Political Party Guidelines Eng

To ensure that women candidates
have strong capacities
• Guarantee access of women aspirants
and candidates to training
that helps them develop skills in
campaign fundraising and thematic
issues of concern to the
party, consider organising mentorship
training with experienced
politicians
• Consider training campaign
managers for women politicians
• The proportion of men and women in
aspirant and candidate trainings
• Number of training courses on women’s
political empowerment, gender
equality, and gender ratio of participants
ELECTION PERIOD:
To ensure equal access to media
campaigns
• Ensure women candidates have
equal access to media campaigns,
especially in party-funded advertising
• Nominate women candidates to
participate in public media debates
• The ratio of female and male candidates
with access to party-funded
television and radio advertising
To ensure women candidates’ safety • Consider taking safety measures
to ensure that women candidates
are able to campaign without
threat of violence or harassment,
also online
To activate women to vote and ensure
women are included as party
agents in polling stations and as
elections monitors
• Consider organising advocacy
campaigns so that women register
as voters and vote
• Train and nominate women as
party agents in polling stations
• Ensure that election monitoring
includes gender perspective and
safety of women candidates and
voters
• Train and include women as election
monitors
• Number of women candidates who
have faced violence or harassment
during campaigning is followed and
decreasing
• The ratio of female and male voters
• Election monitoring reports with
gender perspective
• Number of women as election monitors
and as party agents in polling
stations
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