INSPIRING CHANGE: WOMEN’S POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
every continent. Some examples of recent successes and best practices worldwide include:
Algeria: UNDP sponsored a parliamentary forum on effective and sustainable participation of women in elected assemblies in December 2013, which facilitated the launch of an Algerian action plan for women MPs. Enabling mechanisms and legal frameworks were identified to promote a meaningful and sustainable participation of women in decision-making processes. A network of women Parliamentarians in the Arab region was also consolidated and empowered to promote such vision at regional and national levels. Argentina: we helped develop
a toolkit for legislators on gender mainstreaming.
Bosnia and Herzegovina: we
assisted members of the Committee for Gender Equality to come to an in-depth awareness of relevant international obligations and national frameworks for the promotion of women’s political participation. Iraq: we provided training to the
Women’s Committee within the Iraqi Council of Representatives on law- drafting and legal reviews through a gender lens. We also worked with the Women’s Committee on a Bill to establish a High Commission on Gender equality. Jordan: we supported the
finalization of a Gender Strategy for the Independent Electoral Commission. We are also working with political parties to develop a common Gender Strategy to ensure the parties are actively creating opportunities and space for women
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to participate and get nominated to Executive positions and for elections. A political party legal framework review (including internal regulations of parties) was conducted and resulted in a list of interventions to ensure active women political participation including through the establishment of a women caucus to conduct mentorship programmes and advocacy for active women participation. Kosovo: we provided support to
the Gender Equality Committee in drafting the new designs, methods and techniques for monitoring of the law implementation in Kosovo. Socially sensitive laws, such as the Law on Gender Equality, were monitored with a new strategy which implied usage of online self- administered questionnaires for respondents and randomly sampled
institutions to be visited by MPs. This approach has shown to be more time and cost effective and has enabled the Committees to reach in-depth information and data from a broader number of institutions. Libya: we facilitated intensive
workshops for 180 women candidates who were trained in media skills and electoral campaign management in advance of the General National Congress elections; eight of these women are currently elected members to the National Congress. Lebanon: we funded a gender
legal review of all current Lebanese legislation that produced a list of new laws to be drafted or current laws to be amended for the promotion of gender equality. Tunisia: we supported Tunisian Parliamentarians’ knowledge
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