Five hundred girls are to acquire technical expertise under a four year gender responsive skills development project.
The project initiated by the government, with support from the Africa Development Bank, is aimed at achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
In a statement signed by The Public Relation Officer of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC) Mrs. Adisa Ofori- Adu micro finance institutions and business development service providers could also be trained to offer better services to women and small scale entrepreneurs under the project.
According to the statement, the government is vigorously pursuing programs and activities towards the elimination of domestic violence and trafficking of persons.
It said the Domestic Violence (DV) and Human Trafficking Management Boards had been reconstituted and inaugurated and stake holders workshops held to develop inter and intra agency protocols for the implementation of the domestic violence and human trafficking Acts.
According to the statement, a Gender Responsive Budgeting Policy was being implemented to ensure that the annual budget of Ministries, Departments and Agencies(MDAs) adequately took gender issues into consideration adding that 110 Policy Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation Department Budget and Gender Desk Officers from 16MDAs had so far been trained in gender responsive budgeting.
The statement said MOWAC was in the process of setting up a Gender Responsive Budgeting Monitoring Unit (GRB-MU) to facilitate effective delivering of gender main streaming as a key dimension of the national development process.
It said cabinet has asked MDAs, to come out with gender policies for their programmes and projects and also set aside funds to implement gender issues.
The release said measures had put in place to recover loans procured by women groups under the micro finance and small scale sector funds during the previous administration and will soon resume provision of micro credit facilities to small scale businesses and alternative livelihood skills training to women’s groups.
Source, The Ghanaian Times.
