40 Years of Ghana’s women’s machinery; Achievements, challenges and prospects
The National Council on Women and Development (NCWD) became Ghana’s first national women’s machinery (NWM), established in 1975 with a task to analyse issues concerning women and ensure the full integration of women in the society to enhance national development.
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This followed a United Nations (UN) resolution to member states to establish an appropriate government machinery to accelerate the integration of women in development and also initiate measures to deal with the discrimination against women.
Among other functions, NCWD was to advise the government on matters relating to women, to study some customary practices that were affecting women and also to improve women’s access to economic resources.
UN Commission
At the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) Session held in New York recently, Ghana’s side event organised by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection on the general theme: “40 Years of Ghana’s National Women’s Mach
