Project profile — Support to Decentralized Governance in Burma

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project are: (1) increased integration of democratic and federal principles into policy of the Government in Burma; and (2) increased engagement of citizens and civil society, including women’s groups, in the transition to federal democracy in Burma.

Results achieved as of the end of the project (June 2019) include: (1) 2,802 key political stakeholders (of which 36% were women) were trained to better understand federal governance issues relevant to their country; (2) 11,372 participants (of which 3,549 (31%) were women) were trained in 240 trainings, in 240 townships across the country; (3) the training provided contributed to increasing the understanding of participants of federalism and of the mechanisms that can help to strengthen women’s participation in a federal system and in public decision-making; (4) 70% of trained beneficiaries demonstrated the capacity to deliver township trainings on federalism; and (5) eight of every ten beneficiaries spoke of a 50% improvement in their understanding on themes and issues related to GE and federalism, such as human rights, unity and diversity, peacebuilding, distribution of powers, local government, fiscal federalism and gender budgeting. This project interacted with 51 intermediaries and 17,580 direct beneficiaries (of which 5,740 (33%) were women) in total.