Workshop on gender mainstreaming held

JHELUM - The Gender Support Unit Jhelum (GSUJ) organised a daylong training workshop for the government officials and public representatives of the district on Gender Concepts, Gender Budgeting and Gender Mainstreaming at district Assembly Hall here the other day. On the occasion, Gender Specialist Sadia Hussain shed light on the Gender Concepts and provided the participants with a rational presentation as to why Gender should be mainstreamed in programmes and projects. During the workshop, it was also discussed that Gender responsive budgets are not separate budgets for women but government budgets that are planned, approved, executed, monitored and audited in gender sensitive way. At the end of the training workshop, a group work was done by the participants on challenges and solution in implementation of Gender Mainstreaming strategy.

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