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Party Regulation
Parties are regulated both internally and externally, sometimes with rules and regulations that significantly influence the role of women in political parties. External regulations affecting women include constitutional and legislative gender quotas and other candidate selection mechanisms. You will find more information about party regulation here.
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Enhancing Women’s Political Participation: A Policy Note for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
This Policy Note presents a set of pragmatic recommendations that will enable policy makers to enhance women’s political participation in the region. These measures are the product of six national roundtable discussions organized in 2008 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Turkey and Ukraine as well as a regional conference in Turkey in December 2008. This Policy Note also presents the current status of, and opportunities for women’s participation in leadership and decision-making processes in the region. Based on the evidence and regional data collected and analysed, this Policy Note is for parliamentarians, government officials, legislators, political party members, civil society organizations working on enhancing women’s political participation and media with the recommended policy and action options in the following three areas:
1) Legal and institutional frameworks to promote women’s political participation;
2) Mechanisms and strategies to promote women’s political participation; and
3) Partnerships for women’s political participation: civil society organizations and the media.
Consolidated Response on the Prevention of Family Voting
This consolidated response includes descriptions of family and proxy voting and provides recommendations on how to eliminate family voting through holding trainings and public awareness campaigns, strengthening legislative frameworks, and sensitizing election commissioners and observers on issues faced by women.
Consolidated Response on Best Practices Used by Political Parties to Promote Women in Politics
This consolidated response highlights strategies and policies that may be used in addition to gender quotas by political parties to increase the numbers of women in politics. The strategies described in this response include establishing women’s sections in political parties, providing women candidates with training and financial assistance to hold effective campaigns, creating a forum for women to lobby and discuss policy, and offering political parties incentives for promoting women in politics.
Assessing Women’s Political Party Programs: Best Practices and Recommendations
The assessment is designed to identify the specific elements and approaches which were most effective in encouraging women’s participation and leadership in political parties. Although drawn from NDI programs, the information gathered in this assessment is intended to be used by both individuals and organizations as a road map to help facilitate women’s political leadership worldwide.
Consolidated response on how to promote a gender equality policy within a political party
This consolidated response analyses what a gender equality policy means and the key steps as well as concrete measures for developing a political party gender equality policy.
Money in Politics: A Study of Party Financing Practices in 22 Countries
This report presents the findings of the African Political Party Finance Initiative, which gathered information on party financing in twenty-two countries in Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Asia. The purpose of this report is to determine if there are common themes about the sources, use, and management of funds related to securing elected office. It discusses public financing of political parties, the importance of party reform, and the necessity of extending party financing laws beyond fundraising regulations.
