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UN-INSTRAW gathers women politicians and experts on political participation |
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Women politicians and experts on the issue of governance and political
participation gathered at a meeting held at the UN-INSTRAW headquarters
to discuss women’s political empowerment, the strengthening of local,
national and supranational mechanisms for the advancement of women and
the development of public policies and gender equality.
In the meeting, held on the 12 and 13 September 2009 in Santo Domingo, the participants formed an Advisory Committee to give guidance to the Institute from an integral and strategic perspective on the development of its projects with the objective of increasing its impact on women’s political participation.
Among the representatives of the Advisory Committee are Norma Añaños Castilla, Vice-Minister for Women, Peru; Arlette Bolaños Barquero, expert in electoral systems, women’s political participation and electoral jurisprudence, Costa Rica; and Alejandra Massolo, expert on decentralization and gender.
Between 2005 and 2009 the area of governance and women’s political participation developed the project entitled: “Strengthening governance with a gender perspective and women’s political participation at the local level in Latin America”. The project established the necessary basis of identification and articulation of key actors, the importance of research and knowledge management and the development of different tools for strengthening women’s capacities, particularly local, national and supranational mechanisms for women elected at the local level.
One of the projects within this area is “Support to Strengthen the Quito Consensus for women’s empowerment,” with the general objective of contributing to the fulfillment of the agreements stipulated in the Quito Consensus, which was a result of the Tenth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean in the areas of democratization, governance and political participation at the local level. The UN-INSTRAW project also acknowledges the importance of care and domestic work and to guarantee migrant women’s human rights. The project has been implemented in the Central American and Andean regions by UN-INSTRAW and financed by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID).
The Advisory Committee of the programme is composed of six persons from different levels and sectors who work on specific thematic areas of interest for these projects, such as political participation, electoral systems, and women´s networks, with special emphasis on the Central American and Andean regions, and Paraguay. The Committee will advise and give an orientation on the questions concerning the strategy, activities, and follow-up; they will also evaluate the projects.
Among the functions of this Committee are the guidance to the project in strategic terms, taking into consideration the global context of the crisis, regional and national realities and their relation to the local context, and the local component in relation to the national and regional contexts, as well as the new conceptual, methodological and technological frameworks.
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