Analyze women’s pathways to participation across multiple levels of governance: national parliament, political parties, and social movements;state/division parliaments, government offices; anddistrict,…
Following an in-depth needs assessment of eight think tanks performed in December 2017, a highly customized capacity development program will be…
This podcast delves into issues of decentralization and democracy in Myanmar, a country with the world's longest running ethnic conflicts and…
Through design and delivery of training-of-trainers exercises, the Gender Equality Network (with support from AIT) strengthens gender-analysis capacities in research and…
February 13, 2020 News from IDRC website May Sabe Phyu has won an N-Peace Award from the United Nations Development Program.…
Many hurdles remain to achieve gender equality in Myanmar politics and society at large. Research supported by Canada’s Knowledge for Democracy Myanmar Initiative is identifying opportunities to close the gap.
The World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Gap Report assesses women’s empowerment across four dimensions: Economic Participation and Opportunity; Education Attainment; Health and Survival; and Political Empowerment. The latter one tends to be a very critical dimension to determine the size and direction of the gap. Political empowerment measures participation of women in parliament and the number of women ministers in the country. Within the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Philippines performs the best and Myanmar the worst, putting the country 114th in the global ranking of out of 153 countries.
July 8, 2020 Research in Action article from IDRC AREELUCK PHANKHIAN/ILOCOVID-19 has forced many migrant workers back to Myanmar from neighbouring…
Social scientists in Myanmar seeking to understand the factors that influence women’s participation in politics and the economy are finding that,…