ELECAM, UN Women to boost massive participation of women at next polls

By DOH JAMES SONKEY Elections Cameroon, ELECAM and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, UN Women, are multiplying strategies to boost massive participation of women at upcoming polls in Cameroon. In order to achieve their target, these institutions reinforced the capacities of political parties’ officials during a workshop so that they can adopt gender sensitive internal documents in prelude to municipal and legislative elections in Cameroon. Organized last June 28, 2019 in Yaounde, the workshop was officially opened by the Director General of Elections at ELECAM, Erik Essousse who expressed hope that the adoption…