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This policy brief focuses on how an increased strategic foresight and stress-testing capacity of national parliaments and governments can improve policy resilience.
Briefing |
Gender-based violence and environmental protection are linked. Transforming gender roles is indispensable for effective environmental democracy – which requires inclusion in decision-making on environmental governance – and better environmental outcomes.
UK and WFD assist Georgia in enhancing climate action and ambition, strengthening environmental democracy and resilience.
Georgia |
To prepare for COP27, we’ve collected the highlights of our resources on environmental democracy.
Political parties can help strengthen environmental democracy through mediating public preferences and political voices, by holding government accountable on environmental actions, and through party competition. But there is a need for more awareness of environmental issues and policy responses to climate change among political parties – that is where international support can help.
Across the world, WFD works on accountability and transparency, elections, participation and openness, inclusion, environmental democracy, and women's political leadership.
We are delighted to welcome environmental democracy experts from across the world and representing civil society, law, politics and academia.
This guide for parliamentary practice outlines an approach to assessing the implementation and the impact of climate and environmental legislation at national level.
Guide |
In December WFD co-hosted the 5th Bali Civil Society & Media Forum and participated in the 15th Bali Democracy Forum (BDF). During a panel discussion focused on democracyat the heart of ensuring fair and equitable access to global public goods, WFD’s Environmental Democracy Adviser Rafael Jiménez-Aybar shared his thoughts on the intersection of democracy and climate change.
This report examines how states that are committed to strengthening democracy engage with authoritarian states – and how this can strengthen authoritarianism. It outlines how pro-democracy governments can better engage with authoritarian states to avoid doing democratic harm and ultimately strengthen democracy around the world.
Report |
Parliamentary and legislative indicators for post-legislative scrutiny
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Building on our Environmental Democracy initiative, WFD calls for stronger climate action from parliamentarians of the G20 nations as we draw closer toward the 2030 targets of cutting global carbon emissions by half.
Developed under the program "Advancing Environmental Protection, Climate Change and Democratic Resilience in Georgia: Phase 2," these resources are designed to foster the dissemination of the latest scientific data and predictions, ultimately contributing to public awareness and debate on the pressing climate crisis.
Georgia |
Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) has played a key role in advancing democratic development in Georgia by strengthening governmental institutions, promoting parliamentary effectiveness, supporting media, empowering civil society organisations, and improving environmental governance.