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One of the most common fears people express about artificial intelligence (AI) is that its development will lead to less human control over our lives. We have long had an answer to threats to our autonomy as individuals and societies – democracy. Those who serve democratic processes have a special responsibility to shape a democratic future in which to the greatest extent possible AI benefits, rather than harms, our societies.
Parliaments are key institutions whose functions such as debating, legislating, scrutiny, and oversight strengthen democracy. WFD has been helping the Laos National Assembly and Provincial People’s Assemblies (PPAs) to perform core functions of a legislature through providing support in three key areas.
Laos |
On 6 November, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, endorsed a recommendation by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) that “Parliaments should use updated Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Benchmarks on Democratic Legislatures as a tool to ensure their contribution to Sustainable Development Goal 16 (on inclusive and accountable governance)”.
Youth leaders' training programme works to help save forest under threat.
New research from Westminster Foundation for Democracy sheds light on women’s motivations for getting into formal politics: many women emphasise a desire to make a positive difference to the world. What is more, their decisions to embark on a career in politics are also shaped by exposure to political issues, as well as their experiences. Armed with this knowledge, political parties and policymakers need to provide support in five key areas to ensure that more women are able to choose the path of political leadership.
On July 14th, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) released its new brief, entitled “The Role of Parliament in Public Debt Management Weathering the COVID-19 Crisis and Beyond”. Here are five compelling arguments, discussed in the brief, for parliamentary involvement in public debt management.
In the last nine months Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) Nigeria – in partnership with the Nigerian National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) – focused on modalities for inclusive and effective participation of underrepresented groups in political parties. Through a project titled Political Party Watch (PPW), the partnership built on an earlier study conducted by WFD in 2021. The study found there was a need to increase the level of transparency, accountability, and inclusion of underrepresented groups to participate effectively into political parties’ procedures and operations.
Nigeria |
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and Kaleidoscope Trust (KT) are pleased to announce the launch of the second phase of the Global Equality Project (GEP II) – a joint programme working to strengthen the inclusion of people who have been structurally excluded from democratic processes, particularly women, girls and LGBT+ people.
Civil society organisations (CSOs) are a channel through which citizens can engage with the government constructively to make sure adequate services are provided, helping build more inclusive and accountable democracies. Their role is especially important during the pandemic, as civic freedoms are curtailed and the usual channels of engagement with the government are unavailable.
Albania |
The most recent study of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy published on the International Youth Day 2021 shows the attitudes and perspectives of young people in North Macedonia. The study reveals that young people who are part of forms of youth organising are more content with their place in society, compared to their peers who are not (49,5% compared to 28,2%). One fifth of young people regularly take action to solve social problems (22,3%) and one third of them (29,2%) succeed in these efforts and solve the problems.
North Macedonia | Study |
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in Serbia and the Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI) conducted a research analysis on budgetary allocations for youth and youth organisations at the local level in Serbia. The findings from this research also include specific data on how youth organisations function and what their cooperation with local level institutions looks like.
Serbia | Study |
This policy document is a collaborative advocacy initiative of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and ENGENDER Consultancy. The report delves into each of the measures presented in the Budget under three distinct themes — inclusive and sustainable economic growth, institutional reforms, and good governance, each of which is framed to restore confidence and combat inequality through social justice.
Malaysia | Report |
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။
For a decade, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) supported the Parliament of Ghana as it worked to become a stronger, more inclusive and accountable institution. WFD Ghana nurtured the next generation of political leaders – both young men and young women – to better equip them to break from participating in decision-making.
In October 2020, WFD marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Ghana. Like everywhere, the task of strengthening democracy in the country is ongoing. WFD’s Ghanaian partners – including the Speaker, Members, Secretary General and staff of the Parliament of Ghana and civil society organisations – continue this important work.
In addition to the programme’s achievements detailed below, the rich legacy of WFD’s work in Ghana includes a wealth of local knowledge and relationships which WFD retains within our regional African programmes and those in the rest of the world.
In October 2020, WFD marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Ghana. Like everywhere, the task of strengthening democracy in the country is ongoing. WFD’s Ghanaian partners – including the Speaker, Members, Secretary General and staff of the Parliament of Ghana and civil society organisations – continue this important work.
In addition to the programme’s achievements detailed below, the rich legacy of WFD’s work in Ghana includes a wealth of local knowledge and relationships which WFD retains within our regional African programmes and those in the rest of the world.
How governments spend taxpayers’ money is too important to be left unchecked. Elected representatives, especially at a time of great pressure on state budgets, must be empowered to scrutinise and control spending decisions. To help them do this, Westminster Foundation for Democracy has produced a series of policy briefs on parliaments and managing public money.
Briefing |