Update: 8:26PM SPEAKER of Parliament Dr Jiko Luveni chaired the third session of the Tenth Meeting of Women Speakers in New York.
Presentations were made by Speakers of Parliaments from South Africa, Barbados, India, Tanzania, Finland and Rwanda on the theme, “Development: Innovating for Financing for Gender Equality”.
The Speakers highlighted areas to ensuring gender-responsive national budgets and adequate resource allocation to implement gender equality laws and policies; innovative ways to ensuring Parliament oversight of how policies are shaped and implemented; monitoring; impact of economic and budgetary policies on gender equality; and ways to avoid setbacks on financing for gender equality due to economic crises.
A report is expected to be presented to the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament.
