Our Goals

To work on empowering women to build equal partnerships and participate with men in all areas of life

To contribute to widespread and effective political participation in order to realize safe and sustainable political development

More specifically, the PDF seeks to achieve the following objectives:
  1. To observe and evaluate political development in its entirety.
  2. To empower Yemeni women to achieve equal relations of partnership and participation with men in public life in general and in political life in particular. Women’s active political participation guarantees legal, social, and economic rights for women in the society.
  3. To expand and activate interest in general political affairs and to make this interest the entrance into or introduction to political participation.
  4. To create and stimulate active political participation among diverse social forces in general and among forces absent from the political sphere and marginalized in society more particularly.
  5. To raise and spread awareness about the right of freedom of political choice, the active political participation of every citizen, and the defence of these rights as itself a basic right among human rights guaranteed and affirmed by national and international conventions.
  6. To train and qualify political and party activists in general and the representatives of marginalized and disadvantaged groups in particular in a way that enhances and strengthens their political roles.
  7. To conduct studies and offer advice in matters of political development.
  8. To work on creating a positive, popular impression of political participation, parties, and the political establishment in a way that limits the current negative, popular impression and its ramifications. The PDF will work to achieve its goals through the following means:
    • Conferences.
    • An Annual report on political development.
    • Teams and committees.
    • Field, executive, and specialized programs.
    • Any other means seen suitable by the PDF to achieve its goals.


  Network of Democracy Research Institutes:
Network of Democracy Research Institutes
National Endowment for Democracy American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy Center for the Study of Democracy - UC Irvine Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law Rights &ampl Democracy The Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation Rene Moawad Foundation Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies