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Achievements: mainstreaming gender into the Heath Sector
Development Programme (HSDP), advocacy/gender
and sensitization training and affirma-
tive action within the ministry, studies on junior
midwives, traditional birth attendants, and women
iawareness
traditional healers and care-givers.
Challenges: poor level of staffing, pockets of resistance,
even among women.
Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare
Responsibilities: addressing women-specific issues in the
labour force (employment opportunities, workplace
hazards, and rights of women workers).
Achievements: a functioning network arrangement with
women’s affairs departments at the regional
level, compilation of Basic Statistical Data and
Women’s Profile, studies on HIV and the factory
survey of women’s self-help groups, and
NGO social services, production of an advocacy
manual.
tworker,
Challenges: need for more in-depth training, limited financial
resources.
Ministry of Water Resources
Responsibilities: promoting gender specific water issues.
Achievements:
regular training programmes technical
experts at the regional level on gender analysis
techniques and gender and water issues generally,
training of staff of the ministry on assertiveness
and gender awareness.
Challenges: wrong perception of gender in the ministry,
departments sending ‘inappropriate staff’ for train-
ing programmes.
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