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August 8, 2016

National Youth Policy under way in Myanmar

The work to formulate a new national youth policy in Myanmar has been kick-started and DIPD’s Myanmar Multiparty Democracy Programme (MMDP) ensure that political party youth are involved in the process. Myanmar plans to adopt a national youth policy in 2016. The policy formulation was initiated under the hundred-day plan of the Ministry of […]
June 22, 2016

DIPD supports political party youth’s contribution to the National Youth Forum

On 11-13 June 2016, 400 youth participants from more than 30 youth groups and networks gathered for the third Myanmar Youth Forum in Monwya. DIPD’s Myanmar Multiparty Democracy Programme sent a strong delegation of political party youth to contribute to the forum. “Not being assigned to any responsibilities and roles because of the worry that […]
May 24, 2016

DIPD and IDEA promote discussion of campaign and party finance reform

In the wake of the landmark November parliamentary elections in Myanmar, political parties, observers, and the Union Election Commission (UEC) have convened discussions to reflect on the successes and failures of those elections. While these elections represented an outstanding achievement, especially given the context in which they were held, numerous challenges remain to build a […]
May 20, 2016

Parties put women on the Myanmar agenda

While the global conference, Women Deliver, leaves Copenhagen, Myanmar’s parties continue to promote the role of women in politics. In the slipstream of the global Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen, DIPD invited Dr. Mya Thaung, Chairman of the Women & Children’s Rights Committee in Myanmar’s Upper House, and Dr. Khin Nyo, member of the Health and Sports […]
May 13, 2016

Annual Report 2015 – Postcards from the Field

Postcards are not long and detailed, but they highlight the excitement you feel when experiencing something unusual and memorable. This year we asked all our partners to tell one brief story for the Annual Report, to get a sense of what they think has made a difference.