{"id":3637,"date":"2017-05-30T10:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T06:21:22","slug":"tlc-meeting-in-sri-lanka-%c2%ac-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=3637","title":{"rendered":"TLC Meeting in Sri Lanka – LOGIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"18834607_880611225412517_1611684585_n\"<\/a>Local Governance Initiative and Network (LOGIN) is a multi-stakeholder network spanning countries of East and South Asia, which is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The network focuses on promoting knowledge exchange amongst its members on practices, processes and experiences relating to strengthening local governance. Members of LOGIN meet annually in a General Assembly which is held each year in December. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a follow up to the discussions held in the fourth General Assembly of LOGIN in December 2016, LOGIN has made significant investment in preparation to launch the Thematic Learning Communities (TLCs) in LOGIN. In May of 2017, the membership that had expressed an interest to join one of the Thematic Learning Communities met in Colombo to (i) get to know each other\u2019s practice, (ii) explore issues in the domain for which the respective member has expressed an interest, (iii) work towards identifying priority issues and (iv) draw up an action plan for the community. <\/span><\/p>\n

On behalf of EPD and as a representative of Afghan civil society, Mr. Khalid Siddiqi attended the TLC meeting as a member of Women\u2019s Political Empowerment community. During the three days, Mr. Siddiqi emphasized on the importance of Women, Peace and Security agenda, as outlined in the UNSCR 1325, and the special attention that is needed for women in conflict. Toward the end of that meeting it was concluded that EPD from Afghanistan, The Hunger Project (THP) from India, Women for Change from Mongolia and FSLGA from Sri Lanka will work together to develop the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

1)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> A joint 3-day Women\u2019s Political Empowerment (WPE) clinic to be held in New Delhi and attended to representatives from India, Afghanistan, Mongolia and Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

2)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> A joint two Capacity building training for trainers (ToT0 to be held in Ulaanbaatar and Colombo for Women for Change and FSLGA staff. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> A joint strategy clinic to be held by Afghanistan and India in Kabul on enhancing the advocacy skills of women\u2019s rights advocates to campaign for women\u2019s political empowerment. This clinic will be hosted by EPD with the main intent being making use of the Hunger Project\u2019s expertise on advocacy in India.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

4)<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> The final planned activity would be developing and finalizing a SWEEP (Strengthening Women\u2019s Empowerment in Electoral Process) manual to be used by THP to strengthen Indian women\u2019s participation in politics. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"18836338_880610422079264_1187670116_o\"<\/a>EPD has been a major advocate of women\u2019s rights in Afghanistan and it has women\u2019s empowerment as one of its founding principles. The organization\u2019s participation in the TLC meeting in Colombo or any other international event will be used as an opportunity to contribute to the empowerment of women in Afghanistan in any possible way. EPD is committed to seizing every opportunity that could potentially empower women in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local Governance Initiative and Network (LOGIN) is a multi-stakeholder network spanning countries of East and South Asia, which is supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. The network focuses on promoting knowledge exchange amongst its members on practices, processes and experiences relating to strengthening local governance. Members of LOGIN meet annually in a General Assembly which is held each year in December. Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}