WOMEN'S CAUCUS IN PARLIAMENT TO ENCOURAGE OTHER WOMEN (PAGE 17, OCT 29)

THE Women’s Caucus of Parliament has joined forces with two other institutions to build the capacity of women in their constituencies.
This is to enable the female members of Parliament to impart some level of confidence into women at the local level in readiness for next year’s local assembly elections.
The capacity building programme is to enable them to take active part in making decisions on socio-economic and political processes that affect their welfare in their districts.
Speaking to more than 60 women at a workshop in the Jomoro District of the Western Region, the discussants urged women to be bold and assertive.
The workshop was funded by the African Women Development Fund Project and facilitated by Women In Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF).
The discussants noted that the recessionary position of women allowed men to have dominance over women across all sectors of the economy for ages.
They also observed that in some districts all members of the assemblies were men, a situation which they attributed to the acrimony and politics of insult, lack of self-confidence and education on the part of women.
The women were taken through gender mainstreaming, good governance, transparency, and preparation towards the district assembly elections, pre and post election-day activities, how to raise funds how to win votes to ensure victory and how to manage defeat.
Mr John B. Baidoo of WILDAF said the Government did well by promising to ensure that women formed 40 per cent of its appointments but expressed regret that the promise had not been fulfilled.