Members of the senate of Somali are being equipped with skills and knowledge on leadership and gender-equality needed to fight the place of gender inequality and empower women in Somalia.
The training which is an initiative of the UNDP, started recently with a group of 30 Somali legislators, holds at Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel in Entebbe, under the theme “Transformation leadership training for federal and state members of parliament”.
Present at the training is the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) cross-cutting unit manager, Catriona Byrne, a guest speaker at the training, and she said that the country is struggling gender base challenges including violence against women in the country and early girl-child marriage and high levels of female genital mutilation (FGM) at 98% and there is a need to address the situation.
“To address gender issues in Somalia, strong leadership is crucial. This training is meant to empower MPs with leadership skills to be able to address and support the needs of women and girls,”
“The fastest way to achieve development is through promotion of rights of all people and this can be achieved through leadership for results,” she added
