Political Party Guidelines Eng

To improve equality and inclusion
in your party membership base
To improve women’s participation in
your party’s governance structures,
also at the highest levels
To ensure that adequate levels of
power and resources are allocated to
your party’s Women’s Wing and that
it is included in decision-making
processes
• Assess the number of women
members of your political party
– if the membership base is not
disaggregated by gender, develop
methods to estimate the number
• If the proportion is low, plan
steps to include more women: for
example, campaigns to widen the
membership base, such as headhunting
and media campaigns
• Assess the current situation:
proportion of women in governance
structures and the level of
positions women are holding
• Make a plan/target for women’s
participation within your political
party structures
• Consider stipulating the planned
target in your party by-laws, for
example: “principal of 40” in the
party by-laws: in any committee,
work group, decision making
organ within your party there has
to be at least 40 % women or 40
% men
• Consider setting up a target also
for women’s participation in
party conventions
• Assess the role of your political
party’s WW within your party,
both at national and local levels
• Describe the defined roles and
responsibilities
• Consider ensuring appropriate
funding of the WW
• Integrate WW into your party’s
central decision-making processes
• Measure the proportion of women in
your party membership
• Assess the measures, which have
been taken, to increase the number
of women to participate in the political
party if needed
• Proportion of men/women party
members
• Existence of quotas in the party governance
structures at different levels
written in party by-laws
• Measure the proportion of women
in:
o National Executive Committee
and other internal governance
bodies
o women occupying leadership
positions in these bodies
o number of women participating
in party conventions
• Inclusion of the WW in the national
executive organ of your party
• Mandate/powers of the WW to
participate with full voting rights in
your party’s decision-making organs
• A clear mandate to develop and
propose improvements into the party
procedures and practices with the
view of promoting gender equality
• Amount/proportion of internal
financial resources allocated to the
WW in the annual budget
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