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This resource highlights the constructive role of parliaments in overcoming the challenges anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) often face. It provides an insight into parliaments’ role in contributing to combatting corruption by exercising their legislative and oversight role in support of the effectiveness of ACAs.
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In Sierra Leone, we have helped make sure citizens can access parliament and understand its work, through initiatives from open days to apps. During the Parliament’s recent Open Day, WFD gave access to several people to learn about the work of WFD and Parliament. It was a chance for advocates to meet the Speaker
WFD seeks an expert to provide the British Embassy in Bishkek and their Kyrgyz counterparts with senior-level advice on legal and economic reforms to enhance the economic and administrative environment, and build strong UK-Kyrgyz relations on democratic governance issues.
Despite young people constituting about 70% of the Nigerian population, they still face exclusion from governance in the West Africa country. To address this, WFD supported the Young Parliamentarians Forum (YPF) in holding an emergency national strategy retreat on rethinking youth development.
Nigeria |
To mark the launch of WFD's new Environmental Democracy Initiative, a virtual parliamentary roundtable featuring legislators from the United Kingdom, Georgia, Ghana, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Sierra Leone was hosted in July 2020.
Despite the outbreak of the war, WFD continues to work with parliament on a range of initiatives, including post-legislative scrutiny, improving support to law drafting, full policy cycle, hybrid and online procedures, and co-operation between parliament and the government. These processes will be essential to Ukraine’s resilience and post-conflict recovery.
WFD's elections expert, Tanja Hollstein, discussed key insights from a conversation with WFD's Country Director in Indonesia, Ravio Patra, following the elections in Indonesia held on 14 February 2024.
In the short time since the Prime Minister announced the creation of a new Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, my former colleagues in both the FCO and DFID have been working hard to prepare for its launch tomorrow. But determining the culture of FCDO will be a multi-year task – I was present when DFID was created and know how significant this change in identity could be.
WFD’s Chief Executive, Anthony Smith, responds to Democracy Under Pressure: A Global Survey – a joint product from the International Republican Institute (IRI) and french think-tank, the Fondation pour l’Innovation.
WFD is the UK public body dedicated to strengthening democracy and open societies around the world.
The Democracy Action Partnership (DAP) is a multi-stakeholder, participatory event designed to catalyse action to solve democratic governance problems in Southeast Asia.
WFD Uganda has facilitated platforms for persons with disabilities (PWDs) to address the existing gap between their leaders and their constituents and amplified their voices in policy debate and formulation.
Uganda |
On 18-20 June 2018, WFD supported a conference on populism in partnership with International IDEA, Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy, OSCE/ODIHR and REPRESENT.
WFD is working in Maldives to facilitate collaborative effort to enhance meaningful engagement and promote dialogue between CSOs and the parliament. Read the story below to find out more about WFD's work in Maldives
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WFD organised a two-day policy training in Morocco, empowering youth and civil society for more inclusive parliamentary work.
Morocco |