Practice Parliament Series

This is a program aimed to increase women and youth’s capacity, knowledge, and skill to contest for elected positions and participate in the democratic processes. In this series, two demographics are targeted where Practice Parliament for Women target women over 25 years and Practice Parliament for youth targets young adults in the 16-25 age group.

This program has been conducted since 2021 in collaboration with UNDP Maldives with the support of Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).

This is a 7-day program and during the 7 days, the following key components are covered:

Training Workshop:

• Fundamentals of civic education such as democracy, good governance, participatory law making etc.
• Key parliamentary processes
• Relevant policy issues

Practice Parliament Sitting:

• A mock parliamentary proceeding