Women Development Strategy 2008.
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Type of law
Policy
Abstract
National Strategy for Women Development NSWDG (2006-2015) is a strategic vision for goals and measures required to improve women status and allow them to enjoy basic human rights and freedom to practice their developmental role and participate effectively in all life aspects.
This strategy represent in its context an expansion for the previous strategy (20032005) and for the strategic issues and goals remain the same for the long time to come because it aim in conclusion also to eliminate gender gaps which is at the core of all efforts of gender mainstreaming.
The objectives of the strategy are: (i) provide basic education for everyone by 2015 and gender equal access to education in all education level and reduction of illiteracy among girls and women by half, (ii) expand women access throughout her life cycle to adequate and advanced health care and services with affordable cost and ensure their involvement in health sector employment, (iii) reduce poor women rate to half and enhance women dependency through economic empowerment and effective participation in economic and environmental decision-making, (iv) increase women participation, quantitatively and qualitatively, in all decision-making and power positions, upgrade the national mechanisms concerned with women issues and support NGOs capacities, (v) facilitate women’s experience of their human rights guaranteed by Shara’s, national legislations and international laws in particular CEDAW and eradicate all forms of discrimination still practiced against women, (vi) expand women participation and enhance their role in media and information technology in order to improve women status and change the unbalance image and stereotype.
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the government plans to implement the following strategies: (i) expand the construction of educational institutions to train female teachers to increase education rates, (ii) expand women access, throughout her life cycle, to necessary and improved health care and services with affordable costs, (iii) ensure wide involvement of women in health sector in employment and policy design, (iv) enhance women independency and economic empowerment and active participation in economic and environmental decision making, (v) campaigns for women rights in inheritance.
In the context of governance, the women national committee (WNC) is the permanent responsible for the follow-up of the level of implementation through field visits and consultative meetings with concerned persons.
This strategy represent in its context an expansion for the previous strategy (20032005) and for the strategic issues and goals remain the same for the long time to come because it aim in conclusion also to eliminate gender gaps which is at the core of all efforts of gender mainstreaming.
The objectives of the strategy are: (i) provide basic education for everyone by 2015 and gender equal access to education in all education level and reduction of illiteracy among girls and women by half, (ii) expand women access throughout her life cycle to adequate and advanced health care and services with affordable cost and ensure their involvement in health sector employment, (iii) reduce poor women rate to half and enhance women dependency through economic empowerment and effective participation in economic and environmental decision-making, (iv) increase women participation, quantitatively and qualitatively, in all decision-making and power positions, upgrade the national mechanisms concerned with women issues and support NGOs capacities, (v) facilitate women’s experience of their human rights guaranteed by Shara’s, national legislations and international laws in particular CEDAW and eradicate all forms of discrimination still practiced against women, (vi) expand women participation and enhance their role in media and information technology in order to improve women status and change the unbalance image and stereotype.
Regarding the reduction of the rural poverty, the government plans to implement the following strategies: (i) expand the construction of educational institutions to train female teachers to increase education rates, (ii) expand women access, throughout her life cycle, to necessary and improved health care and services with affordable costs, (iii) ensure wide involvement of women in health sector in employment and policy design, (iv) enhance women independency and economic empowerment and active participation in economic and environmental decision making, (v) campaigns for women rights in inheritance.
In the context of governance, the women national committee (WNC) is the permanent responsible for the follow-up of the level of implementation through field visits and consultative meetings with concerned persons.
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Repealed
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English
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