Gayflor Discusses Gender Equality
By J. Nathaniel Daygbor

June 10, 2005 - (The Analyst) The Minister of Gender Ministry Vabah Gayflor has been discussing the issue of gender equalities and the empowerment of women as a national priority concern.

She said that the Ministry of Gender under her leadership has no vested interest other than that which will ultimately seek, promote, facilitate the uplifting of the society through the effective formulation and design of the necessary programming strategies which are of critical prerequisite for building a sustaining peace, removing, social, economic, political inequalities, and institution of democratic good governance.

Speaking on the topic, Engendering political Participation In Liberia, held at the Gender Ministry, the Minister indicated that the forum which would help identify modalities for collaboration on how to enhance women participation in the scheduled October presidential and Legislative elections has always been a major priority concern of not only Gender and United Nations theme group on gender, national and international partners organizations and women that strongly believe that not much has really been achieved in the area of engendering the political process in Liberia after a conflict of catastrophic proportion.

She said it was anticipated that the participation in the forum will ultimately lead to the commencement of a process that has been slow to get underway primarily because of enormous resource constraints.

Madam Gayflor however, urged the women to support initiative, saying they are intended to strengthen their own capacity for the enormous challenges they face daily in their quest to contribute more meaningfully to the national recovery and renewal process.

She stressed that the women must now realize that the “national challenge is now becoming far more exacting than what it was a few years back. Women’s contribution is required in every aspect of the peace building process.

This forum throws out the challenge to all of us policy markers and beneficiaries, aspects, implementing agencies, donors, governors, and the governed.”

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