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org/odihr/gender

Compendium
of Good Practices for Advancing
Women’s Political Participation
in the OSCE Region
Development of the Compendium
 Prepared by ODIHR to mark the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action.

 Lead drafter: Meg Munn, former Member of Parliament and former Minister for Women
and Equality of the United Kingdom.

 Discussed during ODIHR Expert Meeting in May 2015 in Warsaw, gathering gender
experts, politicians, MPs, academia, and civil society from across the OSCE region as
well as representatives of the CoE Gender Equality Commission.

 Reviewed by different organizations (Stockholm University, Russian Academy of Science,

Inter-Parliamentary Union, UN Women, European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE),
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, OSCE Field Operations and NGOs.
Beijing Platform for Action:
30 per cent of women in decision making
Top five barriers for
women and men to enter politics
Creating gender sensitive culture
inside political parties
Women and elections: barriers and solutions
Women and local politics
Women in parliaments: continuing challenge
Recommendations
Political parties

Elections

Local politics

Parliaments
• Promote gender • Institutionalize • Collect regular, • Introduce
action plans and gender analysis reliable and effectively
gender sensitive of electoral comparable formulated
structure and legislation and gender legislative and
processes. processes. disaggregated voluntary party
data. quotas.
• Promote • Consider
women’s active temporary • Address • Establish a
participation. special structural, gender
measures to socio-economic sensitive
• Equally asses increase the and political institutional
women and men number of barriers setting.
candidates women affecting
based on skills candidates. women’s • Engage civil
and qualities. participation; society and
• Consult media as
women’s NGOs • Guarantee partners in
and gender women friendly transforming
equality interest working the male
groups. environment. dominated
landscape of
parliaments.
The Compendium is:

• Available on ODIHR’s web page in English and

Russian language, at osce.org/odihr/gender

• Presented and disseminated in the upcoming

events.

• Used by OSCE structures, international/regional

organizations, MPs, politicians, gender
institutional mechanisms/governments, civil
society organizations, academia.
 Thank you!
Ajla van Heel
Gender Adviser
Ajla.vanHeel@odihr.pl

OSCE/ODIHR
Office for Democratic Institutions
and Human Rights

ul. Miodowa 10
00-251 Warsaw
Poland
www.osce.org/odihr/gender