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PGWNET
Executive Activities in Samoa for 2005
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 23rd
February: luncheon
Combined
function with SAWG
Luncheon,
speaker: Anne Favren, Intern Coordinator, United
Nations, New York
"How
to get a job at the UN"
8th
March: International
Women's Day Celebration
Event: Young
Women's Parliament
- comprising
final year secondary schoolgirls and their teachers, this event
was
held
at Samoa's Parliament complex.
- Objective: to
place emphasis on the move to increase women MPs.
This
was organized by Ina'ilau Women's Leadership Network (IWLN),
chaired by
Hon.
Fiame Naomi Mataafa, Minister for Education, Sports and Culture,
Samoa.
26th
May - luncheon - focus on women in politics - how
to succeed in national elections.
Arising out of the Young Women's Parliament and to encourage
women to be candidates,
an address by Masiofo Filifilia Tamasese on strategies to win
elections will
be the highlight of the May function. Masiofo Filifilia's husband
Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese
Efi was sworn in as one of the three Members of the Council
of Deputies (to
the Head of State) in December 2004. Till then, Tupua Tamasese
had been in politics
for 40 years, a Cabinet Minister in the early 70s, Prime Minister
(1976 - 1982),
Leader of the Opposition until 2001, and Member of Parliament
until December
2004.
12-14
September: SAWG-PGWNet conference
After
some deliberations, executives of SAWG and PGWNet adopted the
2005 Commonwealth
Day theme and adapted the IFUW action points as the subthemes
for
the SAWG-PGWnet 2005 conference.
Theme:
Creating opportunity and realizing
potential
and
4 subthemes:
 ICT
for empowerment
Education-
relevance is the key
 Reconciliation
- a means for peace
Health
- a Pacific focus
Keynote
speakers were drawn from leaders in the four subthemes and the
first to confirm
was Dr Akanisi Kedrayate, Chair, National Reconciliation Committee
of
Fiji
(and President of FAWG). The main keynote address was expected
to be delivered
by Hon Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary General - but this
did not
come to pass and the conference opening address was combined
with the keynote
address delivered by Hon Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime
Minister of Samoa.
The
conference dates were selected to coincide with the Samoa Teuila
festival which focuses
on cultural presentations, performances and displays - and this
added to the conference
events. This is also the end of the dry season and the weather
is normally cool
and pleasant.
Detailed
information may be obtained from the Conference
circular.
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