DAN CHURCH AID MALAWI CALLS TO ACTION ON GENDER EQUALITY

Dan Church Aid Malawi’s three-folded objective of the conference was:

- To place renewed focus on economic empowerment of women.

- To facilitate a multi-sector platform for main stakeholders to discuss pressing challenges, explore strategic synergies, and discover new opportunities of collaboration on the road ahead towards economic empowerment of women and gender equality in Malawi.

- To formulate a catalogue of needed interventions and solutions in the way forward towards economic empowerment of women in Malawi to feed into a “Lilongwe Declaration” on Economic Empowerment of Women.

The conference was attended by a multi-sector audience of stakeholders composed by experts and practitioners within Government, the non-governmental organizations, representatives from the financial institutions, faith-based organizations, academia and the donor community.



One of the momentous highlights at the conference was when Dan Church Aid’s Secretary General, Henrik Stubkjær at the end of his Opening Speech handed over a letter of recognition and gratitude to the Minister of Women and Child Development on behalf of Denmark’s Minister of Development Corporation, Ulla Tørnæs for her initiation of the MDG3 National Call to Action Campaign. Inspired by Denmark’s MDG3 Global Call to Action Campaign, Malawi is successfully making an effort to inspire accelerated actions across sectors, and across all walks of life in Malawi towards gender equality and women empowerment.

During the conference 7 new organizations became MDG3 Torchbearers by pledging their commitment to “do something extra” within their sphere of influence towards the achievement of MDG3. At the three interactive workshops the discussions on needed interventions and innovative approaches to move the agenda of economic empowerment of women forward in Malawi further left promising footsteps behind in respect to the conclusion of a “Lilongwe Declaration” on economic empowerment of women.