In an extraordinary meeting held on the 9 December 2009, the Council of Ministers for Women of Central America (COMMCA) approved the organization of a new meeting in Panama City on 20 January 2010.

At the meeting, representatives from agencies and international entities including UN-INSTRAW, will present their lines of action, priorities for work and their modalities for cooperation and/or the type of inter-institutional work that they conduct.

COMMCA is an entity which proposes and analyzes political, economic, social, environmental and cultural issues to promote the formulation of policies directed to transform the conditions, position and situation of women at the regional level. It is composed of ministers for women of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic.  Mexico also participates as extraregional observer.

This entity is incorporated into SICA, within the subsystem of social integration, according to a joint declaration issued on 30 June 2005 by Central American Presidents, during the XXVI Ordinary Meeting of Heads of State and Governments from the Central American Integration System (SICA), held in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
In 2005, the Heads of State and Governments from seven Latin American countries decided in their Thirteenth Agreement of the XXIV Ordinary Meeting, to incorporate COMMCA into SICA. The Heads of State ratified their commitment to eradicate all forms of violence against women and to guarantee their rights in conditions of fairness and equality.  They also agreed to promote a gender perspective that will guarantee a greater participation of women in all orders of regional life.

During 2009, COMMCA developed a process to revise its Strategic Plan in order to evaluate and reflect upon what was achieved during its first years of operation. The Plan takes into consideration context factors and the dynamics inherent to the institutional tasks of COMMCA at that time.

The three strategic axes of the Council will be: Economic Autonomy, Political Participation and Strengthening of the Gender Institutionalism at SICA.

See the agenda
Link to the COMMCA website
Link to the SICA website

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