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The participation of women in the electoral process is key for democracy. The provision of voter education can be an important tool for encouraging women to vote in elections and to assist them in making informed decisions about their vote.

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Consolidated Response on Women’s Political Participation in Traditional and Conservative Societies

This consolidated response highlights types of positive action measures, advocacy campaigns, women’s movements, and educational opportunities that help women in traditional and conservative societies to overcome some of the barriers that they face in politics and public life.

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Consolidated Response on Working with Women Candidates and Women Voters During Elections

This consolidated response highlights tools used to empower women candidates, such as providing training, working with political parties, using affirmative action measures,and holding outreach campaigns. The consolidate response also provides several recommendations on how to reach out to women voters before and during elections, proactively engage women in voter registration, and hold voter education campaigns targeting both women and men.

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The League of Kenya Women Voters

The League of Kenya Women Voters (LKWV) is a non-partisan political women's membership organization that was founded by a voluntary group of like-minded Kenyan women to advance the rights of women in elective political leadership and other positions of decision-making.

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Gender and Citizenship

Citizenship and gender are integral to development theory and practice. This report attempts to illustrate how reframing citizenship from a gender perspective can introduce broader rights and political participation as development goals. It also highlights how understanding the ways in which different groups define and experience citizenship can enable development actors to more effectively increase political participation.

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Taking Gender Equality Seriously: Making Progess, Meeting New Challenges

This report illustrates the progress and new challenges the UNDP is facing in its day-to-day work on gender mainstreaming. It focuses particularly on the following advocacy areas: democratic governance, including parliamentary development, elections and quotas; crisis prevention and recovery; HIV/AIDS; and energy management.

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Enhancing Women's Participation in Electoral Processes in Post-conflict Countries: Experiences from Mozambique

This paper examines the case of women's participation in electoral processes in Mozambique. It investigates gender-sensitive legislation, voter registration and education, political parties, and training of women candidates.

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Enhancing the Role of Women: UNDP Yemen Electoral Support Programme

This presentation focuses on the efforts of the UNDP Yemen Electoral Support Programme to enhance women's political participation in Yemen. It outlines the programme's strategic areas of support, with a particular focus on voter education. It was presented at the Global Practice Meeting on Electoral Systems and Processes in Manila, Philippines in October 2004.

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Elaborating the Gender Dimension of Democratic Governance

This training guide focuses on the human rights-based approach to development cooperation as a framework for women's empowerment and gender equality. It emphasizes the need for development cooperation to empower women and to ensure gender equality in areas relating to parliament, electoral systems, justice systems, e-governance, information and communication technologies, local governments and public administration.

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