The two-day seminar "Development of special courses for civil servants on gender-oriented management" started on Monday in Ashgabat. The project was organized by UNDP and UNFPA together with the Government of Turkmenistan.

UNDP is a long-standing partner of the Government of Turkmenistan in the development of educational courses on human rights. "Such courses help governments to make more effective decisions to achieve gender equality, including with regard to gender mainstreaming policy, which is one of the most effective ways to promote women's empowerment," Tomica Paovich, Deputy Permanent Representative of UNDP in Turkmenistan, said in his speech.

Following the results of the seminar, the working group on the development and integration of courses will present comments and recommendations to the draft educational program, which will be digitized in the future and submitted to the Government of Turkmenistan for further adoption as a mandatory course for civil servants.

In addition, the development and implementation of this course will contribute to the implementation of the National Action Plan for Human Rights in Turkmenistan for 2021-2025 and the National Action Plan for Gender Equality in Turkmenistan for 2021-2025, as well as the Gender Equality Strategy of the United Nations Development Program for 2022- 2025.

The seminar was organized within the framework of the three-year UNDP project "Assistance in the implementation of the National Action Plan of Turkmenistan in the field of human Rights for 2021-2025", as well as within the framework of the UNFPA work plans for 2022 and 2023 "Assistance in strengthening the system and mechanisms for the promotion of gender equality", implemented jointly with the Institute of State, Law and Democracy of Turkmenistan.

The seminar will continue its work tomorrow.

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