Roadmap for Bahraini women empowerment amid pandemic
TDT | Manama
The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com
A national strategic initiative is underway to raise Bahraini women’s productivity and contribution to the national economy. Supreme Council for Women (SCW) Secretary-General Hala Al Ansari said the main features of the Strategic Plan (2021-2022) for the Implementation of the National Plan for the Advancement of Bahraini Women has been reviewed in the face of the existing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
It will be responsible for monitoring the progress of Bahraini women and integrating their needs into national development. She pointed out that the specificity of this stage of the National Plan is about to be completed next year. Today, the completion rate is 73%.
Speaking during a virtual media briefing organised by the National Communication Center in cooperation with SCW, Al Ansari said that based on the results of their evaluation, there is an urgent need to intensify professional development options to ensure the sustainability of women’s advancement and participation in the development process.
The next phase will also include innovative and flexible plan implementation mechanisms, activation of the national governance system to achieve gender balance, working with partners through strategies aimed at improving the quality of women-oriented programmes and services, launching model programmes and projects, creating impact measuring indicators and conducting more studies and field surveys to measure women’s advancement progress.
She noted that during this current period, the Council will focus on submitting proposals, recommendations and consultations to enhance the efficiency of the services system supporting justice and social protection, and on the role of women in preventive health, as well as raising the levels of their quality of life.
The Council will also continue its work as a centre for qualitative expertise in its field of competence by intensifying knowledge exchange and investing national expertise to support the competitiveness of Bahraini women locally and internationally.
This is part of a 10-year plan that began in 2013, moving the plan to a new era with considerations in view of the developments in emergency health conditions and the nature of transformations and changes that are going through in the world.
Al Ansari pointed out that it requires everyone to adopt a new perspective, more effective and dynamic ways of working, a deeper understanding of the challenges and realistic benefit from the lessons offered by the pandemic.
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