Tanzania hits 30 percent target of women representation in parliament

Here's a bit of good news about one of the countries Fiona and I will be working in:

Tanzania has become the third country within the South African Development Community (SADC) to have attained the target of having women taking up at least 30 percent of the country's parliamentary seats.

The registration of parliamentary swear-in's showed that 97 women had been sworn in by the parliament which met on December 30 in Dodoma in central Tanzania.

The number of women as against the total of 319 members of parliament stands a 30.4 percent of women representation in the parliament, just in accordance with the 1997 SADC declaration that required signatory countries to attain 30 percent of women representation in decision-making posts by the end of 2005.

Posted by flow Frazao on January 3, 2006 at 11:04 AM in Africa, Microfinancing | Permalink