Malanje: UNDP Runs Gender, Development Workshop

December 8, 2005 – (Angola Press Agency) A workshop on gender and development opened Thursday in Angola's northern Malanje province under the UN Development Programme (UNDP), as part of Government strategy on women participation in decision making organs.

The information was released by the event facilitator, Idalinda Rodrigues, with UNDP, who added that the meeting will last for two days and aims at contributing to the development and women participation in the process of local development and decision making.

The event is also intended to publicise the Government's local gender strategy on the resolutions from the Southern Africa Development Programme (SADC) and Beijing, the source said.

The event is discussing such topics as gender and history of socialisation, identification of the gender matters in the development and introduction of the model of gender analysis.

The practices of gender analysis model, planning of activity related to gender, personal evaluation of the work and planning on the next workshop are also being tackled at the meeting.

The workshop is being attended by representatives of provincial department of education, health, family and woman promotion, social communication and members of the provincial government.

From: http://allafrica.com/stories/200512090130.html