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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 | 22 April 2020
Westminster Foundation for Democracy is supporting democratic stability in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in the Muslim Mindanao (BARMM or the Bangsamoro). The Bangsamoro is an autonomous region in the Southern Philippines and the centrepiece of a long-running peace process in which the UK Government played an important support role.
03 December 2021
How has the implementation of the nation’s COVID-19 response impacted the lives and livelihoods of the more vulnerable people in The Gambia, specifically persons with disabilities (PWDs) and women? Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in partnership with the British High Commission (BHC) in The Gambia organised a series of national dialogues and commissioned a report to present an account of the participants during the national dialogues.
The Gambia | 14 December 2020
This guide is designed to provide democracy practitioners and other interested readers with an explanation of what civic space is, and what attempts to close civic space look like in practice; An overview of data sources that can be used to measure changes in civic space; An explanation of some of the underlying risks; Practical action points for incorporating the issue of civic space into projects; and more.
Guide | 02 March 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
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
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.
26 November 2021
WFD established the Global Election Support Centre (GESC) to be able to provide the needed expertise to Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) staff and to develop new integrated approaches to support and safeguard electoral integrity throughout the electoral cycle.
14 December 2021
In 2020, the world came up against the COVID-19 pandemic which caused serious health and national crises. Managing the pandemic and its consequences became the priority issue for most governments across the globe. The majority of countries implemented temporary measures such as quarantine that limited certain civic rights. In particular, the freedom of movement and assembly were directly affected by governments’ responses to the pandemic.
Albania | Study | 27 April 2021
From 2016 Westminster Foundation for Democracy has been supporting the National Assembly of Laos and the newly established People’s Provincial Assemblies, through a programme funded by the UK embassy in Vientiane. Working with the Justice Committee to improve their representative function by engaging with citizens is a core element of the programme. The Justice Committee, with WFD support, is establishing a more effective system to manage responses to over 300 public petitions received each year.
10 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
Corruption has a negative effect on development, economic growth, and democracy. Independent Anti-Corruption Agencies (ACAs) are often recommended as the tool to curb corruption. However, the creation of such agencies is not a panacea to the scourge of corruption. In some instances, ACAs have been a disappointment and their effectiveness has been questioned. Their efficiency depends on political will to allocate authority, powers, and resources.
Indonesia | Report | 28 January 2021
In 2017, Westminster Foundation for Democracy launched a two-year programme to support research and information management in the Parliament of Botswana and improve methods to engage citizens with the parliament’s work. Working with parliamentary staff from the Research and Library, Hansard, Public Relations, and ICT departments as well as those who support committees, the programme aimed to foster improved, evidence-based policymaking and increase citizen participation in legislation and policymaking. The programme closed in 2019.
26 November 2021
Training workshops on preventing and combating the use of hate speech for youth and civic activists took place in all regions of Kyrgyzstan from 6th – 23rd September 2021. Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD), jointly with the Institute of Civic Development held these events in the run up to the country’s Parliamentary elections within the framework of the Media Dialogue project funded by the European Union.
Kyrgyzstan | 08 October 2021