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Bahrain women’s conference “a big success”
BAHRAIN , December 13, 2015
A global conference on women jointly hosted by the Supreme Council for Women and Organization for Economic Development (OECD) in Bahrain has been declared a resounding success by its organisers.
Themed ‘Women in Public Life: From Policies to Impact’, the conference was attended by high-level international representatives including policy makers, senior governmental officials, parliamentarians as well as representatives from international organizations and NGOs besides civil society and the private sector.
Experts at the conference stressed the importance of developing a complete country-specific governance system and the implementation of an auditing methodology in the field of promoting equal opportunities at the national level.
The summit also called for formulating national guidance instruments that would be able to assist policymakers in Bahrain on how to use existing parliamentary tools in following up the exerted efforts in raising levels of women's development and close any gap quality.
At the conference, experts also put spotlight on promoting access to equal opportunities in the private sector, leveraging civil society to advance gender-responsive policies, promoting equal opportunities in the parliamentary and electoral practices as well as building accountability for gender responsive policies from strategy to impact. -TradeArabia News Service
