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Begoña Lasagabaster
Chief
Leadership and Governance
Political Participation
Women's full participation in the political
life of their countries is an essential
condition for democracy.
- Michelle Bachelet
Status of Women in Political Participation
IPU – UN Women Map was launched on March 2nd
[Data from IPU. See www.ipu.org for further details]
• Currently, women’s average representation is of 20.5% (it has
increased since the launch of the map)
• It has been 30 years since the CEDAW Committee. Since
then 33 countries have reached the 30% representation target
• Chambers:
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20 in Europe (5 of which are Nordic countries)
13 in Sub-Saharan Africa
13 in the Americas
4 in Asia-Pacific
• Elected women are less than 10% in 42 countries (and in 6
countries there is no women’s representation – down from 10)
• Out of the 33 countries that have reached 30% or more of women
in parliament, 30 have temporary special measures in place.
• Out of the 56 countries that held elections in 2011, 26 have
introduced special measures
• An average of 27.4% representation has been achieved in the 17
countries that have legislated electoral quotas
• The average representation is 15.7% in countries that have no
quotas at all
• 1/3 of the 30 countries that have reached the 30% target are in the
midst of democratic transition/post-conflict
UN Women’s Work on Political Participation
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Elections:
– National Elections: 31
– Local/Municipal Elections: 25
– Voter registration: 4
– Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs): 17
– Electoral law reform: 33
– Specific work on Temporary Special Measures (TSMs): 29
– Training capacity building for candidates: 29
– Civic education on elections: 6
– Ending Violence Against Women in Politics (EVAWiP): 10
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Women’s movements: 53
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Political Parties: 46
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Gender mainstreaming in Governments (such as Gender Responsive Budgeting, collaboration with other
ministries, gender mainstreaming of non-elected officials for example): 37
UN Women’s Work on Political Participation
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Gender mainstreaming in Governments (such as Gender Responsive Budgeting,
collaboration with other ministries, gender mainstreaming of non-elected officials for
example): 37
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Elections
– National Elections: 31
– Local/Municipal Elections: 25
– Voter registration: 4
– Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs): 17
– Electoral law reform: 33
– Specific work on Temporary Special Measures (TSMs): 29
– Training capacity building for candidates: 29
– Civic education on elections: 6
– Ending Violence Against Women in Politics (EVAWiP): 10
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Women’s movements: 53
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Political Parties: 46
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Media: 19
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Constitutional reform: 15
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Research on leadership and political participation (examples include Gender Responsive
Governance Index to measure improvement in women’s effective political leadership at
national and state levels, publications on gender and governance, etc.): 18
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Parliaments/Councils
– Law changes and policies: 21
– Training and capacity building: 43
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Youth: 13
• Electoral law
• Electoral
Management
bodies
• Electoral Justice
Collaboration between
Politicians, Civil Society
and Academia
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Monitoring of
communications
and media during
electoral
campaigns
• Opening up
dialogue to achieve
lasting change
Electoral
Systems.
M
Elected
Women
Real Gender
Equality Provisions
Constitutional
reforms
Media
• Women’s caucuses
• Building capacity
• Every law has an
impact on gender
• Women
in
all
committees
• Gender Unit
Parliament
-Including women in
the top echelons
-obtaining financing
at the opportune
moment
-Making equality part
of political parties
and organizations’
agenda (Women’s
manifestoes)
Political
Parties
Leadership
building
Capacity
Empowerment of
women at the
grassroots level in
terms of leadership
and political
participation.
INFORMATON
Accountability
Government
Civil
Society
• Working on the recording and
acquisition of women’s political
rights
• Representation of all society:
diversity.
• Participation of those women
who are most excluded
• Inter-generational dialogue,
training of young women.
Justice
• Women’s
National
Machinery
• Critical mass of
women
• Women in key
positions
• Gender
Budgeting
• Real implementation
of laws
• Building
judges’
capacity on gender
issues
• Women judges
Challenges
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Pressing need for data on local governance
– Why it matters:
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It is crucial for electoral assistance
The data is necessary in order to measure any sort of changes
It is also crucial in order to better understand the professional trajectories of female politicians, who
often come from local politics (although not just politics – from other forms of leadership such as
school boards, etc.)
Difficult balance to strike on the rationale behind women’s representation
– Balance to be struck between two perspectives:
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Intrinsic reason: women’s representation as a matter of human rights
Instrumental reason(s): what does an increase in women’s representation achieve?
– Must also consider the programming balance to be struck between
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Work that aims to increase the numbers of elected women
Work that aims to improve the quality of legislative decisions from a GE perspective
What should the advocacy agenda look like post 2015?
– What key measures should we advocate for to ameliorate democratic governance?
– What advocacy measures would be best suited to taking the debate towards talk of parity?