STEP Democracy

With Myanmars general election a little over two years away, now is the time for the Union Election Commission to analyse and review its existing processes, and suggest changes to the electoral management system. STEP Democracy partner International IDEA, is supporting a review of Myanmar’s Campaign Finance guidelines and Advance Voting regulations. Read More

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက်င္းပျပီးစီးသည္မွာ ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္လာျပီျဖစ္ရာ ျပည္ေထာင္စုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္အတြက္ လက္ရွိတည္ဆဲလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားအေပၚ ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ရန္ႏွင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲစီမံခန္႔ခြဲသည့္စနစ္ကို ေျပာင္းလဲမွဳမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ရမည့္အခ်ိန္ကာလသို႔ေရာက္ရွိလာျပီျဖစ္သည္။ ေရွ႕သို႔ျမန္မာအစီအစဥ္၏လုပ္ေဆာင္သူမိတ္ဖက္ International IDEA သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ မဲဆြယ္လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳဆိုင္ရာ ဘ႑ာေရးလမ္းညြႊန္ခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ ၾကိဳတင္မဲေပးျခင္းစည္းမ်ဥ္းမ်ားအား ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ရန္ ပံ့ပိုးေပးလ်က္ရွိပါသည္။ Read More

ယံုၾကည္စိတ္ခ်ရျခင္း၊ ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာမွဳရွိျခင္းႏွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီနည္းက်ျခင္းတို႔သည္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ား၏ အေျခခံစံႏွဳန္းမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ၂ဝ၁၅ ခုႏွစ္အေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ ၂ဝ၁၇ ခုႏွစ္ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ တို႔အား ေအာင္ျမင္စြာက်င္းပျပီးသည့္ေနာက္ ေဒသႏၱရေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ားက်င္းပႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ ဦးတည္လ်က္ရွိသည္။ Read More

Being credible, transparent and democratic are the basic standards of elections. Myanmar successfully held general elections in 2015 and by-elections in 2017, and attention is now turning to elections for municipal representatives across the country. Read More

ေလးႏွစ္တာကာလကုန္လြန္သြားပါျပီ။ ၂ဝ၁၅ ခုႏွစ္မွ ၂ဝ၁၈ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) အဖြဲ႔အေနျဖင့္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ပညာေပးသင္တန္းေပါင္း ၂ဝ၁ ခု၊ ျပည္သူ႔နီတိပညာေပးသင္တန္းေပါင္း ၇၇ ခုႏွင့္ လူထုပညာေပးဆရာျဖစ္သင္တန္း ၁ဝ ခုကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ရာ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္၊ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္၊ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ကယားျပည္နယ္၊ မြန္ျပည္နယ္၊ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္၊ ဧရာဝတီတိုင္းေဒသၾကီး၊ စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္းေဒသၾကီးႏွင့္ မေကြးတိုင္းေဒသၾကီးတို႔မွာရွိတဲ့ ေဝးလံေခါင္သီတဲ့ေဒသေတြကို လုပ္ငန္းမိတ္ဖက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားျဖစ္တဲ့ ေဒသခံအဖြဲ႔မ်ား၊ Naushawng Development Institute (NDI), Scholar Institute (SI), Hornbill Organization (HBO) ႏွင့္ Myanmar Egress (ME) စတဲ့အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြနဲ႔အတူ ဥေရာပသမဂၢရဲ႕ကူညီေထာက္ပ့ံမွဳနဲ႔လုပ္ေဆာင္လ်က္ရွိတဲ့ ေရွ႕သို႕ျမန္မာအစီအစဥ္အျဖစ္ သြားေရာက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ Read More

More than three years have passed! From 2015 to 2018, 201 Voter Education trainings, 77 Civic Education Trainings and 10 Trainings of Trainers for Community Civic Educators – to be counted – Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) went to exotic places, namely Chin, Kachin, Kayin, Kayar, Mon, Rakhine, Shan, Ayeyarwaddy, Sagaing and Magway, with its local partners, Naushawng Development Institute (NDI), Scholar Institute (SI), Hornbill Organization (HBO) and Myanmar Egress (ME) under the STEP Democracy Project funded by the European Union. Read More

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) အဖြဲ႔သည္ Myanmar Knowledge Society ႏွင့္အတူ Democratic Constitutions လက္စြဲစာအုပ္အား မတ္လအတြင္းက မိတ္ဆက္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ Knowledge Propagation Society (Mandalay)၊ မြန္ျပည္နယ္အရပ္ဖက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားကြန္ယက္ (ေမာ္လျမိဳင္)၊ ဧရာဝတီတိုင္းေဒသၾကီး အရပ္ဖက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားကြန္ယက္ (ပုသိမ္)တို႔ႏွင့္ပူးေပါင္းကာ အလုပ္ရံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမ်ားက်င္းပျပီးသည့္ေနာက္ မတ္လအတြင္းတြင္ လက္စြဲစာအုပ္တြင္ပါဝင္ေသာေခါင္းစဥ္တစ္ခုျဖစ္သည့္ “ဗဟုိမွခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္မွဳကိုေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္းႏွင့္ အာဏာခြဲေဝျခင္း” အမည္ရွိ ႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ပြဲတစ္ခုကိုက်င္းပကာ လက္စြဲစာအုပ္မိတ္ဆက္ျခင္းကို ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။ Read More

Together with the Myanmar Knowledge Society, Democracy Reporting International (DRI) published the Handbook on Democratic Constitutions in March. The Handbook was launched in a series of multi-stakeholder workshops held on decentralization and power sharing, key topics also covered in the Handbook. The series was hosted in partnership with the Knowledge Propagation Society (Mandalay), the Mon CSO Network (Mawlamyin) and the Ayeyarwaddy CSO network (Pathein). Read More

While Myanmar has held successful national elections in 2015 and 2017, municipal elections lag far behind. For example, the city of Yangon has yet to hold fully democratic elections and its electoral legal framework has not been updated since the colonial period. In this context, the workshop and drafting session on municipal electoral reform (26-27 October) held by STEP Democracy partner International IDEA as part of the EU-funded STEP Democracy project, represents a landmark in municipal electoral reform. Read More