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Womens Strategy: The National Strategy is aiming at boosting the womans status to enable the community realize comprehensive rebirth, and unleash the womens energies to push ahead the ongoing renaissance, renewal and construction, and allow women participate fairly in work, production and publication.
Aims According to Priority:
The main programmes:
The Sudanese Women General Union: It is a voluntary organization, which is concerned with women to carry out their ultimate role in social development projects. Despite novelty of its inception in 1990, the union has scored the following achievements:
The Union is the Umbrella for Womans involvement in all the public activities and bears the greatest parts in planning, mobilization, organization and work for the development of women in cooperation with woman specialized organizations and social ministries etc. with aim of involving the Sudanese woman in external and internal activities.
The Union Structure: The Union is composed of the general secretarial and other nine specialized secretarial which are: The Political, Social, Economic, Education, Training and Up-grading, Culture and Information and Public Relations, States Coordination, Financial and administrative and external relations secretariats. Sudanese Woman General Union (Congress System): It represents all the Sudanese women in 26 states. Each state is composing of a number of provinces and in each province and rural council there is a branch woman union. In other words, there are 12,000 woman unions in all the states.
The Unions Performance in the light Of the National Comprehensive Strategy: All the Unions Secretariats at all levels are abiding and tracing the National Comprehensive Strategy in addition to the Unions strategy and programms.
Social Secretariats Performance: The social secretariats in both the center and the states are concerned with social activities, which are regarded as the pillar of the social transformation, which in turn leads to the civilizational project. The period from June 1994 February 1995 was determined and chosen to asses the performance of the secretariats. The Secretariats have carried out the following achievements: 19 mass marriages, 66 cases of male group circumcision, 178 convoys of the mujahideens food supplies, 84 programe for female inmates, 39 centers for easing living costs, 14 disaster control programmes, 29 hospital visits, 8 child carnivals, 2251 Al-Humaira Councils, 478 symposiums and lectures, 56 cooperatives, 22 Eid Happiness exhibitions, 43 programmes for the martyrs families, 3822 subsidized shopping fairs, 31 programes for the displaced, 844 kindergartens, 3141 fast breaking banquets and 1677 intellectual symposia.
Health Activities: Concerning health activities, the secretariats have scored the following:
Education: Concerning informal schooling, the states have opened illiteracy eradication classes and Quranic schools (Khalwas) for women. The following figures explain number of classes, Khalwas and kindergartens established by the Sudanese Women General Union in January 1995:
Performance of the Political Secretariats During October 1992 October 1995: The Sudanese Women Unions Secretariats have got concerned during this period with the organization of conferences in all the states and formation of woman sector and preparation for the general election in all the state constituencies. Thus, the Union has attacked a large number of active women through its political programmes; that is to say the majority of the Sudanese women are backing the National Salvation Revolution. In addition to the political mobilization programme, the political secretariat have followed the developments at the political landscape which required issuance of communiques or sending of cables or organization of processions (condemnation of the Population conference held in Cairo, the Ibrahimite massacre committed by the Israelis, the Gasper Beros report). The Union organization other processions to celebrate restoration of towns in the south. Regarding the Unions Societies, associations and clubs, the secretariats has established associations of female innovators, presswomen and business women clubs and the women society in south Kordofan etc.
THE SUDANESE WOMENS GENERAL UNION (SWGU) Name of the Organization: The Sudanese Womens General Union (SWGU).Kind of Organization : Voluntary Organization.Date of Establishment : January 1990.Address : Khartoum, P.O.Box : 10732Tel. : 785749Fax : 774175
Goals and Objectives :
Regional and International Organizations To which SWGU is a member:
Organizations and Associations Working Under Its Banner:
SWGUs Structure : The Union is composed of secretariats elected through conferences organized at the grassroots level (village and quarter) and at the level of localities, provinces and the States. It has also a national secretariat and an advisory council, which includes academic institutions. The Union has 16,000 branches distributed in 26 states.
Membership of the Union : SWGUs membership is open for every Sudanese woman of 18 years of age or above.
The Union Activities :
SWGUs Leadership : The National Secretariats is composed of 8 Secretariats supervised by expert women headed by secretary-general as supervisor of the Unions activities.
Curriculum Vitae (C.Vs.)
4. Secretary of the Organizational Secretariat :
5. Secretary of the Economic Development Secretariats :
10.Chairman of Businesswomens club :
11.Chairman of Sudanese Media Womens League :
12.Secretary of Working Women :
International Muslim Women Union
Joining the international effort to up-grade women general standard and to increase the degree of awareness, an International Muslim Women Union has been established on 3rd August 1996.
Objective and Nature: The International Muslim Women union is an international Islamic, non-governmental, independent organization, with its head quarter in Khartoum, Sudan.
Objectives:
Means: In order to achieve its objectives, the union shall take all legal means such as:
Institutions of the Union: The governing institutions of the union are the General congress (The supreme authority of the union that convenes every three years) its membership composed of representative of organizations, individuals who accept the objectives to the union and from participation of International figures.
The Board of Trustees: The Board of Trustees consist of sixty able and distinguished members who believe in the objective of the union. Meetings once every year, the B.T. has held its accepted distinguished women as honorary members.
The General Secretariat: The General secretariat is the super operational institution of the union. It is headed by the Secretary General, and is consisted of twelve members who assist the Secretary General and are called:
Plus other five assistant Secretary General, nominated by the Secretary General.
Seat of the Union: The union has its seat in the Sudan as its headquarters and center for the General Secretariat.
Project: International Muslim Women Union (IMWU) proposed studied projects that can be implemented in the different region of its activities:
Address: International Muslim Women Union (IMWU) P.O. Box: 13519 Khartoum Sudan Tel. / Fax: +(249)(11) 772 767 |