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WFD works to strengthen the UK-Nepal democratic and parliamentary relationship by sharing knowledge and best practices and exchanging experiences through bilateral as well as regional forums. WFD encourages and supports peer-to-peer learning between parliaments, MPs, and parliamentary staff, as well as one-on-one mentoring, meetings, national workshops, regional seminars, and international conferences. This work benefits and strengthens the functioning of parliamentary practitioners. WFD supports Nepal in implementing the reforms promised under the Nepalese Constitution, including the devolution process. These reforms are intended to bring about better services for citizens, a more equal distribution of resources among the regions, greater levels of gender equality, and the inclusion of all Nepalis and their representatives in decision-making processes.
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
In 2012, WFD started working in Pakistan by supporting the federal and provincial legislatures. Over the years, WFD has worked with stakeholders both at federal and provincial level to strengthen the parliamentary system in Pakistan.
Currently, WFD’s work in Pakistan focuses on two themes. Firstly, promoting accountable politics by assisting the parliament to scrutinise government performance through legislative and financial oversight mechanisms. Secondly, WFD Pakistan works to improve marginalised and vulnerable groups’ formal and informal political participation. This includes strengthening women’s political leadership to help achieve meaningful formal political participation for women in Pakistan.
To achieve these aims, WFD works with with Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS), Women Parliamentary Caucus Pakistan, standing committee of Climate Change, Public Accounts Committees, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) task-forces and secretariats at federal and provincial levels.
Currently, WFD’s work in Pakistan focuses on two themes. Firstly, promoting accountable politics by assisting the parliament to scrutinise government performance through legislative and financial oversight mechanisms. Secondly, WFD Pakistan works to improve marginalised and vulnerable groups’ formal and informal political participation. This includes strengthening women’s political leadership to help achieve meaningful formal political participation for women in Pakistan.
To achieve these aims, WFD works with with Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Services (PIPS), Women Parliamentary Caucus Pakistan, standing committee of Climate Change, Public Accounts Committees, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) task-forces and secretariats at federal and provincial levels.
13 December 2021
Across the world, WFD works on accountability and transparency, elections, participation and openness, inclusion, environmental democracy, and women's political leadership.
11 November 2021
In Sri Lanka, WFD supports parliament in its lawmaking and policy scrutiny functions, especially through its committee system. WFD also supports legislators who deputise for the Speaker and the operationalisation of newer rules and processes of Parliament such as the Standing Orders and Code of Conduct. Gender responsove and inclusive approaches, as well as public engagement, are integral to WFD support. Additionally, WFD is exploring the role and responsibilities of parliament in supporting national harmony and security and provides technical assistance to the Parliament’s finance committees and the National Audit Office of Sri Lanka to support anti-corruption initiatives. Working at the national level with legislators, parliamentary officials, independent commissions, and civil society organisations is helping to create accountable and inclusive policies and laws that benefit all Sri Lankans.
13 December 2021
The 2019 Sudanese revolution started with street protests in late 2018, initially sparked by continuous hikes in food prices and then growing into months long pro-democracy protests. On 11th April 2019, a coup d’état deposed President Omar al-Bashir after 30 years in power. Following further protests and the 3rd June Khartoum massacre, the Transitional Military Council and the Forces of Freedom and Change alliance agreed on the formation of a civilian-led transitional government; a 39-month transition process to return to democracy. WFD has engaged with key stakeholders working to support the country’s democratic transition.
WFD has previously implemented a project focused on “Supporting Inclusive Political Transition in Sudan”, supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Through this programme, WFD worked with democratic institutions such as the interim Government, the Transitional Sovereignty Council, and local civil society organisations to support a peaceful transition towards a multi-party democracy in Sudan.
Other themes of our work in Sudan have included women’s inclusion and women’s political leadership, political parties, and the political transition. WFD has also engaged Sudanese stakeholders in our regional MENA-wide work working to end violence against women and girls.
WFD has previously implemented a project focused on “Supporting Inclusive Political Transition in Sudan”, supported by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Through this programme, WFD worked with democratic institutions such as the interim Government, the Transitional Sovereignty Council, and local civil society organisations to support a peaceful transition towards a multi-party democracy in Sudan.
Other themes of our work in Sudan have included women’s inclusion and women’s political leadership, political parties, and the political transition. WFD has also engaged Sudanese stakeholders in our regional MENA-wide work working to end violence against women and girls.
13 December 2021
WFD has been working in Tunisia since 2011. Through our programmes we have worked with the Tunisian legislature on constitutional drafting and strengthening the parliament’s oversight, legislative and representative roles. WFD has also worked with Tunisian political parties to promote the leadership of women and youth, as well as supported civil society to inform and influence policy making.
Key successes include:
- The creation of a Public Accounts Committee, the first financial oversight committee in Tunisia’s history. The committee has been very active during the parliament's first and second mandates with processes and practices inspired by the UK PAC processes.
The training of civil society activists on policy making and influencing, resulting in the development of a policy paper on the employment of people with disabilities which was submitted to the parliament and was successful in securing changes to the legislation.
- WFD’s current programme in Tunisia focuses on the role of civil society in in policy making and influencing.The programme also focuses on the benefits of sharing experiences, best practices and lessons learnt with regional and international counterparts.
Our engagement in Tunisia is guided by the common vision that in democracies founded on rule of law, capable political and civil society institutions must meet the citizens needs by being (i) responsive to the public, (ii) transparent in how they operate, and (iii) effective and capable of contributing towards a stable and more prosperous society.
Key successes include:
- The creation of a Public Accounts Committee, the first financial oversight committee in Tunisia’s history. The committee has been very active during the parliament's first and second mandates with processes and practices inspired by the UK PAC processes.
The training of civil society activists on policy making and influencing, resulting in the development of a policy paper on the employment of people with disabilities which was submitted to the parliament and was successful in securing changes to the legislation.
- WFD’s current programme in Tunisia focuses on the role of civil society in in policy making and influencing.The programme also focuses on the benefits of sharing experiences, best practices and lessons learnt with regional and international counterparts.
Our engagement in Tunisia is guided by the common vision that in democracies founded on rule of law, capable political and civil society institutions must meet the citizens needs by being (i) responsive to the public, (ii) transparent in how they operate, and (iii) effective and capable of contributing towards a stable and more prosperous society.
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 2021, WFD Kyrgyzstan marked a decade’s work to support key democratic institution across the Kyrgyz Republic. Our programmes have helped local councils and parliament in the country to interact more with the people they serve and represent. Most recently, as part of the EU media dialogue programme, WFD Kyrgyzstan ran an anti-hate speech campaign in the run up to the 2021 elections.
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
WFD has been working and contributing towards strengthening democracy in Nigeria, since 2012. From promoting inclusive, open, and transparent governance, to championing gender and human rights, and promoting the participation of youth, women, and persons with disabilities’ (PWDs) participation in elections, as well as supporting the legislature to review and pass laws protecting women and girls against violence. Partnerships at the national and state level – for example with the National Assembly of Nigeria; State Houses of Assembly; Election Management Bodies (EMBs), political parties; and youth, women, and PWDs-focused organisations – have enhanced our democracy strengthening work.
26 November 2021