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Commonwealth Women in Leadership Essay Competition

Date: 17/06/2013 to 19/06/2013     Type: Online

Deadline: April 8, 2013

Are you a young person in the Commonwealth aged 15 and 29? Are you passionate about issues affecting women in leadership and enterprise and would you like to influence the Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers Meeting? Then make your views count by entering the Commonwealth Women in Leadership essay competition.
The Gender Section of the Secretariat is organizing the Commonwealth ?Women in Leadership? essay competition prior to the 10th Commonwealth Women?s Affairs Ministers Meeting (10WAMM) to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 17-19 June 2013. The theme of the meeting is ?Women?s Leadership for Enterprise?.Given that youth form 60 per cent of the Commonwealth population, bringing them into the decision-making process is vital. They are therefore seeking the perspectives and opinions of the young Commonwealth on the 10WAMM theme.

Eligibility:
All youth in the Commonwealth are invited to participate
You must be between the ages of 15 and 29 years

How to Participate:
Young Commonwealth is invited to participate by answering one of the following questions.
1. How and why should governments encourage women?s leadership? or
2. How and why should governments encourage women-owned enterprises?

Prize:
The winner will be sponsored to participate in the 10th Women Affairs Ministers Meeting (10WAMM) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 17 to 19 June 2013.

Contact:
For further enquiries, contact
Homaira Sikandary
Email: genderessay@commonwealth.int
Telephone: +44 0207 747 6275
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36 Comments

  • Rohan Kapur says :
    Thanks for Sharing the report
    Posted 25-06-2013 20:47

  • says :
    @Smriti Why don't you ask it via genderessay@commonwealth.int ? :-)
    Posted 04-04-2013 14:39

  • says :
    Can countries outside commonwealth countries participate llike Nepal?
    Posted 03-04-2013 21:28

  • says :
    good...
    Posted 03-04-2013 16:42

  • says :
    Wow great~~
    Posted 02-04-2013 16:52

Eco Generation

  • says :
    thanks for sharing.
    Posted 30-03-2013 13:59

  • says :
    Great to join this!
    Posted 30-03-2013 02:54

  • says :
    Sharing is Caring :)
    Posted 30-03-2013 00:32

  • says :
    nice opportunity for ladies
    Posted 29-03-2013 22:09

  • says :
    great topic.
    Posted 29-03-2013 21:44

  • says :
    I will surely participate.
    Posted 29-03-2013 19:56

  • says :
    thanks for sharing.
    Posted 29-03-2013 19:50

  • says :
    great topic.
    Posted 29-03-2013 15:07

  • says :
    women leadership is a great topic.
    Posted 29-03-2013 11:31

  • says :
    great.
    Posted 29-03-2013 10:17

  • says :
    great.
    Posted 29-03-2013 09:55

  • says :
    great opportunity for ladies.
    Posted 29-03-2013 09:52

  • says :
    great opportunity for us we have use it effectively.thanks for sharing.
    Posted 29-03-2013 09:31

  • says :
    great opportunity for us.
    Posted 29-03-2013 09:15

  • says :
    Now i think i wish to be a women... )
    Posted 29-03-2013 02:25

  • says :
    Although it was for female, nice post and thanks for sharing
    Posted 29-03-2013 02:12

  • says :
    great opportunity for female.
    Posted 29-03-2013 01:48

  • says :
    Dear Czar Demeterio, this is only for female!
    Posted 29-03-2013 01:10

  • says :
    great.
    Posted 29-03-2013 01:04

  • says :
    thanks for sharing.
    Posted 29-03-2013 00:31

  • Czar Demeterio says :
    can male write essays as entries also? or is this competition bound for females only?
    Posted 28-03-2013 22:35

  • says :
    thanks for sharing.
    Posted 28-03-2013 10:39

  • says :
    Thanks for the report.
    Posted 28-03-2013 10:17

  • says :
    Yes Unmesh, this is only for femal.
    Posted 28-03-2013 02:51

  • says :
    can a male participate? or it is only for the female?
    Posted 27-03-2013 23:43

  • says :
    Great, I am going to paticipate
    Posted 27-03-2013 21:53

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