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Increase appointment of women in government - WiLDAF tells Nana Addo

WILDAF takes this opportunity to congratulate the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and all the 37 women who were elected to parliament during the 2016 elections.

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Addressing the press in Accra, a board member of WiLDAF, Magdalene Kannae, said they expected more women to be appointed to Ministerial positions and the other public offices and committees to fight discrimination against them.

"The purpose of this press conference is to bring to light the low number of women nominated by the president in his first three batches of ministerial appointments and to remind the government of its obligations to promote and ensure gender equality at all levels," she added.

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"As you are aware, only 9 women have so far been nominated to occupy ministerial positions out of a total of 36 which represents just 25%. This falls short of the International, Regional and National standards as well as the New Patriotic Party’s own provision of minimum threshold of 30% women’s representation in its 2016 “Change an Agenda for Jobs," Magdalene Kannae said.

"As you are aware, only nine women have so far been nominated to occupy ministerial positions out of a total of 36, which represent just 25 per cent. This falls short of international, regional and national standards, as well as the New Patriotic Party’s own vision of a minimum threshold of 30 per cent of women’s representation in its 2016 change and agenda for jobs, stated specifically in page 129 [of the NPP’s manifesto]."

"WILDAF takes this opportunity to congratulate the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and all the 37 women who were elected to parliament during the 2016 elections. We also congratulate Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings for being a great inspiration to women and for being the first female to appear on the ballot paper as a presidential candidate since independence. She did take a bold step.

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"We also warmly salute all the women who contested the parliamentary elections but could not make it to parliament – you made women of Ghana proud," she said.

WiLDAF however, called on the "NPP Government to fulfill its Social Development agenda provision under their 2016 manifesto of having at least 30% women in public office; appointments to Ministerial, Deputy Ministerial, Ambassadorial positions, District Assemblies including District Chief Executives and Government Appointees, Public Boards, Commissions, and Councils.

"The Appointments Committee of Parliament should reject the Executive’s list of nominations for Ministerial, Deputy Ministerial and other public appointments if the list does not contain at least 30% females;

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Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and Attorney-General’s Office must expedite the process of resubmitting to Parliament the Affirmative Action (Gender Equality) Bill," She noted.

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