This brief gives an overview of the efforts by UN Women in East and Southern Africa, to enable women to fully and equally participate in decision- making and to ensure that women and girls benefit from gender responsive laws, policies, budgets, services, and accountable institutions. 

These guidelines are designed to support the full implementation of participatory gender audits of parliaments across the OSCE region.

This brief aims at engaging the University of Tirana to create, guarantee and promote a safe environment by preventing, reducing and eliminating any form of violence, harassment, sexual harassment and abuse of authority.

This toolkit brings together existing resources for digital security and tactics for preventing and handling online harms. It targets advice specifically for women elected leaders, activists, election consultants working with women’s campaigns, journalists, and the broader international women’s community.

The study shows how women politicians, compared to men, are more likely to experience violence that is not visible.

This report aims to identify how women politicians fare against their men counterparts on social media and to evaluate whether women in politics face greater challenges than men.

This study identifies the different forms of violence perpetrated against women in elected public office, running for office or politically active in the public sphere, and to make recommendations to reduce this phenomenon.

This paper tracks how women in politics are targets of gender-based violence, and who is targeting them, in view of the increasing trend in West Africa.

This study explores gender and masculinity within the Ukrainian security sector. The findings of the study will inform the development of policies that promote gender equality in the agencies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

This working paper provides an overview of women’s political participation at the local level, helping to shift the global narrative from national to local decision-making power, a less known but critical level of governance.

This report addresses findings regarding how to assess internal party practices that affect women candidates' access to party finance, and to identify challenges that women and men candidates face in parliamentary elections campaigning. 

This practical guide is intended to support the full range of parliamentary actors dealing with gender equality issues — in transforming these institutions into gender-sensitive parliaments.

This study aims to: (i) identify the main forms of VAWE that are facilitated or amplified by broadcast, print, online, and social media in Albania, and (ii) provide information on gender bias in media coverage during the elections.

The publication is a part of the 'Enhancing Women’s Political Participation campaign at the Subnational level' project, and aims to enhance public awareness about the need for full, equal, free and democratic participation of women on equal terms with men in political and public life.

This report has been prepared as part
of the project ‘Promotion of women in civil services and politics’. 

This report gives an understanding and assessment of the processes involved in promoting a gender-sensitive approach in the work of the political parties of the Kyrgyz Republic, and the role their members played in organizing a defined gender procedure.