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Campaign Management Trainings for Women Politicians
Gender equality and women`s empowerment are not only basic human rights but also crucial for achieving inclusive, sustainable and equitable development. Women`s participation is central to these goals, and political parties are arguably one of the most important institutions for fostering such participation.
New Strength for the STEP Democracy Programme
STEP Democracy is delighted to introduce our new partner organization Badeidha Moe Civil Society Organization (BDM).
STEP Democracy အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ ခြန္အားသစ္
STEP Democracy အစီအစဥ္၏ မိတ္ဖက္အရပ္ဖက္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအသစ္ျဖစ္ေသာ ပေဒသာမိုး (Badeidha Moe Civil Society Organization (BDM) အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအား ဝမ္းေျမွာက္စြာျဖင့္ မိတ္ဆက္ေပးလုိက္ပါသည္။
Should Myanmar’s Sipin Committees be freely elected by univeral suffrage?
State and Region Parliaments have powers to enact legislation on municipal matters under section 188 of Myanmar’s 2008 constitution. In Myanmar, where Township Municipal Affairs Committees (TMAC) (also referred to as Sipin Committees) act as the third layer of government, this is a great opportunity to use this legislative power effectively in order to have more representative and accountable peoples’ representatives at the local level.
STEP Democracy starts delivering civic education to schools in Myanmar
Through its consortium of nine national and international partners, STEP Democracy strives to increase the knowledge and skills of Myanmar people so they can more effectively participate in their democratic processes. This ranges from the Union Election Commission to political parties and civil society.
STEP Democracy to conduct civic education in schools
In order to ensure that young people are given the knowledge needed to participate in their democratic surroundings from an early age, International IDEA and its two national partners, Scholar Institute and Paññā Institute, are working on the development and implementation of a civic education curriculum geared towards students from ages 13-16 through the EU funded STEP Democracy programme.
Supporting Myanmar women’s participation in elections and democracy
Today–International Women’s Day–is a great opportunity to reflect on the situation of women’s political participation in Myanmar. In a country where women make up 5