Political Party Guidelines Eng

ENHANGING WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN ELECTIONS AND AS ELECTED
REPRESENTATIVES
Objective of the Gender
Action Plan
PRE-ELECTION
PERIOD:
To enhance women’s opportunities
to run for elected offices and
increase the amount of female
candidates in the party
To adopt measures to improve
female candidates’ access to political
finance and resources
Suggested Concrete Step of
Action
• Consider written rules/ guidelines
for candidate selection
within the party with transparent
rules for equal representation
• Consider setting up a candidate
recruitment committee that follows
the guidelines, and ensure
that the recruitment committee
has a gender balanced representation
• Train the candidate recruitment
committee on GE
• Consider establishing high
numerical quotas for final lists of
candidates and place women in
winnable constituencies
• Enforce possibly existing candidate
quota rules by election
bureau or party leadership in line
with the electoral timetable
• Identify incentives to attract
women and encourage them to
run as candidates
• Introduce transparent internal
rules on the allocation of political
party funds in campaigning
• Consider setting up fundraising
networks within your party to
support female candidates’ campaigns
• Consider creating a special internal
party fund for women’s campaigns
or providing subsidies to
female candidates
• Consider setting a limit for women
candidates on possible nomination
or primary contest expenditure,
collected by the party
Examples for Checklist
• Existence of transparent selection
system for lists of candidates
• The proportion of men and women
in candidate lists at State/Region
levels as well as township level
• Gender ratio of candidate-selection
panels
• Percentage of party funds allocated to
gender equality-related and female/
male candidates
• Party finances allocated to WWs
• Compliance with gender sensitive
allocation of public funding (direct
and indirect) for political parties and
electoral campaigns
• Existence of internal fund-raising initiatives
to support women candidates
• Allocation of internal subsidies to
women candidates, reduction of
nomination fees, etc.
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GUIDELINES FOR POLITICAL PARTIES IN MYANMAR