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A workshop on realising women's potential is being organized around the themes of the CHOGM 'Transforming Commonwealth Societies to achieve Political, Economic and Human Development' and the Commonwealth People's Forum (CPF) theme of 'Realising People's Potential'. The workshop is scheduled for Tuesday 20th November, 2007 from 12.00noon - 7.30pm at Hotel Africana Kampala Uganda.

The workshop will be underpinned by a debate on financing gender equality work with specific objectives as;

To facilitate policy dialogue on the importance of resource allocation for promoting Gender Equality specifically focusing on the need for engendered policy making processes in resource allocation for economic and human development spheres of the commonwealth society.
To identify and discuss the centrality of financing gender and in particular promotion of women's rights to achieving targets that will be set in CHOGM Declaration and CPF statement.
To take forward discussions of financing gender equality work and to identify key massages from civil society for upcoming review of Paris declaration on Aid Effectiveness in 2008 in Accra Ghana
To devise strategies for working towards the implementation of the commonwealth plan of action for Gender Equality.

The workshop will officially be opened by Hon. Syda Bbumba Namirembe, Minister for Gender Labour and Social Development, Republic of Uganda. We shall be joined by several other Commonwealth delegates. For the resource persons, we shall have a key presenter on the topic Ms. Zawadi Nyong'o who will also give the global experiences on aid effectiveness.
Ms. Elizabeth Eilor will give the African regional perspective of aid effectiveness,
Ms. Rae Julian will present on the Caribbean perspective
Ms. Paulette Senior will give the Canadian perspective and
Ms. Doris Bingley is to present on the European experience.
Ms. Nelcia Robinson from the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA) will facilitate the group report back session. All the above attended the 8WAMM Partners Forum.

Kindly click link to obtain the Workshop Programme (PDF format) for your guidance.

For more information, contact Ms. Florence Kebirungi, Coordinator, CWN at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it /

Portuguese Platform for Women's Rights: Call for input on women's rights and the integration of gender equality
The Portuguese Platform for Women's Rights is a nongovernmental organisation whose members are associations active in promoting women's rights and gender equality. The Portuguese Platform for Women's Rights is independent from political parties, religious institutions or governmental structures. It represents Portugal in the European Women's Lobby (an NGO that brings together over 4000 women's organisations from all over Europe) and in the Association des Femmes de l'Europe M'ridionale (an NGO whose members are women's rights organisations from France, Italy, Greece, Portugal and Spain).

Next month (8-9 December 2007), Lisbon will host the EU-Africa Summit hold under the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union (Find more about this event here: http://www.eu2007.pt/UE/vEN/Reunioes_Eventos/ChefesEstado/EUAfrica.htm and here: http://europafrica.org/lisbon-summit/).

The Portuguese Platform for Women's Rights is disposed to lobby for women's rights and the integration of a gender equality perspective in this Summit. Therefore, we kindly ask you to let us know your priorities as African women's NGO in order to agree on a joint declaration on this crucial issue to be realised and widely disseminated on this occasion.

Please distribute widely among your members and give us feedback until 26 November 2007 to: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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