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The present document identifies the role of gender-specific legislation for achieving gender equality and the potential contribution of post-legislative scrutiny for de facto gender equality. It focuses on important elements of a ‘good’ post-legislative scrutiny of gender-specific legislation and concludes with learning points for Parliamentary Committees.
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This research provides a comparative analysis of civic education across Europe, focusing on three specific case studies - from Denmark, France, and Croatia. It concludes with recommendations for potentially reforming civic education in North Macedonia.
North Macedonia | Other |
Situations of conflict and insecurity have implications for the priorities of political parties and MPs. While war causes inevitable shifts of priorities towards security and defence, long-term transformative initiatives may lose salience. This research sought to determine, among other things, the extent to which the priorities of Ukrainian MPs have changed, including with regard to gender equality and inclusion.
Ukraine | Study |
With half of the biggest election year ever to come, what can we learn from South Africa and India's 2024 elections? When leaders are facing electoral warnings for broken promises and strongman politics, strong and independent electoral institutions can make all the difference.
WFD and the UK Political Studies Association (PSA) Specialist Group Autocracy and Regime Change (ARC) are calling for submissions for a series of editor-reviewed policy briefs examining the authoritarian eco-system.
Spending two days with passionate, intelligent people is incredibly cathartic. That’s especially true when those people have come together to tackle one of the world’s most intractable problems – gender inequality in politics.
The 2017 - 2018 Annual Report and Accounts were laid before Parliament on 19 July 2018
Alex Thier reflects on the importance of democratic governance for sustainable development following the High Level Political Forum in New York.
WFD has been active in Tunisia since 2011. Our work focused on supporting the Tunisian legislature on constitutional drafting and strengthening the parliament’s oversight, legislative and representative roles. We also worked with Tunisian political parties to promote the leadership of women and youth, and supported civil society to inform and influence policy making.
This endline evaluation assesses phase I and phase II of the KIPP programme. The evaluation documents the changes attributable to the actions of the KIPP programme towards achieving participation and representation of persons with disabilities (PWDs) within Kenyan political parties.
Kenya | Report |
While we need virtual parliaments, we do not need them at all costs.
The analysis conducted by WFD explores the current model of parliamentary budget oversight in Montenegro.
On 14th November 2019, the young people of East Africa elected Ashura Michael, a deaf youth activist from Kenya, as one of four Speakers of their Youth Parliament.
The process of competitive politics can undermine the integrity and effectiveness of individual MPs and parliament as a whole. This study explores the electoral model in Sierra Leone and investigates the cost of politics and the approaches that are adopted to maintain positions of power, considering this financial burden.
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As each and every day takes us closer to the 2030 goal of achieving the sustainable development goals, we need policies that can close the inequality gap to be backed up by allocating adequate resources in the budget towards actualising them. Gender-responsive budgeting is part of the way forward.