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In North Macedonia, WFD is working with persons with disabilities (PWDs), a marginalised and underrepresented group in society, to ensure their needs are at the top of the policy agenda.
Environmental civil society organisations in Albania often face difficulties in accessing decision-makers and being included in consultation processes. WFD is helping to change that.
WFD seeks a consultancy for Dynamics Business Central training, configuration, and Jet Reports development.
From the war in Ukraine to climate change - democracy is facing unprecedented challenges. Find out more about our impact over the last year and why our work to strengthen democracy has never been more urgent.
On June 8 1982, US President Ronald Reagan addressed UK MPs in the Palace of Westminster, proposing the creation of democracy assistance organisations. On the 40th anniversary of that speech, our Chair Richard Graham MP reflects on what "today's equivalent of Reagan's call to democratic arms" should look like and argues for a "renewed call to action to support democracy."
In partnership with GIZ Ukraine, WFD helped establish a Financial and Economic Analysis Office (FEAO) in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (parliament) in 2015, in order to provide the parliament with accessible economic and financial information and help it monitor public spending.
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Parliamentary and legislative indicators for post-legislative scrutiny
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WFD and the Ministry of Information and Communication in Sierra Leone supported the Parliament in holding its first virtual State opening in May 2020.
In 2019, Alexis Mugisha, Commissioner General of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and Secretary General of the Eastern Africa Greens Federation (EAGF), participated in the Green Talent Accelerator programme. Alexis planned to stand as a candidate in the Rwandan Senate elections in September 2019, and his objectives in the programme mainly focused on his preparation for this.
We have developed our Pandemic Democracy Tracker to monitor the quality of democratic responses to COVID-19 across 30-plus countries in which we work. The tracker captures information about each democracy’s response.
Spiraling debt can undermine public services, marginalise the vulnerable, and compromise the future of democracy. This blog delves into the critical importance of addressing public debt in a democratic way.
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.
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With WFD’s support, in 2024, the Election Commission of Sri Lanka formed a collaborative, multi-stakeholder taskforce to enforce the Regulation of Election Expenditure Act (REEA), Sri Lanka’s first ever campaign finance law. WFD also supported country's first online monitoring tool to track campaign expenditure.