The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) yesterday called for increasing women representatives in local level councils, which will help develop their rights.   The UNICEF with the help of National Institute of Local Government (NILG) organised a workshop on raising the women empowerment and their strong participation in local level administrations, in the capital. At least 2,000 elected women representatives from the Union Parishad and Upazila Parishad took part at the workshop from 20 districts in seven divisions.
The main objective of the workshop is to increase the institutional skill, empowerment and leadership, protection of child rights and to enhance the responsibilities of the women representatives in union parishads and upazila parishads.
Three women in each UP and one vice-chairman in UZ parishad have been elected in local government elections.
“The UNICEF is happy to work for the women in Bangladesh. The UNICEF wants to work with the NILG to increase the women empowerment and their role,” UNICEF Representative Edouard Beigbeder said while inaugurating the training
workshop.
The UNICEF is ready to work more for children and women rights, to increase the institutional empowerment for the deprived women, creation of awareness, responsibility and educational programme with the help of local government institutions, he added.
“Half of the populations of the country are women. This training programme will help institutional empowerment and their role at the grassroots level for the women,” Golam Yahea, director of NILG said at the workshop.
The women leadership will be strengthened further to protect the women and children rights through this training programme, he hoped.