The capital city of Podgorica, in line with Action Plan on Achieving Gender Equality in the Capital City for the Period of 2016-2017, organized a conference titled “Promotion of women rights and history of female movement”.
One of participants in the panel on women entrepreneurship was Ms Zvezdana Oluic, an Advisor for Women Entrepreneurship at MEF that first had a presentation named “MEF Support – Access to Finance, Knowledge and Entrepreneurship Skills“, and then played a promo video “Women’s Route” that MEF created within IPA funded project Lakeroutes.
Acting Secretary for Labor, Youth and Social Welfare at Podgorica local administration, Ms Vucinic, pointed out that the Action Plan was based in international and national legislation on gender equality, documents of UN, Council of Europe, EU and specialized international organizations related to equality if women and men while the experts support in drafting process was provided by OSCE mission in Montenegro.
According to Ms Vucinic, the Action Plan involves 8 priority areas: promotion of women human rights and gender equality, gender sensitive upbringing and education, gender equality in economy, gender sensitive health protection, gender based violence, media and culture, equality in the decision making in political and public life, institutional mechanisms for implementation of gender equality policies.
By emphasizing the fact that equality of women and men is inseparable corpus of human rights, it was concluded that commitment to promotion of women rights and gender equality is necessary for democratic prosperity of the society.
