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IDEA Internacional se solidariza con el resiliente pueblo de Myanmar tras el devastador terremoto del 28 de marzo de 2025. Este desastre natural ha agravado una crisis humanitaria ya grave, causada por las acciones de la junta militar desde el golpe de Estado de 2021.

Read this statement in Myanmar language.

On 8 March, as the world observes International Women's Day and marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, it is essential to recognize the key roles women continue to play in Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement since the illegal 2021 military coup.

View this joint statement in Myanmar. 

Ver esta declaración conjunta en Myanmar. 

En el Día Internacional de las Personas con Discapacidad, es importante reflexionar sobre los desafíos que enfrentan las personas con discapacidad en Myanmar desde el golpe de Estado de 2021 y considerar estrategias para su inclusión en los esfuerzos de reforma democrática en curso liderados por las instituciones del gobierno provisional de Myanmar.

On the International Day for People with Disabilities, it is important to reflect on the challenges faced by persons with disabilities (PWD) in Myanmar since the 2021 coup and to consider strategies for their inclusion in the ongoing democratic reform efforts led by Myanmar’s interim government institutions.

Today, 8 November 2024 marks the fourth anniversary of Myanmar’s 2020 Elections which have been defamed by the military’s fabricated narrative of electoral fraud to justify the attempted coup on 1 February 2021.

Identity and ethnicity have long been central to Myanmar’s extended political crisis and are key factors in the quest to build an inclusive federal democratic system. 

According to a 2019 survey, 12.8 per cent of Myanmar’s 54.38 million population (an estimated 5.9 million people) live with disabilities. In a survey conducted for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) in 2022

IDEA Internacional habló con la artista Chuu Wai (chuuwai.com) con motivo del Día Internacional de la Mujer sobre sus perspectivas sobre el papel de las mujeres en el arte y la resistencia y sobre el impacto de la cultura tradicional en hombres y mujeres en Myanmar.

International IDEA spoke to artist Chuu Wai (chuuwai.com) on the occasion of International Women’s Day about her perspectives on the role of women in art and resistance and about the impact of traditional culture on men and women in Myanmar.

International IDEA’s Myanmar Youth Democracy Academy is a free online self-guided training course that offers fundamental knowledge of democracy. The course is designed to ensure that the public and, exceptionally, young people from Myanmar are equipped with the civic knowledge and skills needed to participate in and contribute to effectively consolidating and strengthening democracy in the country. 

International IDEA spoke to artist and photographer Mayco Naing on the sidelines of the Australian National University (ANU) Myanmar Update 2023, where she launched her exhibition, “How to quantify FEAR”. 

Constitution-making is often integral to achieving a new political settlement after conflict and in fragile settings. However, the process fails with relative frequency, in that actors cannot agree on a new text or the finalized text is not approved or ratified. While failure may be temporary—the process may resume after a period of time—it can also be costly.

On 5–6 December 2022, International IDEA gathered 30 leading experts on democracy, anti-corruption and human rights at the inaugural Democracy in Asia and the Pacific Outlook Forum. Representing 23 institutions and organizations from 12 countries, attendees discussed key trends in democracy in the Asia and the Pacific region over the course of seven topical sessions.

View this joint statement in English and Myanmar. 

This technical paper explores and analyses diversity management in Sudan’s democratic transition arrangement (2019–2021). It primarily utilizes the concept of ‘diversity management’ for legislative practice. To administer geographical, multicultural, multi-ethnic and multilingual population diversity, Sudan has passed, in accordance with international principles, many laws to manage diversity in a way that reflects strategic national planning.

Federalism is a constitutional mechanism for dividing responsibilities between different levels of government in a country. It grants constituent units (i.e. substate territorial entities that may be called states, regions, provinces, Länder or cantons) a certain degree of autonomy (or self-rule) in regulating some policy areas.

Myanmar is rich in natural resources and a global biodiversity hotspot. Myanmar is also one of the countries worst affected by climate change and one of the least equipped to improve its resilience without external support. How to manage natural resources has always been at the heart of Myanmar’s history and learning how to manage economic development sustainably became a central question of Myanmar’s democratic transition.