GWD's Delegation of Women Mayors and Local Leaders is currently traveling in Bogota for the United Cities and Local Governments 2016 Conference and heading to Quito for the Habitat III Conference. Follow their engagement on Twitter by following @NDIWomen or #NDIWoMNCities. >>

GWD Director Sandra Pepera participated in this event to see how supporting women can strengthen conflict transformation. The event coincided with USIP's October 6 release of a Special Report on women’s roles in non-violent struggles. With the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) and the non-profit organization Just Vision, USIP gathered path-breaking activists, scholars and filmmakers to examine how women’s participation—and the success of non-violent campaigns—can be strengthened.>>

With democracy struggling in many countries, providers of democracy support are looking to tailor assistance strategies to respond to the growing variety of troubled transitional contexts. Aiding women’s political empowerment—a crucial area of international aid for democracy as well as for development more generally—shares this challenge. NDI and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace co-hosted a symposium with Tom Carothers, Anne Marie Goetz, Neil Levine, and Sandra Pepera of Carother's latest paper, written in cooperation with NDI. Keep an eye out for recorded audio on CIEP's website.>>

Electoral violence subverts basic standards for democratic elections, which are a cornerstone of democratic governance. Violence against women in elections is a particular form of electoral violence, motivated by a desire to prevent women as women from participating in the electoral process, and which sees women attacked for daring to enter or participate in elections. GWD is proud to launch the Votes Without Violence toolkit on this issue, developed from NDI's collaboration with citizen observer groups around the world. It includes guidance and a set of practical tools and resources that can be used directly by observers and practitioners to monitor and mitigate electoral violence against women effectively. >>

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