As political parties concentrate around preparations for the Constituent Assembly (CA) election, protest programs demanding 33 percent women´s representation in the new CA has fallen under shadow.
US Ambassador Peter W. Bodde today called for increased participation of women in the upcoming elections and announced that his government would work with the government of Nepal and civil society to encourage women and underrepresented groups to participate in politics.
As Nepal grapples with finding a political alternative to the Baburam Bhattarai-led government and awaits an election date, women in the
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Around twenty-five different women associations in Nepal voiced their concerns with the lack of adequate representation of women in the interim government.
The Coordinator of Governmental Talks Team Ramchandra Poudel said government had positively taken the demand placed by women representatives for women's proportional representation in each sector of the state and it would help in building of inclusive system of governance.
Women leaders and women’s rights activists submitted a memorandum to the government demanding the inclusion of women in the list of 26 Constituent Assembly (CA) members to be nominated by the cabinet.
In the 2007-2010 interim plan the government incorporated gender empowerment targets. To mainstream gender in national development policies, the Nepali government introduced a gender responsive budgeting (GRB) system in the fiscal year 2007-08.