Banjul City Mayor Rohey Malick Lowe Writes
It is my honor and privilege to announce that I am nominated to serve as a member of The UCLG Standing Committee on Gender Equality.
The Committee has been repeatedly acknowledged as the global voice of the locally elected women by national governments and the United
Nations as the main body promoting gender equality, feminist municipal leadership and the motor behind the UCLG Women Facility in the world .
The Committee ,comprises of nominated representatives of each of the UCLG world sections, and is led by an elected Chair, Fatimetou Abdel Malick, President of the Nouakchott Region who doubles up as the President of The United Cities of Local Government Africa (UCLGA).
We have the following mandate:
1. To promote, ensure, and monitor the active participation of women in all
their diversity, including in all governance and decision-making structures
of the World Organization, such as the Policy Councils.
2. To hold the World Organization accountable for promoting and mainstreaming
gender equality throughout its processes and network and its advocacy,
knowledge co-creation and innovation work areas, including through supervising
the implementation of the All UCLG Gender Equality Strategy.
3. Nurture, drive and amplify the global Feminist Municipal Movement, which
puts care, equality, proximity, solidarity, trust and participation at the heart of
policies and action and is an essential force in unfolding the UCLG Pact for the
Future.
4. Ensure links between the global agendas and regional and local priorities,
grounding our Organization’s policies and actions in local realities while localizing
the global agendas.
Congratulations to all the nominees and a big thank you to the people of Banjul, by extension The Gambia am grateful.
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