Capacity Building

In Pakistan, where instability, distrust, violence and political rivalries can impede interaction among political parties, women and young people — the majority of the population — often have difficulty making their voices heard.

In July 2008, NDI organized the inaugural MENA Regional Young Women Leaders Academy in Doha, Qatar, which gathered together young women leaders from the Middle East and North Africa.

THE Jamaica Women's Political Caucus (JWPC), through its Institute for Public Leadership (IPL) programme, has organised a training seminar for active and aspiring women in politics.

In a move to enhance political capabilities of women, a United Nations body is launching an online course in political leadership in September.

On Friday, Jan. 8, about 100 women assembled at Brooklyn College for a daylong political training event designed by the White House Project. The Go Lead training day was the culminating event of a partnership between The White House Project and Brooklyn College.

In a bid to lend support to the process of electoral reform in Tunisia as preparations get under way for the election of a Constituent Assembly on 24 July 2011, the IPU dispatched an expert mission to the country from 22 to 24 March 2011.