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Political Participation
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While the global percentage of parliamentary seats held by women reached a historic high of eighteen percent in 2008, the political representation of women in both the upper and lower levels of governments is still significantly lower than that of men in most nations and regions of the world. Eighteen percent representation is also far from reaching the thirty percent considered to be the minimum percentage necessary to ensure a critical mass of women who can influence decision making processes and political agendas. Despite global, national and local initiatives and strategies, resistance still persists against the advancements of women in positions of power and decision making and in fields traditionally dominated by men.
Aims and Objectives
UN-INSTRAW’s Political Participation Programme aims to increase women’s participation and representation in public spaces and systems of political representation in order to strengthen democracies ensure that women can exercise and enjoy their rights and eradicate gender discrimination. In order to achieve this goal, UN-INSTRAW conducts action-oriented research, implements strategies to promote awareness-raising among major stakeholders on the importance of women’s participation in local decision-making, initiates policy dialogues and aims to build local institutional capacities for gender sensitive public policy formulation. Click here to read more about GPP’ conceptual framework.
- Applied research on the status of women’s political participation and governance processes from a gender perspective.
- Capacity building activities and workshops with parliamentarians, members of political parties and local press on issues related to women’s political participation.
- Development of indicators on regional political participation as a collaborative partner in the Observatory on Gender Parity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Contribute to the visibility of women elected to local posts in Latin America and the Caribbean and to the positioning of their agenda, particularly on the issue of political harassment.
- Design strategies, tools and capacity-building modalities and interactive platforms such as the techno-political tool OLYMPIA to promote transformation of thought, action and communication using new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on electoral systems from a gender perspective.
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