The drive to get women into politics continues. The UNDP has teamed up with WIN Belize for a 4-day training in Gender and Elections.
The training used what's known as the BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) program on electoral processes - and we found out today what the aim is:..
Carolyn Reynolds, WIN Belize
"Yes Belize is at the lower end when you look at women in political leadership. However in Belize we also will be having village council elections. This is a stepping stone towards achieving our goals of ensuring that more women put themselves up for office. The purpose of this training is to build the capacity and so we've been looking at the electoral process and how even in Belize we can use some of the temporary special measures that Belize has agreed to do when we look at the convention in relation to all forms of discrimination against women."
Participants include women from Village and City Councils, Tertiary Institutions, the Elections & Boundaries Department and mass parties.
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