Dr. Halimah DeShong, University Director at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, has spent her career researching and advocating for gender equality and women’s leadership in the...
Tangier, 22–25 June 2026 -The World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) was a landmark moment for advancing gender equality in local governance. Over 3,000 locally elected leaders met in Tangier, Morocco between...
Sanjolli Kumari Padhy is a human rights lawyer and youth advocate from India working with The YP Foundation – a feminist youth-led organization advancing health equity and gender justice in India that is a Commitment Maker for the...
What if the challenge is not to create new leaders, but to recognise where leadership is already happening? This question was at the heart of the WYDE Initiative session Rethinking Leadership from the Ground Up, held on 17...
Kenya’s Registrar of Political Parties, John Cox Lorionokou, joined ENoP and European democracy actors in Brussels for three days of exchange on political party regulation, democratic participation and regional cooperation. From...
On 6 August 2026, the EU WYDE Closing Workshop: “Celebrating and Shaping the Future of Democratic Participation” brought together young political leaders, mentors, facilitators and institutional partners in Accra, Ghana, to mark...
Time to act: Everyone has a role in making women’s leadership the norm Advancing women’s political participation needs to go beyond legal and policy reforms. Deeply rooted social norms continue to keep women out of political...
Invisible barriers: How social norms keep women out of leadership roles Despite growing evidence that women’s leadership improves political decision-making processes, parity between women and men in decision-making is far off...
On 21 July 2026, emerging political leaders gathered in Accra, Ghana, for the third and final session of the EU WYDE Mentorship Breakfast Series, centred on "Speaking with Influence: Public Speaking, Parliamentary Communication...
"Young people are not asking to be included in broken systems. We are ready to redesign them." From environmental justice to grassroots democracy, Karen Anyona believes political leadership begins by listening to communities and...
