Singapore, February 20, 2025 – Women legislators from Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Thailand, Ukraine, and the Philippines convened to share their experiences in security, defence, and peace – where women’s leadership remains underrepresented yet vital. Facilitated by the Parliamentary Centre,…
The project will identify in detail the current needs and capacity building gaps of the National Parliament of Timor Leste. Starting with a desk review, the needs assessment will involve the preparation and implementation of an assessment visit to Dili,…
Background To encourage and enable the participation of Rohingya in advancing reconciliation efforts and the crafting of the foundations of Myanmar’s inclusive democratic future, the Parliamentary Centre offers two capacity-building fellowships for young Rohingya leaders in Canada. The initiative is…
Q&A: Inclusive Democracy with Regional Director of Asia & Europe Ivo Balinov In this Q&A, the Parliamentary Centre’s Regional Director of Asia and Europe, Ivo Balinov, discusses how support for parliaments, and other democratic actors can help counter democratic backsliding…
The Parliamentary Centre organized a week-long knowledge exchange visit to Ottawa by a delegation from Mongolia comprising two parliamentary staff and the Deputy Auditor General of Mongolia. The group were members of a working group on amending the political party…
The project was successful in introducing members and staff of the country’s largest and most ethnically diverse sub-national parliament, the Shan State Hluttaw, to the value and methodology of gender-sensitive legislative research. Moreover, we facilitated the process of the Shan…
The Parliamentary Centre is proud to announce the launch of the project “Building Parliamentary Research Capacity: the case of Shan State’s sub-national Parliament in Myanmar”. The project will be carried out with the aid of a grant from Global Affairs…
Participation of ordinary citizens in decision-making processes is low in Indonesia, in particular women’s voices that remain largely absent from public forums. The “Our Voice” project, which used innovative SMS-polling technology to empower women to participate in localdecision-making, broke down…