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The Department of Women is committed to empowering and addressing women issues in Fiji, says the Minister for Health, Women and Social Welfare Dr Jiko Luveni.
She said apart from the staff’s renewed energy towards addressing women issues in Fiji, in the past 4 months she has also been able to present in Cabinet, for discussion and decision, 3 papers on keys issues of the Department.
The Minister for Women said of the Cabinet Papers namely Women in Peace Building and Women in Decision Making have seen Cabinet endorsing the milestone decisions namely:
That women representation in Government Statutory Boards to be at least 30%
That the Minister for Women becomes a member of the Security Council and department of women officials members of national security committees.
“These decisions of Cabinet have wider implication in the advancement of women’s agenda especially on the empowerment of women,” she said.
Apart from these, Dr Luveni said the implementation of the Women’s Plan of Action 1999 to 2008 is also one of the core functions of the Ministry.
She added that recently Cabinet has agreed to have a review of WPA and the need to formulate a new WPA covering the years 2009 and beyond.
“I am also very please to note that this week, the Department of Women has reactivate the dormant institutional mechanism built into the WPA namely the Inter-Ministerial Committee and the Taskforces.”
“It is our belief that the re- establishment of the taskforces, our participation in committees of other Ministries and our input to the National Council of Building a Better Fiji can all be complimentary and contributory to women’s empowerment and gender equality in Fiji,” Dr Luveni highlighted.
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