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Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (WRGE) Report from a Seminar for Norwegian Embassies
The Regional seminar on women’s rights and gender equality is an opportunity for embassies to exchange information and experience and be updated technically on important policy issues. It serves as a platform for close interaction between staff at the embassies and relevant sections withinMFA and Norad. The regional seminars take place bi‐annually. The first regional seminar in 2010 took place in Lilongwe, Malawi with participants from the embassies in Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Malawi, and South Africa and from Nepal and the Regional HIV/AIDS team based in Lusaka. Technically the seminar was organized under the auspices of the Peace, Gender and Democracy Department (Norad) with the Embassy in Lilongwe as a logistical partner. The WRGE seminar could piggy back on a seminar for Malawian female parliamentarians that was organized in partnership between the Norwegian Embassy and the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities. Experiences from that seminar could be brought forward to the WRGE seminar.