Uiwang City Holds Citizen Participation Group Activity Report on Women-Friendly City Initiatives

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Uiwang City held a 2019 Women-Friendly City Citizen Participation Group activity report meeting on the 19th at the Central Library's Cultural Hall.

The report meeting was held to review the active work carried out by the citizen participation group in creating a women-friendly city throughout the year and to encourage their efforts.

During the meeting, the citizen participation group reviewed major achievements including women-friendly city policy formation education for citizens, promotion of the women-friendly city designation at various events and festivals, monitoring of public facilities from a gender-aware perspective to identify improvements, and the hosting of gender equality forums, and exchanged opinions together.

Park Jin-ho, representative of the citizen participation group, said, "This year, the citizen participation group has worked hard to build a women-friendly city by establishing an organic collaborative system between the private and public sectors," and added, "We ask for continued interest and encouragement from citizens in the activities of the citizen participation group."

A city official said, "Since citizen participation is paramount in creating a women-friendly city, we hope the citizen participation group will continue to work actively with that responsibility in mind. We look forward to your continued efforts so that next year will also be a women-friendly city where all citizens can be happy," the official said.

Meanwhile, the citizen participation group, which completed a gender governance activist training program this year, plans to work to improve gender equality awareness among citizens in addition to monitoring activities starting next year.