{"id":32846,"date":"2016-09-30T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=32846"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:33:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T09:33:50","slug":"parliamentary-womens-caucus-launches-strategic-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/09\/30\/parliamentary-womens-caucus-launches-strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary Women\u2019s Caucus launches strategic plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Women\u2019s Caucus (PWC) has launched a strategic plan which will encourage women to become members of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there are only 32 women members of Parliament out of the 193 legislators.<\/p>\n<p>But according to Chairperson of the caucus, Jessie Kabwila, this number has to be increased to be in line with the Gender Equality Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch of the 2016- 2019 strategic plan is very crucial because if you don\u2019t plan, then you are planning to fail. We look at this as a road map to how we are going to bring back women of Malawi into Parliament,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the strategic plan is one way of enhancing gender equality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople out there must know that a woman is a leader, a woman is a citizen, a woman does not apologise for who she is and she is equally a beneficiary of this country\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>UN Women Representative Clara Anyangwe said UN Women supported the caucus in developing the strategic plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUN Women supported PWC in developing the first ever strategic plan aimed at boosting the operations of the caucus in advancing the gender agenda. This was also one of the core activities of the caucus as failing to plan is planning to fail,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Women\u2019s Caucus (PWC) has launched a strategic plan which will encourage women to become members of Parliament. Currently, there are only 32 women members of Parliament out of the 193 legislators. But according to Chairperson of the caucus, Jessie Kabwila, this number has to be increased to be in line with the Gender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32848,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32846\/revisions\/32848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}