OSCE Centre helps train Tajik civil servants to implement gender equality policies

KHOROG, 28 July 2006 - Raising awareness of gender equality issues among civil servants and providing them with gender analysis tools for their everyday work were the aims of a five-day OSCE-supported training course which ended in Khorog today.

"The technical support provided by the OSCE to the Civil Service Training Institute, which organized the event, helped promote the introduction of gender aspects into the training curriculum for civil servants," said Gunta Robezniece, Gender Issues Officer in the OSCE Centre in Dushanbe.

Munira Inoyatova, Rector of the Training Institute, emphasized that Tajikistan's legislation met all international requirements concerning gender equality. "To give civil servants the tools to analyze the implementation of the adopted legislation and the programmes in place will empower the country's civil service to become more effective in implementing gender policy regulations."

The seminar participants were trained on the basic concepts of gender theory, main components of gender analysis, gender budgeting, gender issues and the legislative basis that guarantees gender equality in Tajikistan. Similar courses are planned to take place in Dushanbe, Kurgan-Tube and Khujand in the second half of 2006.