Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 14 December, the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan hosted a meeting of the Council of the joint project "Achieving Equality by Supporting the Implementation of the Strategy for Achieving Gender Equality in the Republic of Uzbekistan".

The meeting was attended by the Chairman of the Senate Tanzila Narbayeva, Permanent Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Uzbekistan Matilda Dimovska, senior officials of the upper chamber of the Oliy Majlis, representatives of UNDP in Uzbekistan and the media.

The meeting participants discussed the results of the implementation of the joint project of the Senate of the Oliy Majlis and UNDP “Achieving equality by supporting the implementation of the strategy for achieving gender equality in the Republic of Uzbekistan”, as well as the work plan for 2023.

It should be mentioned that the main goal of the project is to promote systemic changes in the field of gender equality and the empowerment of women, as well as the transformation of stereotypes and norms that are firmly rooted in society.

The Chairman of the Senate Tanzila Narbayeva noted that the nationwide study, which was conducted jointly with the project, helped to identify the root causes of gender stereotypes and patriarchal attitudes specifically for each region of the study, as well as to identify various forms of discrimination among the population. Thus, the application of jointly developed recommendations will give impetus to the deployment of holistic and systemic transformations at the regional, district and local levels, combined with information and educational support, and increased responsibility of citizens.

In turn, Matilda Dimovska stressed that recently Uzbekistan has decisively achieved excellent positive results on issues of gender equality. Such a positive image of Uzbekistan has already been formed at the international level, and this is already a generally recognized fact. Undoubtedly, a lot of work has been done in Uzbekistan in the field of ensuring gender equality, important steps and efforts have been taken in this direction, which are systematically and progressively continuing.

As a result of the meeting, proposals were developed for a work plan for 2023 as part of a joint project in the field of empowering women leaders, improving socio-economic conditions and opportunities for women, as well as preventing and combating violence against women.