Women’s empowerment to work in the municipalities and to achieve the principle of equal opportunities

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Under the guidance of major general mahmoud people, minister for local development, to expand the empowerment of women to work in the municipalities and to achieve the principle of equal opportunities… the ministry of local development held a meeting with the heads of the equal opportunities units of the provinces and in the presence of the ministry’s leadership, Las Review of the most important achievements of the provincial equal opportunities units during 2018/2019 in the 4 areas of women’s empowerment: Political, economic and social empowerment and protection. The meeting also discussed the most important problems and constraints facing the work of women leaders. Come to the local administration.

The Ministry stressed that equal opportunities units are one of the most important topics that must be highlighted and taken care of, as the successes of the provinces have made the ministry and the provinces a distinct and advanced place to promote the principle of equal opportunities in the area of rights Women, where the proportion of women leaders in the ministry of local development is 38 % so far, and a careful survey of the number of women leaders at the provincial level is under way.

The Ministry noted that one of the most important achievements in the area of women’s rights was achieved at the conference of cities and local governments in Africa, where Egypt became an active member of the African women’s network, which aims to unite women leaders in local politics to be able to increase their opportunities. To influence cities and regional and local authorities and to promote gender equality in Africa.

The Ministry confirmed that there will be a coordinating role for heads of provincial equal opportunities units within the network of African local women to ensure that policies, programmes and decisions taken within the network are disseminated at the level of various local administration units, especially those not headed by a special woman. The African local women’s network was supporting the campaigns of African cities without street children, zero tolerance for violence against women, empowerment of women, the development of elected women’s leadership, the promotion of gender equality in local policy and the implementation of the marrakech charter for equality.

The Ministry explained that the most important achievements of the equal opportunities units in the provinces focused on the implementation of many initiatives at the provincial level, including the “you are productive” initiative, which aims to raise the standard of living of women, especially female heads, through handicrafts training. Associated with environmental materials in the governorate and helping them to obtain easy loans for the implementation of these small projects, the ” together against violence ” initiative aimed at addressing all forms of violence against women, and the ” Without Egyptian ” initiative aimed at eliminating all forms of violence against women. On illiteracy and prevention of drop-out of education, as well as awareness-raising seminars to raise awareness of the role of local people’s councils, the importance of women’s participation in political life, and the ” day in village ” initiative aimed at raising awareness of equal opportunities units at the centre, village level and the ” day The problems of women working at the level of women and working to solve them.

The Ministry added that the most important achievements of the provinces of city, North Sinai, portsaid, Western and eastern and the new valley in the centre of political empowerment were the holding of training courses to rehabilitate women in political work, take leadership positions and help working women to obtain their rights. Functional, at the centre of economic empowerment, the provinces of city, matrouh, Ismail, semen and minors have held training workshops on manual and simple work.