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Algeria - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Bahrain - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Comoros - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union - Comoros Islands
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Djibouti - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Egypt - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Egypt - Developing a Parliamentary Research Service, the Experience of Egypt
[English]. 1999
Overview of the Egyptian experience in developing a parliamentary research services by Wafaa Ali Abdel Elah, Research Service, People's Assembly of Egypt.
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Egypt - Egyptian Legislation and Jurisprudence
[English][Arabic][French]. 2006
A handbook of the project that established the legislation and jurisprudence data base in Egypt.
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Egypt - Egyptian Political Parties, Constraints and Limitations: Report of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
[Arabic]. 2007
An article published by the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights discussing the difficulties inherent in the Egyptian partisan sphere, mainly concerning the formation of new political parties and the restricting legislative environment. The article also draws attention to impediments regarding issuing favorable laws as a result of the ruling party's large influence on the ratification of laws.
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Egypt - Official Structures in the Service of Research and Information in the Egyptian Parliament
[English]. 2005
The Egyptian Parliament offers technical and administrative assistance to its members through different organs, with the main objective of empowering MPs to carry out their legislative and control tasks and in this study an attempt is made to describe and evaluate the official institutional structures that offer information and research services in Parliament.
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Egypt - Parallel Structures for Parliamentary Research and Studies in Egypt
[English]. 2005
This report reviews the parallel information structures of the Egyptian People’s Assembly. It seeks to place these structures within a theoretical framework that facilitates a comparison with other cases in the area of performance evaluation and raising alternatives to enhance information efficiency in parliamentary debates.
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Egypt - Performance Based Budgeting from a Gender Perspective- Egypt
[Arabic]. 2004
The following resource book, produced by the Public Administration Research and Consultation Centre (PARC) of Cairo University in collaboration with the Egyptian National Council for women, explains performance based budgeting and ways of integrating gender into those budgets. The book also provides a number of examples and practical tools.
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Egypt - Political Empowerment of Egyptian Women, is Quota the Solution ?!!
[Arabic]. 2009
This study is an overview of the political participation of women in Egypt. The study enumerates the rights gained by women after the July revolution, notably the right of nomination and election. It also monitors the constraints which stand in the face of the political empowerment of women in International Law and the Egyptian Constitution. The study discusses the quota in the international conventions, as well as the presence of women in the legislative, executive and judicial branch.
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Egypt - The Parliament Press in Egypt 2000 – 2003: A Mechanism for increasing Awareness of the Legislative Institution
[English]. 2005
This study raises a number of questions that seek to give depth to the debate on the role of the parliamentary press. The analysis in this paper focused on a period from 2000 to 2003, which includes a national parliamentary election round in 2000. This election has seen some new phenomena that have left their mark on parliamentary life thereafter.
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Egypt - The Women's Movement in Egypt with Selected References to Turkey
[English]. 2002
This report ,published by UNRISD, discusses the historical backgrounds and contemporary contexts of women’s movements in Egypt and Turkey. It describes the potential of women’s movements to become a force for democratization in the contemporary Middle East and a champion of women’s rights.
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Egypt - Women's Right in Focus: Egypt
[English]. 2005
This report presents the findings of a study on public attitudes towards women's rights in Egypt. It discusses the status of women's political, educational, economic, and legal rights, as well as the role of the media and information technology in expanding the information available to women on news, politics, and local affairs. The study finds that progress for women is hindered by gaps in public knowledge about basic rights, as well as by institutional weaknesses in Egypt’s government.
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Iraq - Building a New Iraq: Ensuring Women’s Rights
[English]. 2005
This report, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discusses women’s political participation in Iraq, including their role in building sustainable peace in the country and drafting the new constitution. It also includes biographies of some Iraqi women leaders and list of publications related to the new role of women in Iraq.
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Iraq - Democracy in the Making: Key Options in Iraq's Democratization Process
[English][Arabic]. 2005
This policy paper is aimed at the Iraqi political and social leadership representing different and conflicting visions, but is also relevant to those sectors of the international community called to provide technical, financial and political support to the transition process in Iraq. This policy paper addresses three discrete areas: constitution building processes, electoral system design and political parties in divided societies. It is based on a comparative global analysis undertaken by IDEA. It is meant to offer practical options on how to strengthen democratic institutions and processes.
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Iraq - Developing Iraq’s Security Sector The Coalition Provisional Authority’s Experience
[English]. 2005
This report, published by Rand, concerns itself with the efforts to build both forces and institutions in Iraq. It provides a historical record of the coalition’s experience and seeks, insofar as is possible at this early stage, to draw lessons from the successes and failures of that experience.
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Iraq - Executive, Legislative and Judicial Powers, Checks and Balances and Judicial Independence: A Paper Prepared for the UN Project on Constitution Making in Iraq
[Arabic]. 2005
This study, prepared by NDI, focuses on the distribution of power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the state.
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Iraq - Manual on Legislative Drafting for the Iraqi Council of Representatives
[Arabic]. 2008
This manual was prepared by Mr. Mahmoud Sabra, one of the Arab region’s leading experts in legislative drafting, and was published by UNDP-POGAR as part of the project entitled “Strengthening the Capacities of the Iraqi Council of Representatives”. This manual is designed specifically for the Iraqi Council of Representatives, and contains guidelines on how to read, analyze, and draft a bill. The purpose of the Manual is to help members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives and legal councilors perform their duties as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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Iraq - Winning the Peace: Women’s Role in Post-Conflict Iraq
[English]. 2005
Report published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars including findings and recommendations discussed at the Winning the Peace: women's role in rebuilding Iraq conference. It describes Iraqi women's role in reconstructing post-conflict Iraq and their participation in governance, legislature, and civil society.
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Iraq - Women’s Rights Under Attack: Occupation, Constitution and Fundamentalisms
[English]. 2006
This publication highlights the work that Iraqi women are doing to try to amend the new Iraqi Constitution
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Iraq - Women's Rights in the New Constitution of Iraq: Perspectives from the Afghan Constitutional Experience
[Arabic]. 2003
This study published by NDI, discusses women's rights in the new Iraqi constitution. The study takes women's rights in the new Afghani constitution as a case study, and sheds light on women's right in different constitutions as well. It concludes with recommendations on how to embed women's right in the new constitution.
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Jordan - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Jordan - First Class: Profiles of Women MPs and Senators in Jordan 2003-2007
[English][Arabic]. 2006
NDI produced this report, profiling Jordanian women serving in the lower and upper houses of Parliament between 2003 and 2007.
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Jordan - Jordan: Elections and Parliament
[English][French]. 1997
This site offers a detailed breakdown of the results of Jordan's 1997 Parliamentary Elections. The European Institute prepared it for Research on Mediterranean and Euro-Arab Cooperation (MEDEA).
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Jordan - Jordanian Woman's Participation in Politics: Analytical Study of the Parliamentary conduct in the Fourteenth Parliament Council
[Arabic]. 2007
This report, published by the United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM) in collaboration with the National Committee for Women, aims at shedding light on and studying the situation of Jordanian women in terms of political participation and the role of political will in guaranteeing the presence and integration of women in decision-making processes in Jordan. It also deals with the obstacles and challenges facing women in politics, and places emphasis on women political participation in Jordan since the beginning of 2003 when Provisional Law No. 34, dated 2001on Parliamentary Elections, known as the Women Quota Law, was amended. The report contains an anaysis and comparison between the strengths and weaknesses in the law within the national context.
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Jordan - Jordanian Women Experience in Accessing Parliament
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This study stresses on the importance of women access to the legislature with particular emphasis on the experience of Jordanian women in this regard. It also analyzes the reasons behind women's failure and sets out the required measures for strengthening their capacity to access parliament.
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Jordan - Public Opinion, Terrorism and the Jordanian Security Sector
[English]. 2008
This study aims to analyze the relations between the different branches of the Jordanian state, civil and military based on a compilation of surveys and public polls.
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Jordan - The Economic Advancement of Women in Jordan: A Country Gender Assessment
[English]. 2005
This study prepared by the World Bank, discusses the women economic advancement in Jordan. It sheds light on the gender issues in human development, and highlights the legal, policy, and institutional frameworks for women's economic advancement and political participation.
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Jordan - The Main Actors in the Law – Making Process for Economic Reform: An Assessment of their Strengths & Weaknesses to Participate in the Law – Making Process in Egypt
[English]. 2005
After launching the Economic Reform and Stabilization Adjustment Program (ERSAP) in 1991 the Egyptian government embarked on a new initiative to reform and upgrade the legislative framework. This paper highlights the role of the Executive, the Legislative and civil society, showing the weaknesses and the strengths of the process.
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Jordan - Towards Political Empowerment of Jordanian Women
[Arabic]. 2006
This study covers three major topics: first, women and international instruments of human rights; second, Jordan’s position in respect of these instruments; and third, how women’s legal status has been affected by these instruments. The report also identifies areas if legal concern relevant to the legal status of Jordanian women. The report also examines the status of women in Jordan in other areas including education, health, economic empowerment and the family. The report recognizes that considerable achievements have been made in terms of improvements in women’s status, but nevertheless highlights areas of particular concern in respect of women’s health and economic stats.
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Kuwait - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Kuwait - Kuwait: Citizens Attitude towards Women Political Participation
[Arabic]. 2007
This research sheds light on the attitudes of Kuwaiti citizens towards the political participation of women. It mainly aims at exploring the public's vision of women as political actors in the country and of women's participation during past elections, as well as the factors affecting voters' choice during the elections of the Majlis Al-Oumma. The study consisted of seven focus groups of voters aged between 24 and 40, from both sexes and belonging to both the sedentary and nomadic population in Kuwait. In-depth meetings were also held with eight Kuwaiti opinion leaders who are active in the field of the media, education, law, economy and politics.
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Kuwait - Women's Right in Focus: Kuwait
[English]. 2005
This report presents the findings of a study on public attitudes towards women's rights in Kuwait. It examines public sentiment on Kuwaiti women's right to vote, women as political candidates, and Kuwait's political system. It also explores Islam's role in debates on women's rights and the resistance to outside efforts to advance women's political rights in Kuwait.
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Lebanon - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Lebanon - Government Institutions Strengthening Component Local Government and Parliament Project Report
[English]. 2004
This report highlights the achievements of the Center for Legislative Development of the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY/CLD) since 1993, in providing technical and administrative assistance to the Government of Lebanon through the Lebanon Relief and Redevelopment Project
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Lebanon - Lebanon – Parliament Proceeding in 2004
[Arabic]. 2004
This report contains a brief on the outcome of the parliament’s legislative and supervisory roles, on administrative development in 2004, in addition to the parliament’s Arab and international relations.
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Lebanon - Lebanon – Parliament Proceedings in 2003
[Arabic]. 2003
This report contains a brief on the role played by the Lebanese parliament and parliamentarian diplomacy, in addition to its legislative and supervisory task.
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Lebanon - Parliamentary Work
[Arabic]. 2005
Publications of the parliament
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Lebanon - The Lebanese Parliament: Dynamics and Assessment, 1997
[English]. 1997
English abstract of the monograph "The 1992-1996 Lebanese Parliament" published originally in Arabic by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. The research focused on the performance of the Lebanese Parliament as the legislative branch of the government.
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Libya - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Mauritania - Handbook for Mauritanian Senators
[Arabic][French]. 2009
This publication, prepared by the Mauritanian Senate in collaboration with UNDP, provides a practical handbook for the Mauritanian senators. It sheds light on the Mauritanian institutional structure, and discusses the Senate’s organization, and the different stages of the legislative process. It also discusses the oversight role of the Senators.
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Mauritania - Handbook for Parliamentarians on Public Finance: Budgetary procedures, glossary and guidebook
[Arabic][French]. 2009
This handbook published by the Mauritanian parliament in cooperation with UNDP, explains the process of preparing the national budget. It defines the national budget and sheds light on the legislative framework governing it. It clarifies the steps of preparing the budget, voting on it, and conducting oversight over its implementation. The publication also includes general guidelines as well as a glossary of related terminologies.
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Morocco - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Morocco - Facing Challenges and Pioneering Feminist and Gender Studies: Women in Post-colonial and Today's Maghrib
[English]. 2008
A paper published by African and Asian Studies revealing the positive role played by Maghribi women (North African) in the overall development of their countries. It focuses on women's activism in the political sphere and civil society, and their contributions to academia. It sheds light on legislation concerning women, and improvements in women's legal rights whereby the family and nationality laws were amended in the post-colonial period.
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Morocco - Guide to the Morocco Legal System
[English]. 2002
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Morocco - Moroccan Gender Report 2006
[Arabic]. 2005
This annex to the 2006 economic and financial report on the gender approach stands as a pioneer step in the Arab world. The report sheds light on the gender approach concept and methodology and on some of the elements of the public policies on gender implemented by the various ministries.
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Morocco - Moroccan Gender Report 2007
[English][Arabic]. 2006
The 2007 Gender Report published by the Ministry of Finance and Privatization, seeks to assess policies and practices followed by the different ministries, related to gender-responsive budgeting.
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Morocco - Moroccan Gender Report 2008
[English][Arabic]. 2007
The 2008 Gender Report published by the Ministry of Finance and Privatization aims to review and analyze the impact of the major sectoral programmes to identify some areas of intervention to better take into consideration the gender dimension in the design of public policies.
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Morocco - Study on the Representation of Women in Group Elections
[Arabic]. 2009
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Morocco - The Internal Regulations of the House of Representatives: Commented Study
[Arabic]. 2008
Study by Mr. Rachid Medouar, Member of Parliament, House of Representatives, Morocco.
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Morocco - The Process of Issuing the Work Code in Morocco
[English]. 2005
The paper seeks to ask about the elaboration process of the Work Code. It retraces the political as well as the juridical (legislative and regulatory) itinerary followed by the Code’s text.
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Morocco - Women Rights in Focus: Morocco
[English]. 2004
Set of nationwide focus groups conducted in Morocco to gain a deeper understanding of popular attitudes towards women's economic, social, political, and legal rights. It aims to facilitate and support national and international efforts to empower women in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Morocco - Women's Right in Focus: Morocco
[English]. 2004
This report, published by Freedom House, presents the findings of a study on public attitudes towards women's rights in Morocco. These findings reveal a general sense of women's progress in Morocco, broad support for women's educational and political rights, changing views in support of women's right to work, and divided views on women's social and family rights. The report also determines that Moroccans’ understanding of Islam strongly informs their views on women’s freedom.
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Oman - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Oman - Political Development and the Majlis Ash'shura
[English]. 1995
The International Republican Institute (IRI) has conducted a survey of the development of popular governmental participation and the Majlis Ash'Shura (Consultative Assembly) in the Sultanate of Oman, one of the world's last remaining monarchies. This report provides an examination of these Omani political reforms and offers insight into their future.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Building a Successful Palestinian State
[English]. 2006
This RAND publication examines the key security issues regarding the construction of a Palestinian state, through addressing the external security of such a state
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Constituency Relations: A Two-Way Street, A Workshop for Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council
[English][Arabic]. 1997
This document is a report of the workshop held by NDI in Palestine in 1996 titled "Constituency Relations: A Two - Way Street". The goal of the workshop was to discuss the different methods and tactics available to develop effective relations with the public despite shortages in resources.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Entry-Points to Palestinian Security Sector Reform
[Arabic]. 2007
This study deals with the reform of the Palestinian security sector. It discusses the legal framework for the governance of such sector, as well as the need for restructuring the security apparatus and for accompanying the security sector reform with a reform of the judiciary. The study also examines civilian control over the sector and the role of illegal armed groups.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Legislative-Executive Relations: Governing in Partnership, A Workshop for Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council
[English]. 1997
This is a report of the workshop organized by NDI in collaboration with Associates in Rural Development and the Center for Palestine Research and Studies, titled “Legislative – Executive Relations: Governing in Partnership”.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Organization of the Parliamentary Session: Balancing Democracy and Efficiency
[English][Arabic]. 1997
This document is a report of the workshop held by NDI in Palestine in 1997 titled "Organization of the Parliamentary Session: Balancing Democracy and Efficiency". The goal of the workshop was to discuss methods of increasing the efficiency of the plenary procedures, organizing the plenary in the absence of party mechanisms.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Parliamentarian’s Guide against Corruption
[Arabic]. 2006
This guide, published by Aman-Palestine, discusses corruption in the Palestinian Society and its effects. It provides parliamentarians with practical advices on how to fight corruption.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Politics, Security and the Barrier: Palestinian Public Perceptions
[English][Arabic]. 2006
This DCAF report examines if, and to what extent, changes in the political and socio-economic environment have affected Palestinian public perceptions of security sector governance. It also explores whether the change of government has altered the way Palestinians' perceive not only their security needs but also the peace process and their trust in political factions and the government.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Security Sector Reform (Palestine)
[Arabic]. 2005
This paper published by Aman-Palestine, provides an overview of the Palestinian security sector institutions and their relation to the rest of the public sector. It also discusses the different reforms of the security sector included in the reform document proposed the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2002.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Security Sector Reform Plan, Reorganization and Restructuring of the Security Sector Institutions
[Arabic]. 2005
This paper prepared by Aman – Palestine sheds light on the legal and institutional framework governing the security section in Palestine, and proposes practical reforms such as unification of some overlapping institutions, reorganizing the military hierarchy, and allocating a budget for the security sector.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - Strengthening the Accountability and Transparency of the Legislative Process in the West
[English]. 2008
This is a legislative oversight and advocacy skills training report on the roles of Palestinian Civil Society Organizations in the Gaza strip in the legislative process.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - The First Months of the Palestinian Legislative Council
[English]. 1996
This report published by NDI is an assessment of the Palestinian Legislative Council. It provides a snapshot of the PLC in its early weeks. Some of the issues covered are: the role of parties and factions in the PLC, the formal powers of the Palestinian council and constraints on it and its members, organization of the Council and its meetings. it also covered the Council structure, the legislative process, and the legislative executive relations.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - The Public Sector in Palestine: Duties and Powers of the Palestinian National Authority Institutions
[Arabic]. 2006
This publication produced by Aman-Palestine introduces the legal framework governing public sector institutions in Palestine by reviewing the legislations by virtue of which these institutions operate, be it the ones implemented by the concerned institutions or the administrative legislations organizing their activity. The study identifies the weaknesses and strengths in the legal situation of public sector institutions in Palestine, as well as the problems faced by these institutions and the obstacles preventing them from discharging their .duties in an efficient way, and suggests practical measures aimed at improving the efficiency of these institutions.
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Occupied Palestinian Territories - The Security Sector Legislation of the Palestinian National Authority
[English][Arabic]. 2008
This DCAF publication contains a compilation security sector legislation adopted by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) – laws, executive decisions, and bylaws of institutions relevant to the security sector.
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Qatar - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Saudi Arabia - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Saudi Arabia - The Saudi Security Apparatus: Military and Security Services-Challenges and Developments
[English]. 2004
This study, published by DCAF, highlights the challenges that Saudi Arabia faces in reforming its security sector apparatus and discusses the means to redefine some aspects of its security sector in order to meet these challenges.
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Somalia - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Sudan - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Sudan - Stewards of Peace. The Role of Women and Youth in Post-Conflict Sudan: Report on a Series of Workshops with Sudanese Women and Youth
[English]. 2005
This report covers the findings of the series of workshops facilitated by NDI that was designed to strengthen the capacity of Sudanese women and youth to play a full and active role in the future of their country. It focused on three areas: identifying and developing skills necessary to increase participation; providing a platform for cross-cultural dialogue; and creating an agenda for advocacy.
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Sudan - Towards Achieving the MDGs in Sudan: Centrality of Women’s Leadership and Gender Equality
[English]. 2005
This publication examines the relationship between women leadership and gender equality. It sheds light on promoting effective participation of Sudanese women in the peace process, and draws conclusions and recommendations on the centrality of women's leadership and gender equality to the MDG's in Sudan.
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Syria - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Syria - Towards Political Empowerment of Syrian Women
[English][Arabic]. 2006
Women’s representation rate in parliament is one of the most important gender indicators signifying level of women’s political participation, which is still low at the international level 13.4% and also in the Arab World 4.6%. During the past three decades, women’s status in Syria has faced radical changes in the area of strengthening women’s capacity in education, work and her general participation. This study is an attempt to examine the political system in Syria and identify obstacles and challenges facing women’s political empowerment.
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Tunisia - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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United Arab Emirates - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union - United Arab Emirates
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United Arab Emirates - Women and Political Participation in the United Arab Emirates
[English]. 2007
This study is an attempt to examine the political system in the United Arab Emirates and identify obstacles and challenges facing women’s political empowerment including the degree of prejudice of Emirati society towards women political empowerment.
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United Arab Emirates - Women and Political Participation in the United Arab Emirates: Political Participation of Women From the Perspective of the Educated Members of the Bahraini Society
[English][Arabic]. 2007
This study, published by the United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM) and the Supreme Council for Women, is an attempt to examine the political system in Bahrain and identify obstacles and challenges facing women’s political empowerment including the degree of prejudice of Bahraini society towards women political empowerment.
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Yemen - Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union
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Yemen - Building Democracy in Yemen: Women's Political Participation, Political Party Life and Democratic Elections
[English][Arabic]. 2005
This report discussed the political participation by Yemeni women, the constitutional and legal Bases of Party Pluralism in Yemen and the impact of their implementation.
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Yemen - Enhancing the Role of Women: UNDP Yemen Electoral Support Programme
[English]. 2004
Presentation published by the United Nations Development Programme - Yemen Electoral Support Programme. It focuses on UNDP's efforts to enhance women's politcal participation in Yemen. The presentation outlines the programmes' strategic areas of support in the elections process with a particular focus on voter education.
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Yemen - Report on the Status of Women in Yemen Five Years After Beijing 1995
[English]. 2002
The report published by The United Nations Development Fund for Women - Arab States evaluates the status of women in Yemen five years after the signing of the Beijing Platform for Action. It reviews women's involvement in a number of areas including their involvement in decision-making processes.
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Yemen - Strengthening Parliaments in Conflict/Post-conflict Situations: Case Study on Yemen
[English]. 2005
Study presented by Mr. Ahmed Saif, Professor of politics at the American university of Sharjah
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Yemen - The First Democratic Gathering: Women and Yemeni Political Parties
[Arabic]. 2005
This publication, prepared by the Montada Al Shaqeq Al Arabi for Human Rights, discusses the issue of women and political parties in Yemen and sheds light on the general context in which political parties emerged. It also includes a field study aimed at taking stock of women’s experience with political parties, as well as of the expressed roles, expertise, obstacles and ambition, in addition to personal testimonies from women belonging to different political parties who talk about their experience within their respective parties.
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Yemen - The Fourth Democratic Gathering: Women in Yemeni Local Councils
[Arabic]. 2005
This study reviews the experience of Yemeni women in local councils in general and focuses on the experience of women during the elections and the mandate of local councils in order to assess the actual performance and identify problems and achievements. The publication also highlights the personal experience of some of the local councils members during elections, and the problems they are faced in the course of their activity as local councils’ members, and includes a legal review and comments on the law on local councils.
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Yemen - Women’s Experience with Elections: The National Consultative Meeting with Female Candidates to the Parliamentary Elections in Yemen
[Arabic]. 2005
This publication, prepared by the Montada Al Shaqeq Al Arabi for Human Rights, sheds light on the political participation of Yemeni women by conducting a gender-based political, cultural and historical analysis of the electoral programs of political parties and organizations. It also refers to the experience of seven women who stood for the legislative elections in 2003 and who talked objectively of the obstacles preventing women’s participation in the electoral process in Yemen.
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Arab Countries - Arab Parliamentarians Handbook for Empowering Youth
[Arabic]. 2008
This handbook, published by UNDP in cooperation with the Arab Scout Parliamentary Union, and the Parliamentary Studies Programme at Cairo University, highlights the basic principles guiding youth policies, and provides Arab legislators with a draft youth law as well as an explanatory note on the draft law.
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Arab Countries - Arab Parliamentary Bulletin - Issue 1
[English][Arabic]. 2009
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Arab Countries - Arab Parliamentary Bulletin - Issue 2
[English][Arabic]. 2009
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Arab Countries - Arab Parliamentary Bulletin - Issue 3
[English][Arabic]. 2009
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Arab Countries - Arab Parliamentary Bulletin - Issue 4
[English][Arabic]. 2009
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Arab Countries - Arab Parliamentary Bulletin - Issue 5
[English][Arabic]. 2010
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Arab Countries - Arab States: Security Sector Institutions and Crisis of the Transition Towards Democracy
[Arabic]. 2005
This paper published by Aman-Palestine, discusses the obstacles faced in the democratic reform of the security sector in the Arab states.
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Arab Countries - Assessing Legislation: A Manual for Legislators
[English][Arabic]. 2003
This guide is coauthored by Robert B. Seidman, Ann Seidman, and Nalin Abeyesekere. UNDP funded its translation to Arabic. It aims at providing the legislators with the necessary tools that would help them in assessing legislations and proposing them to promote social and democratic change in their countries. The guide highlights and discusses several important topics such as the role of the legislator in facilitating socio-political and economic change, the legislative theory, and the methodology for problem solving, in addition to assessing the technical sufficiency for the proposed law.
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Arab Countries - Building the Capacity of Parliamentary Institutions and Promoting Citizen's Participation in the Arab Countries: Jordan - Iraq - Lebanon
[Arabic]. 2009
This publication includes Research results and workshops organized by UNDP-POGAR in partnership with IPALMO institute within the framework of the project Building Capacities of Parliamentary Institutions and Promotion of Citizen's Participation in the Arab Countries and Middle East. The project aims at strengthening the capacity of Parliament in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon in relation to its role in fighting corruption, promoting decentralization and in improving its representative function.
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Arab Countries - Comparative Study between the UN Convention on Fighting Corruption and Arab Legal Instruments
[Arabic]. 2005
This is a comparative study on the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), which was signed in 2003, and the compatibility of legislation in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Yemen with the provisions of this Convention.
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Arab Countries - Controlling Corruption: A Parliamentarian's Handbook
[English]. 2005
This handbook, published by the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption, is a guide to parliamentarians around the world interested in good governance and combating corruption. It discusses the relation between the parliament and good governance, the causes and consequences of corruption, controlling corruption, parliaments and coalition building tools and tasks, and building parliamentary networks.
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Arab Countries - Controlling Corruption: An Arab Parliamentarians’ Guide
[Arabic]. 2005
This guide, published by ARPAC, deals with the challenges of governance in the Arab countries and the role of parliaments in promoting accountability, transparency and participation. It introduces the notion of corruption and enumerates the five main elements to fight corruption: political accountability, institutional regulations on political power, a competitive private sector, public sector governance and civil society participation. It places emphasis on the main role of parliaments which consists in calling for reforms to fight corruption and realizing these reforms by building parliamentary networks and alliances. This guide is supplemented with annexes, namely the United Nations Convention against Corruption, articles from the bill on the fight against corruption in Algiers, as well as case studies from Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Egypt, Palestine and Jordan.
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Arab Countries - Democracy in the Arab World
[English][Arabic]. 2004
This report is based on the outcome of a project carried out by International IDEA, in cooperation with the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), aimed at discussing democratic reform in Egypt, Jordan and Yemen. Some of the main topics discussed are electoral laws and systems, enhancing women’s political participation, political parties, and the challenges and opportunities facing political reform in the Arab world.
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Arab Countries - Democracy in the Arab World: Challenges, Achievements and Prospects
[English]. 2000
Based on a roundtable discussion organized by IDEA, this is a review of democracy in the Arab World Region during the nineties looking at the main challenges in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Yemen. It analyses issues such as the role of religion in politics, the participation of women, globalization, elections, democratic institutions and the freedom of association.
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Arab Countries - Draft International Law for Youth: Arab Countries and Legislations Related to Youth Rights and Duties. Second Study
[Arabic]. 2007
This study was prepared by the Arab Scout Parliamentary Union, and the Parliamentary Program at Cairo University, with the support of UNDP. The study aims at observing the best practices in Arab legislation (focus of this study), as well as modern international legislation (the focus of the first study “Draft International Law for Youth: Survey of International Youth Related Legislation”) as it is a legislative and institutional mechanism for Arab youth empowerment.
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Arab Countries - Draft International Law for Youth: Survey of International Youth Related Legislation. First Study
[Arabic]. 2007
This study was prepared by the Arab Scout Parliamentary Union, the Parliamentary Program at Cairo University, with the support of UNDP. The study aims at observing the best practices in modern international legislation (the focus of this study) as well as Arab legislation (focus of the second study “Draft International Law for Youth: Arab Countries and Legislations Related to Youth Rights and Duties”), as it is a legislative and institutional mechanism for Arab youth empowerment.
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Arab Countries - General Principles for Political Parties Legislation in the Arab Countries
[English][Arabic]. 2009
This pamphlet includes a set of guiding principles for political party legislation in the Arab region which were debated and adopted by the Working Group on Parliament and Reform of Political Parties Legislation, launched by the UNDP’s Parliamentary Development Initiative in the Arab Region (PDIAR). Members of the Working Group were comprised of more than 40 parliament members from: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and Yemen, in addition to researchers and experts on the topic. These guiding principles could serve as a basis for reviewing current legislation or drafting new political party laws in the Arab Region. They could also contribute to the institutional development of political parties within a functioning democratic governance system, and reinforce political participation as well as political pluralism.
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Arab Countries - Greater Arab Free Trade Zone, 4 years After Implementation
[Arabic]. 2001
Implementing the 4th of the gradual reduction of customs, tariffs and taxes.
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Arab Countries - Internal Organization of the Legislative Branch
[English].
A United Nations Development Programme review of the legislative functions of representation, lawmaking and oversight.
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Arab Countries - Leading to Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women
[English][Arabic][French]. 2002
This Handbook was drafted by the Women’s Learning Partnership For Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP), the Association Démocratique des Femmes du Maroc (ADFM), BOABAB for Women’s Human Rights of and the Staff for Palestinian Women Issues. The Handbook deals with a new form of vertical leadership and democracy which contributes to women empowerment and discusses many important topics, particularly: developing the self for leadership capacities, communicating with other and building learning partnerships.
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Arab Countries - Legislative Drafting for Democratic Social Change: A Manual for Drafters
[Arabic]. 2005
This guide is coauthored by Robert B. Seidman, Ann Seidman, and Nalin Abeyesekere. UNDP funded its translation to Arabic. It aims to provide guidance to the legislators during the technical procedure of legislation. It highlights several important topics such as the relation between the legislative drafting, good governance, and the process of development. It discusses the technique for preparing a research report, and methods for drafting a draft law. The guide also sheds light on the role of legislative drafting in promoting good governance.
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Arab Countries - Parliament in the Arab Countries - Monitoring and Analyzing
[Arabic]. 2007
This book delves into the status of parliaments in each of Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Egypt. This project was implemented by the Arab Center for the Development of the Rule of Law and Integrity (ACRLI) in cooperation with the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES) and the United Nations Development Programme - Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (UNDP-POGAR).
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Arab Countries - Parliament, the Budget and Gender
[English][Arabic][French]. 2004
This guide, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the World Bank Institute and the United Nations Fund for Women, discusses some of the basic concepts and issues in budgeting, the budget process and the budget as a tool for accountability. It also provides a gender perspective on the budget and suggests ways to strengthen legislative participation in this domain.
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Arab Countries - Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector: Principles, Mechanisms and Practices
[English][Arabic][French]. 2003
This handbook was prepared by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. UNDP funded its translation and publication in Arabic. It deals with the evolving concept of security and the oversight role that parliament plays in this sector, as well as the stages of national security policy cycle and the relevant international regulations. It also highlights the role of civil society and the media in security sector monitoring. The handbook provides an overview of the constituents of the security sector, as well as the tools and instruments that parliaments can use to oversee this sector. It focuses on three main aspects: defense budgeting, security sector personnel and procurement.
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Arab Countries - Parliamentary Reform
[English]. 2003
This book combines the proceedings of the 2nd annual conference of the Parliamentary Program of the Faculty of Economics & Political Science-
Cairo University that has been held in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Egypt. The topic of the conference was parliamentary reform, various papers were presented on related issues.
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Arab Countries - Reform of the Security Sector in the Arab States
[Arabic]. 2006
This paper, published by Aman-Palestine, analyzes the obstacles facing security sector reform in the Arab states such as emergency laws, and budgets. It concludes by highlighting areas of possible reform for example legislation.
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Arab Countries - Regional Strategies for Empowering Women
[English]. 2000
This report, published by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, describes women’s role in influencing legislation in the Middle East and North Africa region. It includes case studies about advancing women’s political participation in the region, reforming family laws, and strengthening women’s negotiation skills.
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Arab Countries - Role of Arab Parliaments in the Fight against Corruption: Realities and experiences from the Arab World
[Arabic]. 2005
This publication contains articles and studies that were written and presented during the constitutive meeting of ARPAC held in Beirut in November 2004 under the aegis of UNDP-POGAR.
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Arab Countries - Strengthening the Role of Women Parliamentarians in the Arab Region: Challenges and Options
[English]. 1999
Paper presented by Azza M. Karam. March, 1999 at the Meeting on Women and Political Participation: 21st Century Challenges, held in New Delhi, India, 24-26 March 1999.
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Arab Countries - The Convention Against Corruption in the Middle East and North Africa Region: The Role of Civil Society in Ensuring the Success of International Conventions
[Arabic].
This manual focuses on the United Nations Convention against Corruption, as well as on civil society's role in ensuring its success in the MENA region. The manual explains the purpose of the Convention, describes the means to encourage the process of national ratification and the mechanism of such ratification, dissociates implementation from monitoring between governments, and discusses the ways for civil society to handle the monitoring process.
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Arab Countries - The First Democratic Forum of Arab Women: The Political Empowerment of Women is the First Step towards Political Reform in the Arab World
[Arabic]. 2005
This publication, prepared by the Montada Al Shaqeq Al Arabi for Human Rights, contains 18 working papers from various Arab States that were submitted during the first democratic forum of Arab women held in Yemen in 2004. These working papers deal with the political participation of Arab women in the various Arab countries by addressing the prevalent political regime, feminist movements, the extent to which women are represented in power and decision-making positions, the mechanism used in order to support the political participation of women, the .obstacles preventing women’s effective and efficient participation in politics, as well as the solutions proposed in order to overcome these obstacles.
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Arab Countries - The General Budget in the Arab Countries: Comparative Study on the Preparation, Approval, Implementation and Monitoring of the Budget in the Arab Countries
[English][Arabic]. 2005
This book, published by UNDP, defines the general budget, and sheds light on various aspects such as the budget’s history and development, principles of a good general budget, measures to promote the parliament’s role and the obstacles that limit the effectiveness of parliaments in this domain. The book also discusses methods of preparing the budget in the Arab countries, as well as approving, implementing, and performing auditing and oversight over its implementation. The book concludes by highlighting the final accounts process in different Arab countries.
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Arab Countries - The Rights and Duties of Members of Arab Parliaments: Comparative Study of Rules of Procedure of Arab Parliaments
[Arabic]. 2007
This book, published by UNDP’s Parliamentary Development Initiative, Presents a comparative overview of the rights and duties of Arab parliamentarians in the light of the Arab parliaments’ bylaws. The study discusses the sources of rights and duties of parliamentarians, members of parliaments’ right to join parliamentary committees, speak in general assemblies and committee meetings, and submit draft laws. The study also compares the Arab parliaments’ bylaws concerning parliamentarians’ oversight role of the executive power, parliamentary immunity, resignation, and their duties in attending parliamentary sessions.
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Arab Countries - The Role of Parliaments in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations: Comparative Study of Five Arab Countries
[English]. 2005
The present study aims at assessing the role of parliament in preventing, managing and resolving conflict. The assessment builds on field research conducted in four selected countries: Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Sudan and Yemen.
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Arab Countries - The Second and Third Democratic Gatherings: Women and Politics- Religious Insight- Problems and Solutions
[Arabic]. 2005
Within the scope of the women political empowerment project implemented by the Montada Al Shaqeq Al Arabi for Human Rights, three national democratic gatherings and an Arab regional forum were organized which discussed the issue of women political participation and empowerment from different perspectives. This publication includes the studies and researches that were discussed during the second and third gatherings. The second gathering aimed at clarifying the vision of Islam regarding the issue of women political participation in an attempt to fight the ideas claiming that Islam opposes women participation in public life and in public decision-making. The third gathering reviewed all of the studies that were discussed during the first and second gatherings, as well as a series of studies that tackled the issue of women political participation in the international law, in all the stages of the national fight against colonialism, and in the social fabric. It also provided visions and mechanism aimed at strengthening women’s role and overcoming the obstacles they come across.
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Arab Countries - Towards Developing Arab Parliamentary Work
[Arabic]. 2000
This book published by UNDP – POGAR, includes the proceedings of the Symposium on Arab Parliamentary Developmentheld in Beirut in 2000. The papers present a comparison between the Arab parliament’s regulations, as well as a comparison between their legislative functions. It also discusses the oversight role of Arab parliaments, and sheds light on the Lebanese parliamentary life. It also includes a plan for developing Arab parliamentary life, and highlights the challenges and possible domains for institutional development.
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Arab Countries - Towards Developing Legislative Drafting for Arab Parliaments
[Arabic]. 2003
This book, published by UNDP – POGAR, includes the proceedings as well as the final report, of the Workshop on Developing Legislative Drafting for Arab Parliaments, held in Beirut in 2003. Some of the topics discussed are: legislative drafting for good governance; Legislative drafting in Arab countries; methodologies, means and sources for producing legislative texts. It also focuses on the status of legislative drafting in Egypt, and suggests ways to improve legislation and make them clearer. The book concludes with the discussion of the pillars for an efficient and democratic legislative process.
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Arab Countries - Towards Strengthening the Role of Arab Parliaments in the Reform of Political Party Legislation
[English][Arabic]. 2009
This Publication includes the knowledge products of the Working Group on Parliaments and the Reform of Political Party Legislation. In addition to workshop reports, the publication includes the four regional studies that have been commissioned by UNDP on key issues affecting political party life such as party finance and internal organization. The book also includes the General Principles for Political Party Legislation in the Arab Region, around which, the members of the working group have reached a consensus.
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Arab Countries - Women are Citizens Too: The Laws of the States, the Lives of Women
[English].
Paper published by the UNDP Regional Bureau for Arab States discussing gender equality within the broader context of citizenship. It provides an analysis and understanding of the tremendous challenges and resistance faced concerning gender equality in the Arab region. The main areas of focus are related to the family, social security, and nationality laws.
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Arab Countries - Women in Islamist Movements: Toward an Islamist Model of Women's Activism
[English][Arabic]. 2007
Through interviews and conversations with women belonging to Lebanon’s Hizballah, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, and other Islamist organizations across numerous Arab nations, the authors found an energetic debate among women activists on their newfound role as political actors.
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Arab Countries - Women’s Political Participation: Meeting on Women and Political Participation - 21st Century Challenges
[English]. 1999
By Azza M. Karam.
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GCC - Women and Chambers of Commerce: Cases from The Gulf
[English]. 2003
This case study, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), examines experience of countries in the Gulf region that have tried to integrate women into chambers of commerce and industry. It also explores some examples of innovative projects and initiatives that have been undertaken to encourage women to participate more effectively in their national economies.
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GCC - Women in Gulf Politics: A Progress Report
[English]. 2005
Women’s political rights, previously nonexistent in the conservative Arab Gulf states, have undergone extraordinary growth in recent years. The author ponders the question of how much progress has actually been achieved, considering that women's representations in the Gulf States are even poorer than those in other Arab countries, and how much influence can the US have on this process?
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International - A Comparative Analysis of Security Sector Governance in West Africa: The Ghana Case.
[English]. 2005
This paper, published by Frederich Ebert Stiftung, analyzes the manner in which the statutory and non-statutory institutions that form the security sector is governed in Ghana. It provides a historical background and discusses the characteristics of Security Sector, as well as an overview of the legal and institutional frameworks involved. The paper highlights the low level of female involvement in this sector, and the need to re-enforce it.
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International - A Guide to Legislative Research on the Internet: An Introduction to Parliamentary and Policy Oriented Web Sites
[English]. 2000
A guide published by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) providing information on methods to use the internet for legislative research. It provides a list of search engines and websites on a diverse set of topics including constitutions, legislature, general research, ethics, and international treaties.
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International - A Media Guidebook for Women: Finding Your Public Voice
[English][Arabic]. 2005
This guidebook jointly produced by NDI-USAID, is designed to help women in dealing and benefiting from media to get media recognition for their cause. the handbook provides useful information on how to plan a media strategy, and how to use the different media options such as printed media, electronic media, audio-visual media as well as how to prepare for interviews, press releases speeches and presentations, and public speaking.
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International - A Parliamentarians’ Handbook On The Small Arms Issue
[English][French]. 2004
Study published by The Association of European Parliamentarians for Africa.
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International - A Training for Trainers Manual. Nominating for Change: Strengthening Women's Position in Political Parties
[English]. 2003
This manual is based on a Training of Trainers workshop “Nominating for Change: Strengthening Women’s Position in Political Parties” delivered by NDI. It aims at supporting other programs, which promote women’s political participation – through the nomination process or otherwise. It was prepared as a Training of Trainers tool to prepare participants to deliver workshops that help increase women’s skills to get themselves nominated by their political parties.
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International - Access to Aerial Waves: Principles on the Freedom of Speech and Broadcasting Laws
[Arabic]. 2002
Within the scope of the international campaign for freedom of speech, this publication presents a series of principles and criteria on the means to strengthen and protect independent broadcasting, and put such broadcasting at the service of public interest. These principles also deal with the means to organize work so as to serve the public interest and thus, prevent such work from becoming a controlling tool between the hands of government. Moreover, this publication tackles the need expressed by organizers to prevent commercial interests from predominating in the broadcasting system and guarantee the realization of the public interest. It also sets out criteria related to the media coverage of elections.
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International - Advancing Women's Leadership
[Arabic]. 2007
This training manual, translated by NDI, was designed to expand opportunities for women’s grassroots leadership. The manual covers leadership topics such as appreciative inquiry, experiential learning, conflict resolution and teambuilding. It also provides training techniques for using interactive, learner-centred methods and designing, implementing and evaluating participatory training. The resource section includes clear descriptions of leadership related concepts, as well as skills, tools, training methods and activities. It could be of interest to adult educators, community organizations, groups working with women, youth and organizations that wish to strengthen in-house training skills.
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International - Analysing Legislation: How to Read Bills Critically
[English][Arabic]. 1997
This National Democratic Institute (NDI) handbook discusses the simple techniques that parliamentarians can use to better understand proposed legislations. In particular, these methods focus on determining the major issues of policy contained in a bill; identifying the problems or issues that a bill addresses; and analyzing the solutions it proposes.
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International - Analyzing Budgets with a Gender Perspective
[English]. 2007
This presentation, published by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), explains the terms used in gender mainstreaming work such as gender analysis; gender budgeting, gender equality and gender equity. It describes the gaps existing in gender equality and comparative strategies employed by governments to address them. The presentation also includes steps on implementing gender based programming and policy recommendations on overcoming gender disparities.
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International - Assessing the Power of the Purse: An Index of Legislative Budget Institutions
[English]. 2006
This paper compares parliamentary capacity for financial scrutiny, through constructing an index using data for 36 countries on budgeting procedures. The index captures six institutional prerequisites for legislative control, relating to amendment powers, reversionary budgets, executive flexibility during implementation, the timing of the budget, legislative committees and budgetary information. Various methods of index construction are reviewed, and the comparative results are analyzed.
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International - Assessing the Quality of Democracy: A Practical Guide
[English]. 2008
A guide published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). The guide provides the means for a comprehensive assessment of democracy on a national level led by governments or civil society and academic institutions, rather than depending solely on conventional measures such as external country rankings and elections.
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International - Assessing Women’s Political Party Programs: Best Practices and Recommendations
[English]. 2008
Assessment published by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) designed to identify effective approaches towards encouraging women's participation and leadership in political parties. The assessment is intended as a roadmap for both individuals and organizations towards achieving that end.
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International - Breaking Failed-State Cycle
[English]. 2008
This paper published by RAND, examines failed states and methods of rescuing them, through providing an integrated approach. It identified the difficulties and attempted to provide solutions mainly to policy makers and legislators.
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International - Budget and Finance Glossary
[Arabic]. 2000
This budget and Finance Glossary is published by NDI and USAID.
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International - Budgeting for Equity: Gender Budget Initiatives Within a Framework of Performance Oriented Budgeting.
[English]. 2003
A Handbook published by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) discussing the tools needed to determine the impact of government budgets on both sexes. It provides insight into performance-oriented budgeting from a gender perspective. It also includes a model on the means to attain better gender awareness in budget planning..
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International - Budgeting for Women's Rights: Monitoring Government Budgets for Compliance with CEDAW
[English]. 2006
The report published by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) aims to provide ideas that may be useful in monitoring the compliance of government budgets with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), including the means by which gender budget analysis may assist in monitoring compliance with CEDAW.
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International - Building Open and Honest Government: Anti-Corruption Tools
[English].
This paper, published by Transparency International Slovakia, discusses corruption in transition countries. It examines the reasons behind the widespread of corruption, and methods to curb it.
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International - Campaign Schools for Women and Youth: Candidate’s Handbook
[English].
A handbook published by the International Republic Institute (IRI) describing a training course for women and youth candidates. It includes aspects ranging from the leadership qualities and attributes of candidates to aspects such as securing campaign funding and finances, membership mobilization, and media relations.
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International - Candidate Training Manual for Women: Training Manual for Civil Society Organizations
[English]. 2005
Training manual published by National Democratic Institute (NDI) designed for trainers of women candidates running for office at the local and national levels. Background information and guidelines are provided on securing party funding, campaign plan and message development, and constituency outreach.
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International - Challenges of the Security Sector Governance
[English]. 2003
This study, published by DCAF, discusses the various challenges facing security sector reform, and sheds special light on violence against women as one of these challenges.
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International - Civil Society and the Security Sector
[English]. 2006
This book, published by DCAF, analyses the role of civil society in the reform and oversight of the security sector governance in post-communist countries as a key aspect of the transition towards democracy. It presents the reader with the theoretical and conceptual background against which the potential role of civil society in security sector governance can be understood and assessed and sheds light on 9 country case studies
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International - Code of Conduct for the Ethical and Professional Observation of Elections
[English]. 1997
Handbook published by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) setting forth a universal code of conduct for the ethical and professional discharge of election observation activities, while also outlining the behavior and practice expected of observers.
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International - Committees in Legislatures: A Division of Labor
[English][Arabic]. 1996
The paper published by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) highlights the importance and responsibilities of legislative committees. It also describes the various types of legislative committees and the regulations governing each.
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International - Conflict and a Gendered Parliamentary Response
[English]. 2006
Article, Published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), advancing the argument that parliaments experiencing situations of crisis or recovery are presented with an opportunity to integrate a gender perspective into their core functions. Within the article is the argument that men and women are differently affected by conflict and hence a gender-sensitive approach is required to understand the differing needs of women and men in crisis situations and recovery processes.
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International - Consolidated Response on How to Promote a Gender Equality Policy Within a Political Party
[English]. 2008
This consolidated response, published by IKNOW Politics, analyses what a gender equality policy means and the key steps as well as concrete measures for developing a political party gender equality policy.
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International - Consolidated Response: Eliminating Violence Against Women In Politics
[English]. 2007
Consolidated response published by the International Knowledge Network of Women in Politics (iKNOWpolitics) addressing violence against women in politics. The main questions raised were on the frequency and sources of such violence, how to reduce such violence and whether any measures have been put in place towards that end such as legislations, policies, or programmes. The ways in which violence against women in politics manifests itself in different cultural contexts is also tackled.
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International - Constitutional and Parliamentary Information
[English][French]. 2006
This review is published by the Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments (ASGP), a consultative body of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. The review contains monographs on the organization and functioning of Parliaments, comparative reports of the Association of Secretaries General of Parliaments, as well as, whenever possible, texts of new national Constitutions and Standing Orders of Parliaments.
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International - Constitutional Provisions and Enhancing Participation of Women in Elections
[English]. 2004
Paper published by the United Nations Office of the Special Advisor on Gender Issues and the Advancement of Women (OSAGI) discussing the participation of women in post-conflict countries. It examines the obstacles they face in their efforts to participate in elections. The paper also describes the legislative measures taken to enhance the participation of women in several countries, however, it also delineates that the difficulties are hardly experienced at the constitutional level as women generally have the right to vote, but rather at the implementation level.
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International - Contemporary Challenges for the Intelligence Community
[English][Arabic]. 2006
This Backgrounder was prepared by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF). UNDP funded its translation and publication in Arabic. It sheds light on the changes occurring in the strategic environment and the different actors concerned. It also discusses the implications of these changes on intelligence services, highlights ways in which these issues can be addressed and sets the priorities in facing the recent and current changes and challenges.
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International - Controlling Corruption: A Parliamentarian's Handbook. Second Edition.
[English]. 2000
This handbook, produced jointly by the Parliamentary Centre of Canada and the World Bank, provides a practical referance tool to parliamentarians, members of civil society, and other interested individuals on the issue of globalized corruption and the role of parliaments and parliamentarians in controlling it.
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International - Creation of a Parliamentary Research Centre
[English]. 2000
Overview of the Cameroon experience in developing a parliamentary research center by M. Alim Garga, Centre for Parliamentary Research, National Assembly, Yaoundé, Cameroon
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International - Decentralization, Local Power and Women’s Rights: Global Trends in Participation, Representation and Access to Public Services
[English]. 2008
Summary report on the outcomes and recommendations of a conference sponsored by the International Development Research Center (IDRC) on women's political participation and access to public services within a decentralization framework. It highlights the impact of decentralization on excluded groups, including women, and offers recommendations on strategies and policies related to decentralization and local government.
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International - Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflict
[English]. 1998
The handbook, published by IDEA, provides practical advice on how to broker peace in countries emerging from deep-rooted conflict and outlines options negotiators can draw upon when trying to build or rebuild democracy. The handbook provides a thorough overview of democratic levers - such as power-sharing formulas, questions of federalism and autonomy, options for minority rights, constitutional safeguards and many others.
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International - Democracy, Conflict and Human Security: Pursuing Peace in the 21st Century (Volume 1)
[English]. 2006
This IDEA publication tackles questions on how democracies can deliver social and economic rights, include all citizens in decision making and reduce poverty. It explores ways in which democratic practice can contribute to the management of contemporary conflicts and promote the realization of security and development objectives. It is aimed at different stakeholders concerned with problems such as social exclusion, the quality of democracy and new forms of authoritarian regimes.
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International - Democratic Dialogue: A Handbook for Practitioners
[English]. 2007
This study, published jointly by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), International IDEA, the Organization of American States (OAS), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) aims to provide decision-makers, dialogue promoters and practitioners with a practical guide on how to organize, facilitate and assess dialogue processes. It combines conceptual and practical knowledge, while providing practitioners with an extensive repertoire of relevant tools, experiences and approaches adapted to the issue at stake, the local context and the stakeholders involved.
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International - Democratic Governance and Gender: Possible Linkages
[English]. 2004
Document published by the United Nations Women and Development Unit - ECLAC on democratic governance and gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean. It tackles numerous dimensions including trends in women participation in the legislature, participation of women in women movements to develop new constitutions, women's participation in state reform, and policies for increasing women participation in representative offices.
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International - Democratizing Security in Transition States
[English]. 2006
This publication, jointly edited by UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre and DCAF (Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces), is based on recommendations from a 2005 CIS Parliamentary Roundtable and is intended to be a substantive tool for parliamentarians, civil society institutions and donor governments interested in furthering democratization of the security sector.
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International - Designing an Effective Campaign Plan - Partners in Participation - Women's Campaign Initiative
[Arabic]. 2003
This handbook, prepared by NDI, aims at identifying the basic pillars for an electoral campaign and the candidate's role in it such as team building, recruiting volunteers, campaign planning, fundraising, communication, and what is to be done on election day.
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International - Designing for Equality: Best-fit, Medium-Fit and Non-Favourable Combinations of Electoral Systems and Gender Quotas
[English]. 2007
A guidebook published by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) providing an overview of how electoral systems function with different quotas for women. It assesses how women's representation can be increased under different combinations of electoral systems and quotas.
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International - Documenting Women’s Rights Violations By Non-State Actors
[English]. 2006
This manual, provides tools to human rights activists and defenders who investigate violence perpetrated against women by non-state actors. Its goal is to offer guidance with regard to the legal definitions and human rights protection mechanisms that may help them compel States to fulfill their obligation to protect. It presents concrete examples of particular forms of violence committed against women by non-state actors and models of strategies that have been used effectively, particularly in Muslim communities.
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International - Drafting Gender-Aware Legislation: How to Promote and Protect Gender Equality in CEE and CIS
[English]. 2003
A handbook published by the United Nations Development Programme providing a comparative overview on gender-aware legislation and practice in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth Independent states. The handbook also describes a comprehensive approach to influencing legislation processes and a detailed checklist for the analysis of such processes.
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International - Elaborating the Gender Dimension of Democratic Governance
[English]. 2006
The training guide, published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), focuses on a human rights-based approach to democratic governance as a framework for women's empowerment and the need for development cooperation to ensure gender equality in areas relating to parliament, electoral systems, and public administration.
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International - Empowering Parliaments through the use of ICTs
[English]. 2006
A feasibility study conducted by the United Nations Development Program on empowering parliaments on the global and local levels through the use of ICTs as related to legislation, representation, and oversight. The study delineates the inherent difficulties and indicates that e-parliaments are still in the infancy stage even in developed countries. Developing countries on the other hand face greater challenges ranging from access and connectivity to democratization and governance.
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International - Engendering Constitutions: Gender Equality Provisions in Selected Constitution
[English]. 2007
This study provides analysis of global best practices of engendered constitutions using CEDAW as an analytical framework. It also analyzes existing or in some cases, draft constitutional .texts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia according to CEDAW provisions and reviews political party platforms for commitment to gender.
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International - Engendering Macroeconomics and Macroeconomics Policies
[English]. 1998
Article published by UNDP discussing the significance of gender in formulating macroeconomic policies. It explains the effects of gender-biased policies in producing gender inequalities at the micro level which in turn results in macroeconomic implications. It also highlights UNDP's efforts in the area of gender and macroeconomics.
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International - Enhancing Women's Participation in Electoral Processes in Post-Conflict Countries: Report of the Expert Group Meeting Jan. 2004
[English]. 2004
Report published by the United Nations Special Office on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women (OSAGI). It includes discussions and recommendations by an expert group from OSAGI in the Department of Social and Economic Affairs (DESA), jointly with the Department of Political Affairs in the United Nations. The discussions mainly centered around electoral processes in post-conflict countries, while the recommendations mainly focused on incorporating gender perspectives into election phases in post-conflict countries.
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International - Equal Participation of Women and Men in Decision-Making Processes, with Particular Emphasis on Political Participation
[English]. 2005
This paper, published by the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women, describes issues relevant to women's political participation, representation and leadership. It describes strategies to address the disparity between men and women, gender mainstreaming as a cross-cutting strategy, globalization, and women's mobilization strategies.
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International - Evaluating Parliament: A Self-Assessment Toolkit For Parliaments
[English][Arabic][French]. 2008
This toolkit, published by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), provides practical tools that parliaments can use to assess their democratic performance, thus helping parliaments identify their points of strengths and weaknesses, and prioritizes the areas that need further development. Topics highlighted are: the representativeness of parliament; parliamentary oversight over the executive; parliament’s legislative capacity; the transparency and accessibility of parliament; the accountability of parliament; parliament’s involvement in international policy.
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International - Explaining Women’s Representation: The Role of Legislative Recruitment & Electoral Systems
[English]. 2005
Paper published by the United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (UN-DAW). It examines the essential steps involved in being elected to countries' parliaments. It also examines the impact of a certain country's level of development, culture, and electoral system on the representation of women.
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International - Final Report: Political Party Strategies to Combat Corruption Workshop
[English]. 2002
This report, published by NDI and The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD), includes the proceedings of the workshop titled “Political Party Strategies to Combat Corruption.” The workshop consisted of presentations on the environment in which parties function, the advantages and disadvantages of external legislation, and political party reform strategies and discussed various reform tactics.
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International - For Ourselves-Women Reading The Qur'an
[English]. 2004
This paper reflects the diverse voices of women who interpret the Qur'an and engage with it in the context of their lived realities. It describes the many challenges to monolithic, often male-dominated interpretations of the Qur'an and Muslim laws.
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International - Freedom of Information and Access to Government Record Laws Around the World
[English][Arabic]. 2006
This guide, published by the freedominfo.org, is a part of a series of continuous survey of the freedom of information and access to government record laws around the world.
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International - From Exclusion to Equality Realizing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
[English]. 2007
Handbook for parliamentarians on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with disability.
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International - Fundraising Tactics for Women
[English]. 2006
A handbook published by the IRI Women's Democracy Network on fundraising tactics for women. The guide follows logical steps such as planning, research and donor or sponsor identification in the initial phase. It moves onto the methods for formulating a strategic plan in the case of an organization and a tactical plan on an individual basis. Various sources of funding are also highlighted.
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International - Gender and Security Sector Reform Toolkit
[English]. 2008
Toolkit intended for policy-makers providing a practical introduction on the significance and means of integrating gender issues into security reform. It contains 12 chapters mainly on the reform of defense, justice and penal system, police and border management, and on parliamentary and civil society oversight of the security sector. The toolkit is published by UN-instraw and the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
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International - Gender Budget Initiatives: Strategies, Concepts and Experiences
[English]. 2001
This paper, published by UNIFEM, brings together the insights and analysis from the 2001 International Conference on Gender Budget Initiatives in Belgium. It presents the collective experience, analysis and evaluation of more than a dozen international experts on concepts and tools as well as country level experiences..
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International - Gender Equality for Development Effectiveness
[English]. 2008
This paper describes experiences of the CIS countries with integrating gender equality in national policies and budgets. It includes recommendations on improving gender analysis throughout national plans, strengthening links between policy and budgets, improving statistical development, and increasing national civil service capacities.
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International - Gender in Electoral Processes and Systems
[English]. 2004
The Presentation published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) offers recommendations to improve gender sensitivity in electoral processes, outlines legal and institutional frameworks, and lists various means of encouraging political mobilization and participation.
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International - Gender Indicators Manual
[Arabic]. 2004
This manual, published by the United Nations Development Fund For Women (UNIFEM), is part of the leading training manuals aimed at building the capacities of the persons working in statistics departments and provides gender indicators in priority areas of concern. Indeed, indicators are an essential means enabling planners and decision-makers to measure gender inequalities. These indicators also provide the necessary information used by gender statistics experts to claim policies that lead to effective gender equality. This manual is intended to train the concerned parties or those who might join working groups commissioned to draw up gender statistics in their countries, introducing statistical saff and users to the various elements constituting gender issues, and training male and female participants to analyze and present gender statistics.
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International - Gender Mainstreaming in Parliaments: International Best Practices
[English]. 2005
Paper Published by ONA-UNDP that serves as a guide for parliamentarians to facilitate gender mainstreaming into the main functions of parliament such as representation, oversight, and legislation. It also highlights emerging gender issues within these areas and ways to integrate them through a gender perspective.
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International - Gender Responsive Budgeting and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Resource Pack
[English]. 2006
This resource pack, published by UNIFEM/UNFPA, provides relevant knowledge to facilitate mainstreaming gender-responsive approaches into reproductive health programmes, and the inclusion of specific aspects of gender inequality and disadvantage into national policy frameworks. It focuses primarily on health, particularly reproductive health; on HIV/AIDS; and on violence against women as it relates to health services.
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International - Gender Responsive Budgeting in Education
[English]. 2005
This paper, published by Oxfam, uses the gender-responsive budgeting approach to explain how governments and donors can promote gender equality in education through their decisions on financing.
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International - Gender Responsive Budgeting in Practice: A Training Manual
[English]. 2006
The training manual on gender responsive budgeting (GRB) is intended to build the capacity of UNFPA and UNIFEM staff in applying gender budget analysis tools in their programming around gender equality and women’s rights, it will also assist them in supporting gender budget initiatives wherever they exist. The manual specifically seeks to build understanding of GRB as a tool for promoting gender equity, accountability to women’s rights as well as efficiency and transparency in budget policies and processes.
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International - Gender Responsive Budgeting: Manual for Trainers
[English]. 2005
This United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) manual specifically seeks to build understanding of gender responsive budgeting as a tool for promoting gender equity and transparency in budget policies and processes. This version of the Manual has a specific reference to Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS region.
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International - Genderware – The Council of Europe and the Participation of Women in Political Life
[English]. 2003
This paper, published by the Council of Europe, provides a historical background on women political participation in Europe, and discusses some major themes such as: gender equality and democracy, equality through law, positive political action, young women political participation, and women's individual voting rights. the paper concludes by highlighting the importance of political parties as necessary vehicles for democracy.
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International - Global Capacity-Building Initiative for Parliaments on Sustainable Development
[English][French]. 2005
This publication is a report of the conference held by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in 2005, on parliamentary capacity-building in the field of sustainable development. Experts and legislators from over 70 countries discussed the role that parliaments and parliamentarians can play in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals and in advancing the agenda for sustainable development.
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International - Guidebook for Implementing Legislative Programs
[English]. 2000
This Guidebook is intended to assist staff implementing legislative programs in developing democracies. Some of the topics discussed are: the training methods; training the members of the legislature in effective committees, overs |