Preliminary assessement report on political empowerment of women

Abstract

This paper assesses the achievements of governments and United Nations agencies in the area of Women in power and decision making. Interview and documentary survey were carried out to establish the following: the amount of resource (human financial) allocated to political empowerment of women, statistical information depicting the status of women in the area of political empowerment, conference /meetings and consultations that have been organization as national regional and international levels as a follow-up to the Beijing conference, recommendations that have come out of these for a mechanisms that have been set up to monitor progress in the political empowerment of women, and major constraint or challengers that have been established to mobilizer resources for the political empowerment of women.