To further empower women and achieve gender equality, the government is also partnering with the United Nations Development programme, UNDP, to include a gender perspective in all of its economic plans. Through UNDP's Gender & Economic Policy Management Initiative, GEPMI, some 34 policy makers – men and women – attended a weeklong workshop in late 2012 to learn how to create gender sensitive policies.
Katika kongamano hilo la siku tatu masuala makuu manne yatajadiliwa ikiwa ni pamoja na jukumu la mwanamke katika maendeleo ya usawa wa kijinsia, wanawake waathirika wa vita na wahandisi wa amani, usawa wa kijinsia na changamoto za mazingira na pia jukumu la UNESCO kama mchagizaji wa mabadiliko kupitia elimu,sayansi, utamaduni, mawasiliano na taarifa.