Jamaica hosts Commonwealth Girls Parliamentarians Convention

A particular hybrid Commonwealth Girls Parliamentarians Convention was hosted on the Jamaica Pegasus Lodge in New Kingston, Jamaica on Wednesday, July 12. 

This was introduced by Minister of Tradition, Gender, Leisure and Sport, and Deputy Chief of the Home of Representatives, Hon. Olivia Grange, throughout an announcement to the Home on Tuesday, July 11.

The convention, hosted by Jamaica’s Parliament, which is the native department of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Affiliation (CPA), was titled ‘Commonwealth Girls Parliamentarians (CWP) Regional Convention on Girls’s Political and Parliamentary Management’.

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The CWP, an arm of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Affiliation, has a mission to advertise the illustration of ladies in CPA Branches and their full and equal participation in political and parliamentary management in any respect ranges. 

The CWP represents over 3,000 girls parliamentarians throughout 180 Commonwealth nationwide and sub-national Parliaments in 56 international locations inside the CPA’s 9 areas.

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Minister Grange stated that the Convention was to coach girls parliamentarians concerning the correct functioning of a Parliamentary Girls’s Caucus by constructing on the work of two current workshops on growing gender caucuses, held in December 2022 and March 2023.

She additionally highlighted that the convention was to sensitize non-parliamentarians concerning the legislative course of, discover methods to advertise girls’s points within the legislature, and establish legislative measures to guard girls and susceptible teams in Caribbean society.

The Convention facilitated significant exchanges amongst roughly 300 parliamentarians, girls councilors, personal and public sector leaders, and youth leaders from the 19 branches within the area. Whereas 80 native members have been anticipated to attend in individual, distant abroad members additionally joined the convention. 

Minister Grange knowledgeable that the convention was funded by way of a CWP Regional Strengthening Funds grant of £10,000 ($1,900,000). The grant coated bills associated to the venue, meals, audio system/presenters, tools (together with devoted Web service), stationery and printed supplies, in addition to décor, images, and leisure.

Notable audio system for the occasion included Minister Grange, Minister of Authorized and Constitutional Affairs, Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte, Home Speaker Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, and Dr. Angela Brown Burke, amongst others.

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