STEP Democracy

(STEP Democracy - 8 March 2019)

Today--International Women’s Day--is a great opportunity to reflect on the situation of women’s political participation in Myanmar. In a country where women make up 52 percent of the population, women only account for approximately 10 percent of the overall MPs in both the national and regional legislatures. Women face many constraints when it comes to political participation in Myanmar: unequal access to decision-making, unequal access to knowledge and financial resources, limited opportunities within political party structures and the threat of violence and discrimination, among others. Read More

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ရန္ကုန္စည္ပင္သာယာေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဥပေဒမူေဘာင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြႏွင့္အတူ ျမန္မာတႏုိင္ငံလံုးမွ စည္ပင္သာ ယာေရးအဖြဲ႕မ်ားတြင္ ဗဟုိခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္မႈေလ်ာ့ခ်ႏုိင္ေရးအတြက္ ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္လ်က္ရွိသည္။ Read More

As Yangon concludes its municipal level electoral reforms, Myanmar also continues on its path to decentralization in municipalities across the country. Read More

ဒီမိုုကေရစီကိုုဦးတည္ေသာ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးလမ္းေၾကာင္းတြင္ ရန္ကုုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္သည္ စီမံခန္႔ခြဲမႈဆံုုခ်က္အျဖစ္ အေရးၾကီးေသာ ေပါင္းကူးေနရာတြင္ ရွိေနပါသည္။ Read More

Yangon is at a critical juncture on its path towards democracy as its administrative body, the Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC), is preparing for the first ever fully democratic municipal elections in Myanmar early next year. With the introduction of universal suffrage in June this year, Read More

လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ား၏ လုုပ္ငန္းယႏၱယားႏွင့္ တရားဝင္မႈ ေသခ်ာေစရန္အလိုု႔ငွာ လစ္လပ္ေနေသာ ေနရာမ်ားအတြက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားကိုု ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမွာက္ႏိုုင္ရန္ ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ အေရးၾကီးေသာလုုပ္ငန္းအစိတ္အပိုုင္း တစ္ခုုအေနႏွင့္ရွိေနပါသည္။ Read More

By-elections are of great importance to a representative and credible democracy as seats need to be filled to ensure the legitimacy and function of Myanmar’s various parliaments. Read More

ႏိုုဝင္ဘာလ ၃ရက္ေန႔ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မက်င္းပမီ ေရွ႕သိုု႔ျမန္မာ အစီအစဥ္ (STEP Democracy) ၏ မိတ္ဖက္အဖြဲ႔မ်ားသည္ ျမန္မာနိုုင္ငံတစ္ဝွန္းရွိ မဲဆႏၵနယ္ ၁၃ နယ္မွ ေဝးလံေခါင္သီေသာေဒသ ၁၇ ခုုတြင္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္အသိပညာေပးေရးမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ Read More