New NDI Publication Evaluates Strategies for Women's Participation in Political Parties

Advancement within political parties – which are the gateway to political leadership – remains both essential to women’s political success and the most difficult political door for women to enter. In an effort to better understand effective approaches to women’s political party programs and to measure the impact of such programs, a new NDI publication -- Assessing Women’s Political Party Programs: Best Practices and Recommendations -- identifies specific effective elements and approaches that encourage women’s participation and leadership in political parties.

Assessing Women’s Political Party Programs is a blueprint for effective women’s political party programs. While drawn from NDI programs, the information gathered in this assessment is intended for use by individuals and organizations to help facilitate women’s political leadership worldwide.

The publication features four geographically representative countries where NDI has longstanding, continuously operating programs that offer comprehensive perspectives on program impacts and experiences. More than eighty interviews were conducted in Morocco, Indonesia, Serbia and Nepal, providing narratives that capture the context in each country while revealing how women across regions face common challenges to political leadership and can share strategies to overcome those barriers.