International Women's Day 2012
International Women’s Day will be celebrated on Thursday March 8 2012. The entire month of March has become a landmark month for events which celebrates and champions women for their achievements in families, communities, organisations and politics. Why not make a think women for local government a theme in 2012? Now is a good time to start planning. Want some ideas?
Local government and community IWD events and ideas
Think Women for Local Government 2012 Project
Our partnership project funded by the Victorian Government, Think Women for Local Government 2012, aims to build a diversity of women candidates in every ward in every municipality in the 2012 local government elections.
VLGA Women's Policy Advisory Group
Gender equality, inviting diversity and supporting the active citizenship of women form three sides of a triangle creating a local government political and civic culture which invites women’s participation. Contributing to VLGA’s work in this area, women’s policy activities support strategies towards strengthening local governments, in particular those of showing leadership and supporting good governance. For enquiries about the VLGA’s
Women’s Policy Advisory Group and other VLGA policy in this area, please contact Linda Bennett (details at the bottom of this page).
Women's Participation in Local Government Coalition
The VLGA has provided secretariat support for the
Women's Participation in Local Government Coalition (WPILGC) since 2000. This non-party political Coalition of key statewide local government peak, community and philanthropic organisations, women councillors and individual women, was formed in 1996 to work towards the equal participation of women and men in local governments in Victoria. The Coalition aims to achieve the three principles of the Victorian Local Government Women's Charter, first created in 1996: gender equity, diversity, and the active citizenship of women in Victorian local governments.
Victorian Local Government Women's Charter
Check out the opportunities for implementing the
Victorian Women's Charter's three principles of gender equity, diversity and active citizenship. Click here to view the
Women's Charter Checklist Tool. Other tools will be uploaded to the WPILG webpage (above) soon. As of 5 October 2011, 60 of the 79 local governments have endorsed the Charter, with many creating action plans to ensure councils walk the talk of the three principles.
VLGA Women's Policy Overview
For more than 12 years the VLGA has been demonstrating leadership around the issues affecting women councillors and citizens and their participation in local governments. In 1999, VLGA became an active member of the Women’s Participation in Local Government Coalition (WPILGC) and has undertaken the Secretariat role for this Coalition since 2000.
In 2005, the VLGA appointed what was possibly the first peak local government Women’s Policy Officer. The
VLGA’s Women’s Policy Advisory Group reports to the VLGA Board about issues which support the VLGA’s role in this area.
The VLGA is a major signatory to the
Victorian Local Government Women’s Charter which has three principles: gender equity, diversity and active citizenship.
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Bring the vitality of women into local governments
In recognition of the 2010 National Year of Women in Local Government, the VLGA designed and produced two items which local governments and community groups can use to promote, celebrate and encourage women to ‘think local government’.
DOWNLOAD flyer
The VLGA encourages you to borrow the design and messages, with acknowledgment, for your own products.
Thinking of standing for mayor this year?
Here is some interesting reading about leadership and doing it differently. Follow the links below:
Resources and Data
International website links - different cultures similar issues
Contact
Women's Policy Officer
Linda Bennett
T: +61 3 9349 7904
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