In the frame work of the project “Gender, governance and women's political participation at local level in Latina America” UN-INSTRAW organized a conference with Sonia Montano, chief of the gender and development unit of ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean).
During the event, officials from the Secretary of Women in the Dominican Republic, from the Center of Investigations for Feminist Actions, (CIPAF) according to it's spanish acronym, from the Dominican women’s association and the civil society participated and debated their opinions.