OSCE co-organized co-ordination meeting with Municipal Gender Focal Points in Podgorica

The OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in co-operation with the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, organized a co-ordination meeting with municipal gender focal points on 11 July in Podgorica. The participants evaluated accomplishments and activities carried out by the municipalities in the last period and discussed and co-ordinated future activities.

Lia Magnaguagno, the Democratization Programme Manager of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, highlighted the importance of the network of municipal gender focal points as an informal mechanism for information sharing, mutual support and further empowerment of women at the local level.

“Through the co-operation between the Ministry, the OSCE Mission and the municipalities, practices for achieving equal opportunities policy at the local level have been improved. This has provided an incentive for further improvement of normative and institutional mechanisms,” said Biljana Pejović, Head of the Department for Gender Equality in the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights.

The OSCE Mission, in partnership with the Ministry, will continue supporting the work of the network through training, expertise and co-ordination.