Gender equality should be promoted at meeting in Busan, NGOs

Civil society organizations that plead for strengthening gender equality in Moldova call on the decision makers to assume commitments and promote gender equality and to make public these commitments at the Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness that will take place in Busan, South Korea in November-December, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a call launched by the NGOs to the Moldovan authorities, the development partners, international agencies and the country’s donors, which will take part in this forum, should promote gender equality by increasing transparency of the financing of gender equality and extending the support provided to civil society for implementing the participative monitoring approach, etc. “In order to ensure sustainable development in Moldova and democracy by participative, transparent and non-discriminatory governance, we urge creating a tripartite partnership consisting of the state, donors and civil society with a view to identifying the strategic development priorities and implementing the steps aimed at achieving them,” Daniela Terzi-Barbarosie, director of the Partnership for Development Center, said during public debates. According to Daniela Terzi-Barbarosie, the national development strategy for 2012-2020 should contain a separate chapter on gender equality. There must be worked out a viable institutional mechanism and sector gender statistics that would be obligatorily used in devising and assessing sector development strategies. The director of the Partnership for Development Center also said that the call launched by the NGOs that promote gender equality is linked to the call of the National Participation Council. They demand including the issue of gender in the strategic development programs and increasing financing from foreign donors and development partners for the area of gender equality. The chairman of the National Participation Council Sorin Mereacre said there should be created a system for managing and monitoring the money coming from foreign donors. “The allocation methods should be clearly defined so that we are able to analyze the financing,” he stated.