Some highlights include:

• Working with the Malaysian Dewan Rakyat’s women’s committee and local gender NGOs to improve the knowledge and skills of MPs and staff to advance gender equality through oversight and law-making. This included multiple workshops and practical sessions, an exchange visit to the Italian Chamber of Deputies, development of an action plan, creation of a gender impact assessment process for draft legislation, and piloting of the process on an agricultural Bill. Some of the participants in these activities are now working to conduct a gender audit in the parliament.

• Producing two international research publications, Gender-Sensitive Scrutiny: A Guide to More Effective Oversight and Law-Making, and Beyond Numbers: Gender Equality In and Through Parliaments. The findings of these publications have been instrumental in guiding the INTER PARES approach to gender, and case studies collected are used to share ideas and learning between parliaments.

• Supporting the National Congress of Chile to update their post-legislative scrutiny (law evaluation) methodology to include gender. This included  exchanges with other parliaments and legal experts, and practical sessions with parliamentary staff to design appropriate methods.

• Holding a large, international exchange on women’s caucuses with the National Assembly of Niger, and six other parliaments from across Africa and Europe.

• Collaborating with the National Assembly of Bhutan and a local gender NGO to support the women’s caucus, holding two three-day workshops on gender-sensitive oversight and lawmaking, and production of a Bhutan-specific guidance.

• Designing and delivering two workshops on gender-sensitive parliaments and gender-sensitive oversight and lawmaking for the parliaments of Botswana and Zambia.