Although in the last decade the number of women in political posts at the national level in Latin America has increased significantly, according to data collected by UN-INSTRAW in 16 Latin American countries, only 5.3% of governments at the local level are headed by women mayors. This implies that most Latin American municipalities, where women participate less in decision-making posts, lack plurality and representativeness,
In order to confront and close this gap in representation, discussions were held during the workshop concerning new challenges and opportunities to promote greater political participation of women in decision-making posts at the local level, and a Project Consultative Committee.
Furthermore, activities and a concrete workplan were programmed for the third phase of the UN-INSTRAW Project (2008-2009), oriented towards promoting the formulation of public policies with a gender perspective at the local level. The main goals of these activities, as identified by seminar participants, were to promote the inclusion in these policies of the needs and interests of women and to champion the full participation of women at the local level.
With the aim of discussing these issues, the event gathered several experts from the Latin American and Caribbean region, including: Elisabeth Salguero Carillo (President of the World Parliament for Bolivia – Representative of MAS), Claudia Ranaboldo (Coordinator for the Andean region of the UN-INSTRAW Project), Miosotis Rivas (Technical Secretary of COMMCA - Consejo de Ministras de la Mujer de Centroamérica), Yolanda Solana (Coordinator of the UN-INSTRAW Project), Alejandra Massolo (Researcher and expert in public policies from a gender perspective), Marcela Diaz (Expert in Gender Issues), Ivannia Ayales (Coordinator for Central America of the UN-INSTRAW Project) and the Political Participation Unit of UN-INSTRAW.
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