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Around the world, WFD is helping to make countries’ political systems more accountable. In an accountable political system, citizens can hold people with power responsible for their decisions, usually via parliament and civil society.
Operating directly in more than 30 countries and territories across the world, we are helping to make political systems fairer, more inclusive, and more accountable. We do this by working with parliaments, political parties, organisations responsible for elections, and civil society.
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.
Having carefully assessed the Serbian political and economic context, we decided to focus our programming on circular and youth migrations, youth political engagement, and work with political parties and organisations.
Between 2015-2018, WFD supported increased oversight of public money through the establishment of the first ever Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (NARS). Since, 2019 WFD Serbia has focused on the issues of youth emigration, youth political education, and strengthening inner party democracy in Serbia. With the pandemic outbreak in 2020, we centred our focus around the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (NARS). With WFD’s assistance, the first regional Parliamentary Emergency Subcommittee for Response to COVID-19 was established.
Between 2015-2018, WFD supported increased oversight of public money through the establishment of the first ever Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) in the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (NARS). Since, 2019 WFD Serbia has focused on the issues of youth emigration, youth political education, and strengthening inner party democracy in Serbia. With the pandemic outbreak in 2020, we centred our focus around the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia (NARS). With WFD’s assistance, the first regional Parliamentary Emergency Subcommittee for Response to COVID-19 was established.
On 24 August 2017, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in partnership with Sierra Leone Union on Disability Issues (SLUDI), launched a new National Agenda for the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the electoral and political process ahead of Sierra Leone’s 2018 elections.
Corruption is detrimental to the successful functioning of democratic political systems, economic development, and the provision of public services in society. To overcome corruption, countries in transition increasingly count on the role of an Anti-Corruption Commission or Agency (ACA). In this blog, Franklin De Vrieze and Luka Glusac discuss the role of the parliament of Ukraine and the country’s ACA in combating high-profile corruption.
The past week has been an emotional, as well as a political, roller-coaster across the UK, including inside WFD. On both sides of the debate there has been surprise, concern, anger, and optimism at some point since the voting started on Thursday. There has been an outpouring of perceptive analysis about the result, much of it very relevant to the challenges that WFD tries to help our partners to address, including how important it is for political leaders to listen to all parts of society, and how to manage political campaigns responsibly.
Campaign finance law is a controversial policy area in Moldova, Indonesia and Nigeria. Legislative changes related to the electoral process are usually taking place in a very tense and challenging political environment and tend to accommodate interests of dominant political parties. Therefore, there is always a risk of law making become politicised, which leaves the main legislative challenges unaddressed.
Maldives, with a significant young population, grapples with low youth representation in politics. Along with local experts, WFD in Maldives aims to support youth voices and participation and identify the concerns of young people that demand attention from lawmakers.
Maldives |
Three areas are important for the political process and public discourse around elections: election campaigns; electoral observation; and the information landscape.
Democracy and anti-corruption are complementary, and that we can ‘do anti-corruption democratically’ in poor and rich countries in ways that are politically informed.
Briefing |
Despite young people (0-34 years) comprising 75% of Kenya’s population, they represent just 6.5% of MPs in parliament. So, what is blocking their entry? The key hurdles include socioeconomic status, lack of support from political parties, and limited democratic culture during nominations.
Kenya |
Political voices and coalitions can help address environmental problems by raising citizens’ concerns and holding governments accountable. To do so, political voices need to be more inclusive and aware on climate change. Development cooperation can help by enhancing public awareness, enabling capacity of the media and civil society to cover climate change, and building multi-stakeholder coalitions to support policy development and implementation.
We are delighted to welcome environmental democracy experts from across the world and representing civil society, law, politics and academia.