In advance of both the provincial council elections that took place in 2009 and also in advance of the parliamentary elections in 2010, we supported women candidates to participate in campaign schools, and those were very practical kinds of things. How do you speak in public? How do you network? How do you raise funds? What do you do about the resistance of your family to your participation in the political process? How do you formulate a platform? Then once the elections were finished, we went back and looked at how we could support the actual successful candidates. What does it mean to be a member of Parliament, particularly for women who are new members of Parliament? They may not fully understand the role of a member of Parliament, let alone how to be effective as a woman inside a very challenging context.
One of our partner organizations is looking at twinning incumbent female MPs with new female MPs. There are a variety of strategies that we're supporting.