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Transform society to achieve gender equality, says Museveni

Stephen Kalema by Stephen Kalema
6 years ago
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President Museveni has said gender equality can only be achieved if societies transform and develop.

Speaking at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD 25) at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, Museveni pointed out that gender inequality was as old as man. .

“Human beings have been here for four-and-a-half million years. Most of that time, gender inequality has been there,” he said. “Therefore, I want to point out that you cannot achieve this equality if society does not change itself,” he told the hundreds of delegates and Heads of State on Tuesday.

The three-day conference is being marked 25 years after the inaugural summit in Cairo, Egypt that made a case for gender equality and supporting advancement of women and girls.

The Ugandan leader, according to a statement by the Presidential Press Unit added: “You cannot keep a pre-capitalist society in existence and you think you will achieve easily gender equality and other goals. I urge the organisers of this conference to add to their literature the words the social-economic transformation of the whole society.”

Citing the case of Europe, Museveni said they had made strides in gender equality because they had managed to change the income fortunes of their people.

” You cannot keep a traditional society and then make it achieve middle-class goals. Even Europe was like this. It was just in the last few centuries when middle-class values were achieved. In the UK until 1911, the women were not voting,” said the President.

He observed that the creation of jobs is important in this fight because jobless, poor people are vulnerable and susceptible to exploitation. The President added that with joblessness, even good legislation on equality would run into implementation challenges.

Counselling the young people and those making a case for gender equality, the President advised that they must consult the elders and parents, whom he labelled “consultants”.

“I heard the slogan ‘girls must own their bodies’. Speaking as a veteran husband, father, grandfather and freedom fighter, I advise that even when you own something, you must engage consultants. The young people must seek advice,” he said.

About Uganda’s commitment to support gender equality and fulfil the targets set out in Cairo 25 years ago, He said the country would stand firm in eliminating obstacles that stand in the way of empowering girls including teenage pregnancy, child marriage and all forms of gender-based violence.

“We shall scale up technical and vocational training to create life skills relevant to the labour market,” said the President. “We will do this while upholding the positive cultural and religious values.”

He announced Uganda’s commitment to promoting universal access to all methods of family planning and reduce the unmet need for family planning access from 28% to 10% by 2022.

This will be complemented with an increase in financial support towards reproductive health and family planning supplies and commodities.

He also, to the excitement of the audience, said Uganda will operationalise the national sexuality educational policy framework that the ministry of education launched in 2018.

This, he said, will provide a national formal direction for age-appropriate and culturally-sensitive sexuality education in Uganda’s schools.

“We will do this while upholding positive cultural and religious values of our countries,” he said, adding that efforts to transform and modernize society would also see the country invest in critical sectors like electricity generation.

The summit was addressed by over 10 heads of state and government, who made their own commitments towards achieving gender equality.

The lively audience was treated to a series of entertainment, including a performance by legendary Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour, who got a standing ovation following his song “New Africa”.

Present were host President Uhuru Kenyatta, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, United Nations Population Fund Executive Director Natalia Kanem, among other leaders.


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