Gender Equality and Law-making Training for Parliamentary Staff

As part of ODIHR’s support to parliaments in the OSCE region in becoming more gender-sensitive, the Office is co-organizing an action-oriented workshop for parliamentary staff tasked with supporting members of parliament, parliamentary working bodies and parliamentary political parties of the Jogorku Kenesh, the parliament of Kyrgyzstan.

The workshop aims to:

• Raise awareness about international standards, good practices and challenges in integrating a gender equality perspective into the parliament’s work, with a focus on law-making and oversight;
• Build the capacity of parliamentary staff to better support members of parliament and parliamentary committees in assessing legislation from the gender equality perspective.

The training will bring together 25 parliamentary staff (women and men), including middle management and those working for parliamentary committees and other working bodies.

Why is this important?

When parliamentary processes, regulations, mechanisms and organizational culture become more gender-sensitive, parliaments are better able to deliver for all women and men. Gender-sensitive parliaments are more representative, able to include a gender perspective in law-making and to ensure that gender is taken into account when conducting oversight of the executive. More information on the topic is available in ODIHR’s Realizing Gender Equality in Parliament guide, which features good practices from 46 national parliaments across the OSCE region.

Contact

In case of questions, please reach out to Sara Haapalainen, ODIHR’s Gender Adviser, sara.haapalainen@odihr.pl.