rebecca kadaga first woman speaker of the ugandan parliament also agrees that there is a need to focus beyond increasing the number of women in government to increasing their effectiveness in political positions and their impact on decisionmaking at all levels the following are some strategies that have proved successful at increasing womens representation in decisionmaking across the commonwealth endorsement of political parties after studying the political processes in the selected countries the incremental rise of women in these countries can be directly attributed to the political parties especially the ruling party taking a firm decision to institutionalise mechanisms favourable to womens access into power and positions of authority in party and governance structures at all levels of decisionmaking