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There are challenges for legislatures to make use of citizens’ assemblies successfully, but if these key lessons from CAUK are heeded, they could become a regular fixture of parliamentary public engagement.
On 25 November 2020, the Arab League, and a group of cross-party MPs from the UK and Arab region, gathered together to stand united in reaffirming their commitment to tackling violence against women and girls and to making our societies safer, more inclusive and equitable. They called for women’s rights to be prioritised through adopting a legally binding international convention across the Arab region to tackle gender-based violence.
On 6-7 August, political party and community leaders from Ghana and 14 Commonwealth countries met in Ghana to discuss ways to tackle the under-representation of women in leadership positions.
The high and often growing costs that individuals bear in seeking and maintaining political office are excluding people from politics, fuelling corruption, and fundamentally reshaping the way in which citizens and their elected representatives interact.
As election day in Indonesia comes to an end, will the appointment of over 20,000 new legislators make its parliament more open and transparent?
Since August 2020, WFD in partnership with Demo Finland have been working to promote the inclusion of persons with disabilities within Kenyan political parties through the Kenya Inclusive Political Parties (KIPP) programme. This is an update, by the programme's coordinator, of what has been achieved so far and what next should be done.
Kenya |
Reflecting on a Open Government Partnership Parliamentary Day event in December 2021, Julia Keutgen outlines parliaments' role in restricting and defending civic space and argues that whilst coalitions for change between civil society and parliament require enormous effort, they are vital for defending civic space.
Despite young people constituting about 70% of the Nigerian population, they still face exclusion from governance in the West Africa country. To address this, WFD supported the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) in holding an emergency national strategy retreat on rethinking youth development.
Nigeria |
WFD seeks an external expert on team leadership and facilitation to design and deliver modules on managing teams and building a team culture. Key topics include team planning, empowering individuals, defining roles, leading and motivating, handling difficult conversations, feedback and performance reviews, effective facilitation, and personal wellbeing.
Lessons are learned from every election, and action can be taken to improve them ahead of the next vote. This article sets out some of the ways we will be supporting electoral integrity after the 2024 "year of elections".
Connecting parliaments: Harnessing digital dividends to increase transparency and citizen engagement
Parliamentary digital transformation is a relatively underfunded area of work, but a vitally important one in achieving the very common overarching goals of open, accountable, inclusive and participative government. Improvements in how parliamentary digital capacity building can be done better are possible with better strategy, funding and cooperation, and when parliaments are enthusiastic and willing to take the opportunities offered to them to improve themselves.
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Running for election costs money. But how much? Where do aspirants find the resources required? How do these costs shape who can run competitively? Here are five key things we have learned so far from elections in DRC, Kuwait, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Thailand.
To achieve the reality of programmes that respond to changing needs commitment is needed from practitioners and donors alike to change their practices. WFD, DAI Europe and the range of practitioners participating in the roundtable are committed to explaining why working in this difficult political space provides real value to development, but also why it needs to be flexible and adaptable to succeed.
‘Successfully communicating the attributes, values and outputs that gain for the UK both attractiveness and respect in the eyes of people abroad will be vital in maintaining the UK in positions of influence’ concluded a 2014 parliamentary report. However, the debate about how seriously we should take the notion of soft power isn’t settled.
What does it take to organise a successful citizens’ assembly on climate change?