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Empowering Women for Stronger Political Parties: A Guidebook to Promote Women’s Political Participation

Authored by: Julie Ballington

Categories: Statebuilding
Sub-Categories: Democratization and Political Participation, Political Transitions
Country: Armenia, Australia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Timor-Leste, United Kingdom, United States
Region: East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Year: 2012
Citation: Ballington, Julie. Empowering Women for Stronger Political Parties: A Guidebook to Promote Women's Political Participation. New York: United Nations Development Programme, 2012.

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Executive Summary

This report provides guidance and tools for increasing women's political involvement, including strategies that can be used throughout electoral cycles and across specific political parties. It emphasizes the diversity of political roles open to women, including candidates, party members, leaders, and office holders. It argues that when women have a real voice in all governance institutions they can significantly influence the decisions that determine their own futures.