတ်သိမ်းခဲ့ပါသည်။
The WFD Myanmar programme worked with legislators, parliamentary committees, parliamentary staff and civil society organisations to improve the technical capacity of Parliament, encourage legislators to engage effectively with the people they represent and promote better engagement between Parliament and civil society.
WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအစီအစဉ်သည် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ၊ လွှတ် တော်ကော်မတီများ၊ လွှတ်တော်ဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ပူး ပေါင်း၍ လွှတ်တော်၏ ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာစွမ်းရည်ကိုမြှင့်တင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များက မိမိတို့ ကိုယ်စားပြုသည့်လူထုနှင့် ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင်ရွက် နိုင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော်နှင့် အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအကြား ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင် ရွက်မှု ပိုမိုအားကောင်းလာစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) is the UK public body dedicated to supporting democracy around the world.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) သည် ကမ္ဘာ့နေရာ အသီးသီးရှိ ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်ကို အစဉ်တစိုက် ပံ့ပိုးကူညီပေးသည့် ယူကေနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်သူပိုင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
In 2016, WFD started a programme to provide technical and non-partisan support the Union-level Parliaments of Myanmar. All programme activities were suspended at the end of January 2021 and the country office closed at end of June 2021.
WFD သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်ထောင်စုအဆင့် လွှတ်တော်များကို ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ဘက်မလိုက် သော အကူအညီများ ပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်ရန်အတွက် လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များကို ၂၀၁၆ ခုနှစ်မှစတင်၍ ဆောင် ရွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များအားလုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလအကုန်မှစ၍ ဆိုင်းငံ့ထားခဲ့ပြီး WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇွန်လအကုန်တွင် ပိတ်သိမ်းခဲ့ပါသည်။
The WFD Myanmar programme worked with legislators, parliamentary committees, parliamentary staff and civil society organisations to improve the technical capacity of Parliament, encourage legislators to engage effectively with the people they represent and promote better engagement between Parliament and civil society.
WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအစီအစဉ်သည် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ၊ လွှတ် တော်ကော်မတီများ၊ လွှတ်တော်ဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ပူး ပေါင်း၍ လွှတ်တော်၏ ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာစွမ်းရည်ကိုမြှင့်တင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များက မိမိတို့ ကိုယ်စားပြုသည့်လူထုနှင့် ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင်ရွက် နိုင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော်နှင့် အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအကြား ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင် ရွက်မှု ပိုမိုအားကောင်းလာစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။
13 December 2021
In Georgia, WFD is the sole implementer of the UK-government funded Advancing Environmental Democracy in Georgia programme, which aims to generate the sustained political will necessary to address environmental and climate issues.
The programme’s approach and actions are underpinned by the key principles of environmental democracy, and focuses on the dual pillars concerned with increasing transparency and on enhancing civic participation in environmental decision making.
The programme’s approach and actions are underpinned by the key principles of environmental democracy, and focuses on the dual pillars concerned with increasing transparency and on enhancing civic participation in environmental decision making.
13 December 2021
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) provided support to the National Assembly of Armenia. WFD’s partnership was sought by the National Assembly of Armenia as the country transitioned from a presidential to a parliamentary system of governance. Until 2019 WFD supported parliament’s role in public financial management and provided technical and procedural assistance to the assembly.
Following the “Velvet Revolution” and elections of 2018, WFD worked in partnership with local and international implementers to increase its support to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. WFD led on assessing the needs of parliament and designing a substantial new package of support to increase the effectiveness of the National Assembly. Through the UNDP-led “Modern Parliament for a Modern Armenia” programme, WFD supported the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from June 2020 to 2021. In June 2021, Westminster Foundation for Democracy marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Armenia.
Following the “Velvet Revolution” and elections of 2018, WFD worked in partnership with local and international implementers to increase its support to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. WFD led on assessing the needs of parliament and designing a substantial new package of support to increase the effectiveness of the National Assembly. Through the UNDP-led “Modern Parliament for a Modern Armenia” programme, WFD supported the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from June 2020 to 2021. In June 2021, Westminster Foundation for Democracy marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Armenia.
13 December 2021
WFD worked to enhance the National Assembly’s overall effectiveness through increasing parliamentary oversight capacity, transparency, and accountability as well as increasing participation and engagement between the National Assembly and civil society. WFD analysed the secretariat of the National Assembly, gave recommendations to the management and produced two e-learning modules on post-legislative scrutiny and gender-responsive budgeting. WFD worked closely with civil society representatives to enhance gender-responsive budgeting tools and introduce them. In June 2021, Westminster Foundation for Democracy marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Armenia.
Armenia | 13 December 2021
Once the Summit for Democracy is over and we move into the year of action, legislators and political leaders who want to promote respect for human rights and help build disability-inclusive societies would do well to bear this set of skills and qualities in mind – and make sure they cultivate them
03 December 2021
A new report by Dr Tom Caygill analyses the frequency and the outcomes of PLS that has taken place in the UK Parliament in order to provide an insight into how this form of scrutiny is being undertaken.
Report | 02 December 2021
One of the least-trumpeted outcomes of COP26 is the Glasgow work programme on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). Its substance is unmissable as countries bite the bullet and start working out how to deliver on their Glasgow pledges.
30 November 2021