The political empowerment of women: preliminary Assessment Report

Abstract

This paper assesses the achievements of governments and United Nations agencies in the area of Women in Power and Decision Making, interviews and documentary surveys were carried out to establish the following: the amount of resources (human, financial) allocated to political empowerment of women; statistical information depicting the status of women in the area of political empowerment; conferences/meetings and consultations that have been organized at national, regional and international levels as a follow up to the Beijing conference;recommendations that have come out of these mechanisms that have been set up to monitor progress in the political empowerment of women; the major constraints or challenges for the political empowerment of women and mechanisms and procedures that have been established to mobilize resources for the political empowerment of women.