Capacity building key to overcoming challenges in women’s political participation
Source: African Business
Traditionally, across South Sudan, women and girls have been disproportionately affected by conflict. Add to this, cultural norms, such as early or forced marriages, and there is a significant gap in attaining equal rights for women.
As this young nation approaches its first post-independence elections, the need for more women in politics and governance is clear.
To enable women to have a full say in decisions that impact them directly, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), through its Gender Advisory Unit, and in partnership with Eastern Equatoria’s state Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, hosted a three-day workshop on the country’s permanent constitution-making and electoral processes with a special focus on increasing participation by women in these key tasks.
Some 57 participants, including 42 women holding leadership positions within the government, civil society organizations, youth representations, and faith-based groups, attended this interactive training and strategized on how to ensure that gender provisions contained within the 2018 peace deal are fully adhered to as South Sudan races against time to complete its long-delayed democratic transition.
Click here to read the full article published by the African Business on 14 December 2023.
Traditionally, across South Sudan, women and girls have been disproportionately affected by conflict. Add to this, cultural norms, such as early or forced marriages, and there is a significant gap in attaining equal rights for women.
As this young nation approaches its first post-independence elections, the need for more women in politics and governance is clear.
To enable women to have a full say in decisions that impact them directly, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), through its Gender Advisory Unit, and in partnership with Eastern Equatoria’s state Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare, hosted a three-day workshop on the country’s permanent constitution-making and electoral processes with a special focus on increasing participation by women in these key tasks.
Some 57 participants, including 42 women holding leadership positions within the government, civil society organizations, youth representations, and faith-based groups, attended this interactive training and strategized on how to ensure that gender provisions contained within the 2018 peace deal are fully adhered to as South Sudan races against time to complete its long-delayed democratic transition.
Click here to read the full article published by the African Business on 14 December 2023.