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Mechanisms to promote the advancement of women


Mechanisms to promote the advancement of women

National Machinery. The National Commission on the Integration of Women in Development (CN/IFD) was established in 1993 in the Ministry of Planning and Economic Reconstruction (MPRE), with the mandate to develop and implement a national policy for the promotion of women in development, and to coordinate all initiatives by national and international structures for the advancement of women.

WID Units or Focal Points in Technical Ministries. There are focal points in each of the technical ministries who are responsible for ensuring that the gender dimension is taken into consideration in the implementation of programmes within their respective Ministries. In addition, within the Ministry of Rural Development, the Office for the Promotion of Rural Women's Activities (SPAFR) works primarily in the area of data collection. However, it is hampered by insufficient financial and human resources and lack of strong links with the planning processes in the Ministry.

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). There has been an increase in both the number of women's associations and NGOs concerned with the promotion of women, particularly in the areas of income-generation, savings and credit, literacy, mother and child health, - and environmental protection. Other NGOs focus on women's legal rights and carry out activities in the area of legal reform and legal literacy. Although these organizations are relatively new and lack adequate financial resources to attain their objectives, these structures constitute potential agents for implementing a programme for the advancement of women in development.

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