The Minister for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, Rosy Akbar paid a courtesy visit to Ms Usha Rao-Monari, Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at her office in New York yesterday (27/03/22).
Minister Akbar briefed Ms Monari on the work of the REACH Project in Fiji, which is a project carried out in partnership between the Fijian Government through the Ministry for Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation, and UNDP with funding from the Japanese Government.
The two leaders discussed ways to strengthen their partnership in future and also the project itself. UNDP was keen to see how REACH can be used to scale up the digitalisation of services to women and others. During the discussion, the two leaders also discussed gender-based violence in Fiji and worldwide and the avenues for action. Minister Akbar shared the various initiatives that Fiji has embarked on in this regard.