The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC), the Pacific Islands, Australia and New Zealand Electoral Administrators Network (PIANZEA), with International IDEA, are cooperating in a 4-day workshop based on the ‘Strategic Planning for Effective Electoral Management’ Module of the ‘Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections’ (BRIDGE) Training curriculum.
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Discussion on the report : How are female politicians of Fiji treated on Facebook.
Women are under-represented in Fijian politics. Reasons for low number of women in politics relate to political and cultural factors. Once elected, women continue to encounter challenges and obstacles to work effectively. Increasingly, political violence against women is featuring on social medial platforms too.
In light of the current political, economic, and socio-cultural crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the UP CIDS Programs in 2020 revised its activities to examine the negative impact of the pandemic and to propose possible solutions to this.
The 2013 Constitution and related electoral legal framework, introduced substantial changes to Fiji’s electoral system and processes, marking departure from previous constitutions since gaining independence in 1970. These changes also brought about new expectations, anxieties and at times also suspicions. This Webinar is intended to help iron out misunderstandings and misgivings about the current electoral system in Fiji.
The Youth Democracy Academy: Online Learning Series for BARMM Youth will hold its sixth session on Civil Society on 18 December 2020.
In this year’s Forum of the C3-Fiji Project, International IDEA is inviting women MPs, officials from the Ministry of Women, Fiji Women Rights Movement (FWRM), Fiji Women Crisis Centre (FWCC), Fijian Elections Office (FEO), civil society organizations, young aspiring interested women, women from marginalized groups, and academics to discuss the persistent challenges and emernging opportunities regarding women in politics in Fiji.
International IDEA and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia will co-host a webinar covering key regional insights from International IDEA’s Global State of Democracy 2019 report and the experiences from the 2020 Mongolian legislative election that was held in June amidst the pandemic.
As a part of the Drive for Democracy, Sweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs and missions abroad have implemented “Democracy Talks” in 2020.
On 1 December, the Youth Democracy Academy: Online Learning Series for BARMM Youth will hold its fifth session on Parliaments.
International IDEA, in collaboration with UP CIFAL Philippines and the Ateneo School of Government, is organizing a virtual discussion: 'Lessons from International Elections - Resilience Measures to Ensure the 2022 Philippines Elections'.
The Youth Democracy Academy: Online Learning Series for Bangsamoro Youth will hold its fourth session on Elections on Tuesday, 24 November 2020.
Our 25th anniversary virtual conference will offer a tour of democracy around the world consisting of sequenced regional sessions. Hear from experts including Thomas Carothers, Ann Linde, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and Tania Pariona.
Each session will be live streamed and no registration is required to watch.
25 HOURS
12 SESSIONS
63 SPEAKERS
The third Session on Political Parties of the Youth Democracy Academy: Online Learning Series for BARMM Youth will be held on 17 November 2020.
The session will have Frank Kayitare, Great Lakes Regional Representative of Interpeace and former Senior Programme Officer of International IDEA as resource person.
The Youth Democracy Academy: Online Learning Series for BARMM Youth will hold the Second Session on Constitutions on 5 November 2020 with Amanda Cats-Baril, Programme Manager of MyConstitution and Regional Advisor on Constitution-Building as resource person.
The youth in the Philippines are active in informal forms of political participation such as volunteerism, student activism and social media campaigns. There are also formal governance platforms for youth representation such as the Sanggunian Kabataan (Youth Council) and Katipunan ng Kabataan (youth assemblies). However, there is lack of formal and civic education to prepare them for effective participation in these platforms.
Forms of special voting arrangements (SVAs) conventionally include early, postal, online, proxy voting and use of mobile ballot boxes. Some of these SVAs involve voting within supervised voting stations and some enable voting without/outside polling stations.
The Seoul International Forum on Elections (SIFE) is an annual international conference organized by the National Election Commission (NEC) of the Republic of Korea. It has been held every year since 2015, growing into an important event bringing together officials from election management bodies and global experts in the fields of elections and democracy and international organizations to advance election systems and democracy around the world through active discussions.
The Government of Indonesia will convene the 13th Bali Democracy Forum (13th BDF) in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, in December 2020. The BDF that was established in 2008 aimed to create a progressive democratic architecture in the Asia and the Pacific region. In the past decades, the Forum facilitated dialogues on sharing experiences and best practices among the participating countries from various regions in managing diversity that encourages equality, mutual understanding, and respect.