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Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) in Serbia and the Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI) conducted a research analysis on budgetary allocations for youth and youth organisations at the local level in Serbia. The findings from this research also include specific data on how youth organisations function and what their cooperation with local level institutions looks like.
Serbia | Study |
This policy document is a collaborative advocacy initiative of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and ENGENDER Consultancy. The report delves into each of the measures presented in the Budget under three distinct themes — inclusive and sustainable economic growth, institutional reforms, and good governance, each of which is framed to restore confidence and combat inequality through social justice.
Malaysia | Report |
The WFD Myanmar programme has now ended.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) is the UK public body dedicated to supporting democracy around the world.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) သည် ကမ္ဘာ့နေရာ အသီးသီးရှိ ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်ကို အစဉ်တစိုက် ပံ့ပိုးကူညီပေးသည့် ယူကေနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်သူပိုင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
In 2016, WFD started a programme to provide technical and non-partisan support the Union-level Parliaments of Myanmar. All programme activities were suspended at the end of January 2021 and the country office closed at end of June 2021.
WFD သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်ထောင်စုအဆင့် လွှတ်တော်များကို ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ဘက်မလိုက် သော အကူအညီများ ပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်ရန်အတွက် လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များကို ၂၀၁၆ ခုနှစ်မှစတင်၍ ဆောင် ရွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များအားလုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလအကုန်မှစ၍ ဆိုင်းငံ့ထားခဲ့ပြီး WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇွန်လအကုန်တွင် ပိတ်သိမ်းခဲ့ပါသည်။
The WFD Myanmar programme worked with legislators, parliamentary committees, parliamentary staff and civil society organisations to improve the technical capacity of Parliament, encourage legislators to engage effectively with the people they represent and promote better engagement between Parliament and civil society.
WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအစီအစဉ်သည် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ၊ လွှတ် တော်ကော်မတီများ၊ လွှတ်တော်ဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ပူး ပေါင်း၍ လွှတ်တော်၏ ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာစွမ်းရည်ကိုမြှင့်တင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များက မိမိတို့ ကိုယ်စားပြုသည့်လူထုနှင့် ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင်ရွက် နိုင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော်နှင့် အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအကြား ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင် ရွက်မှု ပိုမိုအားကောင်းလာစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) is the UK public body dedicated to supporting democracy around the world.
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) သည် ကမ္ဘာ့နေရာ အသီးသီးရှိ ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်ကို အစဉ်တစိုက် ပံ့ပိုးကူညီပေးသည့် ယူကေနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်သူပိုင်အဖွဲ့အစည်းတစ်ရပ်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
In 2016, WFD started a programme to provide technical and non-partisan support the Union-level Parliaments of Myanmar. All programme activities were suspended at the end of January 2021 and the country office closed at end of June 2021.
WFD သည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ပြည်ထောင်စုအဆင့် လွှတ်တော်များကို ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာနှင့် ဘက်မလိုက် သော အကူအညီများ ပံ့ပိုးပေးနိုင်ရန်အတွက် လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များကို ၂၀၁၆ ခုနှစ်မှစတင်၍ ဆောင် ရွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော လုပ်ငန်းအစီအစဉ်များအားလုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလအကုန်မှစ၍ ဆိုင်းငံ့ထားခဲ့ပြီး WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရုံးကို ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဇွန်လအကုန်တွင် ပိတ်သိမ်းခဲ့ပါသည်။
The WFD Myanmar programme worked with legislators, parliamentary committees, parliamentary staff and civil society organisations to improve the technical capacity of Parliament, encourage legislators to engage effectively with the people they represent and promote better engagement between Parliament and civil society.
WFD ၏ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအစီအစဉ်သည် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ၊ လွှတ် တော်ကော်မတီများ၊ လွှတ်တော်ဝန်ထမ်းများ၊ အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် ပူး ပေါင်း၍ လွှတ်တော်၏ ပညာရပ်ဆိုင်ရာစွမ်းရည်ကိုမြှင့်တင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များက မိမိတို့ ကိုယ်စားပြုသည့်လူထုနှင့် ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင်ရွက် နိုင်ရန်၊ လွှတ်တော်နှင့် အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအကြား ချိတ်ဆက်ဆောင် ရွက်မှု ပိုမိုအားကောင်းလာစေရန် ရည်ရွယ်ပါသည်။
For a decade, Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) supported the Parliament of Ghana as it worked to become a stronger, more inclusive and accountable institution. WFD Ghana nurtured the next generation of political leaders – both young men and young women – to better equip them to break from participating in decision-making.
In October 2020, WFD marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Ghana. Like everywhere, the task of strengthening democracy in the country is ongoing. WFD’s Ghanaian partners – including the Speaker, Members, Secretary General and staff of the Parliament of Ghana and civil society organisations – continue this important work.
In addition to the programme’s achievements detailed below, the rich legacy of WFD’s work in Ghana includes a wealth of local knowledge and relationships which WFD retains within our regional African programmes and those in the rest of the world.
In October 2020, WFD marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Ghana. Like everywhere, the task of strengthening democracy in the country is ongoing. WFD’s Ghanaian partners – including the Speaker, Members, Secretary General and staff of the Parliament of Ghana and civil society organisations – continue this important work.
In addition to the programme’s achievements detailed below, the rich legacy of WFD’s work in Ghana includes a wealth of local knowledge and relationships which WFD retains within our regional African programmes and those in the rest of the world.
How governments spend taxpayers’ money is too important to be left unchecked. Elected representatives, especially at a time of great pressure on state budgets, must be empowered to scrutinise and control spending decisions. To help them do this, Westminster Foundation for Democracy has produced a series of policy briefs on parliaments and managing public money.
Briefing |
As the involvement of parliaments in the ex–post stage of law making remains under-theorised, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy has just released a new publication, providing an analysis of the main rules, practices and trends on PLS in Europe, focusing on the experience of seven national parliaments: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.
Study |
Democracies need everyone to be represented in decision-making. We all lose out if women are left out. We need more women’s leadership. WFD programmes and research around the world have demonstrated what stands in the way of women’s leadership and the benefits it brings. We have also learned how we can support it.
Corruption has a negative effect on development, economic growth, and democracy. Independent Anti-Corruption Agencies (ACAs) are often recommended as the tool to curb corruption. However, the creation of such agencies is not a panacea to the scourge of corruption. In some instances, ACAs have been a disappointment and their effectiveness has been questioned. Their efficiency depends on political will to allocate authority, powers, and resources.
To assess the extent to which legislators have been able to exert leadership during COVID-19 and the impact that legislative oversight has had on government responses, Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the Developmental Leadership Programme and the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham developed the “Legislative Responses to COVID-19 Tracker”, which monitors whether the legislature sat; whether there was legislative oversight of the initial response from 1 March to 1 May 2020; and whether legislatures had ongoing oversight from 1 April to 1 September 2020. This report sets out the findings of the research, and outlines recommendations for how countries can ensure effective accountability and oversight in times of crisis.
Study |
This survey was conducted to gain insight into the public's understanding and viewpoints on climate change and renewal energy in Armenia and help policymakers and legislators in their ongoing work. You can read the highlights of the report in this page or download the full report in pdf format.
Armenia | Report |
Sustainable Development Goal 16 (SDG16) is a hugely significant commitment because it makes an explicit connection between global development and the importance of peace, justice and good governance. Democratic institutions have an important role to play in delivering the Global Goals everywhere.
In North Macedonia, 80% of young people think that the authorities do not care about them at all or only partially care about them and their needs and problems. This finding is a part of a recent study on the “social-political participation of youth” that Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) conducted in the country. The study is a result of WFD’s efforts to investigate the current perceptions and positions of youth in the country.
North Macedonia | Study |
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) provided support to the National Assembly of Armenia. WFD’s partnership was sought by the National Assembly of Armenia as the country transitioned from a presidential to a parliamentary system of governance. Until 2019 WFD supported parliament’s role in public financial management and provided technical and procedural assistance to the assembly.
Following the “Velvet Revolution” and elections of 2018, WFD worked in partnership with local and international implementers to increase its support to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. WFD led on assessing the needs of parliament and designing a substantial new package of support to increase the effectiveness of the National Assembly. Through the UNDP-led “Modern Parliament for a Modern Armenia” programme, WFD supported the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from June 2020 to 2021. In June 2021, Westminster Foundation for Democracy marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Armenia.
Following the “Velvet Revolution” and elections of 2018, WFD worked in partnership with local and international implementers to increase its support to the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia. WFD led on assessing the needs of parliament and designing a substantial new package of support to increase the effectiveness of the National Assembly. Through the UNDP-led “Modern Parliament for a Modern Armenia” programme, WFD supported the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia from June 2020 to 2021. In June 2021, Westminster Foundation for Democracy marked the conclusion of its most recent programme in Armenia.
WFD has been working and contributing towards strengthening democracy in Nigeria since 2012, promoting inclusive, open, and transparent governance and championing gender and human rights. We also work to promote the participation of young people, women, and persons with disabilities in elections and support the legislature to review and pass laws protecting women and girls against violence. This is in line with WFD’s strategic country focus of promoting inclusive citizens participation and accountable governance.
Partnerships at the national and state level have enhanced our democracy strengthening work. This includes working with the Nigerian National Assembly; State Houses of Assembly; Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS); National Youth Service Corps (NYSC); political parties; and civil society organisations that support young people, women, and persons with disabilities.
Partnerships at the national and state level have enhanced our democracy strengthening work. This includes working with the Nigerian National Assembly; State Houses of Assembly; Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS); National Youth Service Corps (NYSC); political parties; and civil society organisations that support young people, women, and persons with disabilities.