Guide / Training Material

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

CWP gender-sensitising parliaments

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s Gender Sensitising Parliamentary Guidelines: A Seven-Step Field Guide (‘Field Guide’) provides a blueprint for Commonwealth parliaments interested in undertaking a Gender Sensitive Parliament (GSP) review...

Municipal elections in Canada: A guide for women candidates (FCM)

Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Municipal elections in Canada: A guide for women candidates

In order to promote women’s role in municipal politics, FCM has created a Standing Committee on Increasing Women’s Participation in Municipal Government. One of the tools this Committee has created to encourage and support more women in municipal...

Toward parity: Inventory of strategies (FCM)

Monday, August 08, 2022

Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Toward parity: Inventory of strategies

A compendium of ideas to reach gender parity in municipal politics How can we begin to overcome the countless obstacles that are preventing women from fully participating in municipal politics? The suggestions in this Inventory were compiled...

Building your audience through social media (Municipal Campaign School)

Thursday, August 04, 2022

Municipal Campaign School

Building your audience through social media

An interview featuring Kate (Oxford) talking with Alyssa Humphrey from the Social Factory. About Alyssa | Alyssa is a brand developer and digital media marketer located in Woodstock, Ontario with nine years of professional social media management,...

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Monday, July 25, 2022

German Marshall Fund of the United States

Breaking barriers to women’s participation in politics in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine

This paper examines the barriers that still inhibit women’s political participation in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine. It explains the main roots of women’s underrepresentation, first looking at public attitudes in the three countries regarding the...

Thursday, July 21, 2022

Inclusion and gender equality in post-coup Myanmar

International IDEA

This brief explores inclusion strategies for constitutional and democratic reform in the post-coup context of Myanmar. It highlights the challenges to gender equality and inclusion in Myanmar, including the role and demands of the pro-democracy...

Best practices: Promoting gender balanced appointments (RepresentWomen)

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Best practices: Promoting gender balanced appointments

WomenRepresent

To inform our own programming on advancing gender-balanced appointments and to establish a scalable, replicable, transformative model for advancing gender-balanced appointments, RepresentWomen gathered learnings from five similar initiatives around...

Monday, July 11, 2022

Substantive equality and women’s representation in public institutions

International IDEA

This brief explores how constitutional advocates for women’s equality in Myanmar can advance women’s representation and meaningful participation in public decision-making and institutions. It looks at how different countries have aimed to do this...

RepresentWomen Solutions Summit: Take action resource guide

Wednesday, June 22, 2022

RepresentWomen Solutions Summit: Take action resource guide

RepresentWomen

For its inaugural Solutions Summit, RepresentWomen gathered experts in election administration, voting rights, and democracy reform to discuss the viable, scalable, and transformative initiatives that will strengthen our democracy. Over the course...

The role of Parliament in achieving gender equality - INTER PARES

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

The role of Parliament in achieving gender equality

This course, written by Dr Sonia Palmieri, explores why and how to build gender sensitive parliaments. Rich in case studies, it sketches the international framework for action and outlines opportunities for shaping contextually-appropriate...

Addressing online misogyny and gendered disinformation: A how-to guide - NDI

Thursday, March 17, 2022

The National Democratic Institute

Addressing online misogyny and gendered disinformation: A how-to guide

The internet is a tool that can simplify and encourage democratic engagement, but the rise of online disinformation challenges even the world’s most robust democracies. While the most recognizable disinformation campaigns are related to national...

Gender-sensitive scrutiny: A guide to more effective law-making and oversight

Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Gender-sensitive scrutiny: A guide to more effective law-making and oversight

Parliaments have a key role in ensuring not only that everyone is properly represented in decision-making, but also that legislation and government actions take account of the needs and experiences of women and men on an equal basis. However, the...

Promoting women's political participation: from quotas to parity - UNW

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Promoting women's political participation: From quotas to parity

UN Women

This guide is designed to increase the understanding of the legal obligations of countries in the West and Central Africa (WCA) region to achieve gender equality in decision-making. It focuses on strengthening efforts to improve the legal framework...

A quick guide to gender-sensitive scrutiny in Malaysia - INTER PARES

Friday, February 18, 2022

A quick guide to gender-sensitive scrutiny in Malaysia

This guide is designed to help Members and staff of the Parliament of Malaysia undertake gender-sensitive scrutiny of laws, budgets, and policies. Click here to download the guide published by INTER PARES.

A quick guide to gender-sensitive scrutiny in Bhutan - credits: INTER PARES

Thursday, February 17, 2022

A quick guide to gender-sensitive scrutiny in Bhutan

This guide is designed to help Members and staff of the Parliament of Bhutan undertake gender-sensitive scrutiny of laws, budgets, and policies. Click here to download the guide published by INTER PARES.

Tuesday, February 08, 2022

Training: LeadHerShip

Chwarae Tag

Despite progress, women continue to be under-represented in positions of power and leadership in Government, Business, and public life. This picture is even worse for BAME women, LGBTQ+ women, disabled women, and women who experience additional...

Women in Leadership Training Manual. Credits: KAS

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Women in leadership training manual (Kenya)

KAS

KAS consolidated a training manual that would be used to conduct a long-term tailored engagement on selected aspiring women politicians on effective campaign strategies leading up to elections. The training manual thus seeks to strengthen the...

Women’s political participation and representation - Training Manual - registry of political parties

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Registry of Political Parties

Women’s political participation and representation - Training Manual

This Handbook has been developed as publication by register of Political Parties with support from the Papua New Guinea Election Commission and the United Nations Development Programme in Papua New Guinea. This is part of UN Women Make the Change...