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Shavon Pulley/April 11/ Gender issues
"Gender equity is essential for growth and poverty reduction, and it is key to reaching the Millennium Development Goals," is what the Ambassador of Ghana said. Many believe that Gender inequalities are still ingrained in the cultural, social and political systems in many countries. The program is the plan to provide a support base for the integration of gender equality as a key ingredient for development in the context of aid effectiveness agenda. The 4.7 million Euro EC/UN Partnership program is expected to advocate stronger action on gender equality and women's rights in national development processes in cooperation programs. It will support national consultations on gender and aid effectiveness in 12 countries, with representatives from government, national women's machineries, NGOs, EC delegations, UN country Teams, bi and multilateral organizations and other stake holders committed to the advancement and spearheading of gender issues. The organization wants to do a mapping study that will help generate baseline information, establish the status quo, and identified gaps which should facilitate the tracking of the input of Development Partners into the development agenda of Ghana. Mapping this study has provided a picture of the allocation of Government Budget resources for gender activities, including gender mainstreaming. The gender issues are so critical to planning and evaluation that they must always show a response to this issue.
I believe that this type of articles will help gender inequality in a positive way. This program is being put together is to improve the gender issues that may come from poverty. They want to help control the number of issues that come from poverty. When people are feeling of the bottom of the barrel , it is hard to make things equal.
2 comments:
It's about time that governmental action is being taken toward gender equality. Hopefully it will work out. Good article.
I agree with you when you say that this type of article helps to bring attention to gender inequality. However, in my HDF 410 class, we have been studying Africa, which included Ghana. The family structures, political structures, and the patriarchy that exists does not allow a lot of room for gender equality. I think there is more work to be done than this article is really presenting.
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