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Main Functions
Countries* National Plans Objectives National Machinery
for Implementation
of Women’s Policies
HDI
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Annex
The functions of the Ministry include:
Mainstreaming of women’s and gender
concerns in the planning process and all policy
areas; review of laws that are disadvantageous
to women; allocation of additional resources
to develop women’s micro-enterprise financial
institutions to be encouraged to review
lending policies to disadvantaged women and
young women who lack traditional sources
of collateral; gender balanced partnership at
all levels of decision making and assigning
fifty per cent of representation, participation,
training, appointments and promoting at
all levels of government to women on merit
and as appropriate and encourage the same
in the private sector; campaign to promote a
sound and stable environment that is free of
violence, especially domestic violence, sexual
Ministry of Women
and Culture 1960
(UNESCAP n.d.).
The Plan focuses on five areas of
concern: mainstream women’s and
gender concerns in the planning
process and all policy areas; women
and the law; micro-enterprise
development; balance gender in
decision making; and eliminate
violence against women and
children.
100 Fiji Women’s Plan of Action
1999–2008 (CEDAW
2010a).
harassment and child abuse.
Its objectives are to: upgrade women’s and
social affairs portfolios to cabinet level status;
formulate and adopt official FSM gender
policy and strategic development agenda;
establish effective mechanisms for engaging
women in the democratic, development and
No information available National Gender
Office 1991
(UNESCAP n.d.).
No information
available
116 Micronesia
(Federated
States of )
governance processes.
The functions of the Federation include:
provide women and various agencies with
information and training opportunities;
research on women’s needs; develop or
upgrade the status of women ;draw up the
National Women Development Plan
No information available. Kiribati Women’s
Federation 1982
(UNESCAP n.d.).
122 Kiribati No information
available.
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