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Political Parties
In a representative democracy, political parties are vitally important. Political parties function as a link between state institutions and local grassroots organizations. It is political parties that aggregate interests, present political alternatives and nominate candidates. In all such matters, the political parties play an essential role for the advancement of women and the promotion of equality, as they function as the gatekeepers of candidate selection and political power. In this section, you will find information on the role of political parties in promoting women.
Sub-topics:
- Candidate Selection
- Internal Organization
- Outreach
- Parties in Parliament
- Party Funding
- Party Regulation
- Policy and Platform Development
- Political Parties (general)
- Women’s Party Sections
From the Library
Online Courses on Decentralization and Governance
The UNPAN Online Training Centre delivers courses on various topics in public administration. The main objective of the UNPAN Training Centre is to increase the opportunities for government officials from all over the world to access training materials on e-government.
UNPAN online training courses are available to anyone with Internet access and are provided free of charge. UNPAN on-line training courses are available in English, French, Ukrainian, Russian and Arabic.
For further information concerning these courses, including information about course availability, registration, enrolment and pre-requisites please click on the URL below.
E-Learning Course: Getting to the Gate
Equal Voices present 'Getting to the Gate', our online campaign school for women interested in getting into politics. This course is free of charge; however, all users must register to access the course.
This online course aims to increase the number of elected women by providing practical tools for women of all ages, backgrounds and walks of life interested in running for public office.
UNESCO & IGNOU - Gender Training Kit
This gender training kit brings you resources on gender and development drawn from the World Wide Web and audio/video/print materials. There are seven gender training modules in the kit. They are designed in self-instructional format and include lessons, self assessment and tests for evaluation. The content areas include:
Module 1: Dimensions of Empowerment and Gender Training
Module 2: Gender-sensitive Policies, Interventions and Institutions
Module 3: Media, Methods and Approaches in Gender Training
Module 4: Education and Research
Module 5: Leadership
Module 6: Governance
Module 7: Entrepreneurship
To find out details about the training kit please visit the URL below.
BRIDGE Civic Education Development Project
The BRIDGE Civic Education Development Project (CEDP) is a professional development project to build capacity in people working in areas of democracy and governance.
This project developed from the concept of establishing a civics and governance component within the umbrella of BRIDGE. BRIDGE stands for Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections and the CEDP aims to expand the current BRIDGE elections (E) curriculum to include the Democracy and Governance (D and G) of BRIDGE.
To find out details about the program please click on the URL below.
Gender Training Wiki
The UN INSTRAW Gender Training Wiki is intended to provide a centralized resource centre for gender trainers, academics, gender mainstreaming, knowledge management & development experts and practitioners , as well as individuals and organizations in general looking for gender training opportunities and resources and funding for their activities.
UN INSTRAW staff regularly updates the information in the Gender Training Wiki. However, the Wiki is a participatory resource centre and the intention is that this site will be self sustaining and the community of registered users will upload and comment on content as well as benefiting from content uploaded by others.
eLearning Course on Effective Electoral Assistance
The European Commission (EC), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) are pleased to announce the arrival of the pioneer eLearning Course on Effective Electoral Assistance. The Course has been developed within the Train4Dev initiative and in collaboration with International Organization for Migration (IOM), Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Organization for American States (OAS) and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affiars.
The overarching objective of the eLearning Course on Effective Electoral Assistance is to make the electoral assistance community to deliver more effective assistance in line with the main principles informing the Paris Declaration (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) regards ownership, alignment, harmonization, results and accountability. Development of the capacities of electoral assistance providers (multilateral and bilateral agencies and international organizations) as well those receiving assistance (national electoral management bodies and other electoral stakeholders) is vital in improving assistance effectiveness.
The eLearning Course is developed on the basis of the face-to-face Joint EC-UNDP-IDEA Joint Training on Effective Electoral Assistance. The first training of this type was organized in September 2006 in Brussels and since then the training has developed tremendously in terms of the audience, the experts contributing and the curriculum.
To find further details please visit E-Learning Portal.
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.
- Committees
- Engendering Legislation/Budgets
- Europe
- Institution Building
- National Legislature/Parliament
- Parliamentary Caucuses
- Parliaments & Representatives
- Parties in Parliament
- Party Regulation
- Policy and Platform Development
- Political Parties
- Post-conflict and Transitional Participation
- Slovakia
- Guide / Training Material
Women in Politics 2010 (Poster)
This poster-sized map is a "snapshot" of the presence of women in executive and legislative branches of government as of January 2010. The poster provides information on the percentage of women in ministerial ranks, women in parliaments and women in the highest decision-making bodies, as well as information on the ministerial portfolios held by women throughout the world.
Nominating for Change: Strengthening Women's Position in Political Parties
This manual was prepared as a Training of Trainers tool to prepare participants to deliver workshops that help increase women’s skills to get themselves nominated by their political parties. The manual is organized into training sessions, with some sessions focusing on general training skills, while others are topic specific.
The new wave of sexism against today's women leaders
There are still men, in this day and age, who believe that women are less competent than men and that men are superior to women. This new wave of refined sexism especially in today’s politics does not typically take the form of a 1960 blatant sexism that is deliberate, direct and visible, but comes in more subtle and covert ways. This shows that it is not only critical to enhance women’s access to opportunities and positions, but it is extremely important that solidarity mechanisms are put in place to support women in leaderships when they come under unjust attacks.
