The Colombian Green Party successfully organized this first national summit of Green women in the country’s capital. Several hundred elected women and women in leadership positions from across the country attended this meeting, which aimed, among other things, to strengthen the party’s internal institutional structures to guarantee equality, transparency, impact, and opportunities for women at the national level.
During the opening of the summit, the party’s Co-President, Rodrigo Romero Hernández, described the meeting as historic for its democratic and constructive spirit.
“Today we are repaying a debt to the Green women of Colombia. We are holding the first National Summit of Women of the Green Alliance. This is our home; here we campaign and train to lead the country with knowledge and identity. Politics in Colombia is not easy, even more so for women, due to the gender and political violence they face every day in their public and leadership roles.”
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“However, from our Party, we have worked and are strengthening ourselves to generate spaces for participation and ongoing training, spaces for integration to listen to women and together solve the challenges that lie ahead. We hope to continue building and strengthening our community, hand in hand with women. Today, we have a wealth of female leaders, like our women congresswomen, who have vehemently spearheaded projects and debates on political oversight that we Colombians need. But we also have women representatives, councilors, mayors, and councilwomen, who with a vision for the country have diligently built an agenda around the defense of life, the environment, and gender equality. To all of them, a fraternal greeting of admiration from this, your Green home.”
For his part, the Party’s General Secretary, Jaime Navarro Wolff, stated, “We appreciate the effort of coming to Bogotá to experience this moment of Green women. Today, we are filled with pride and joy by the representation of women from each department at this great summit, where they will deliberate on strategic and critical issues.” women’s empowerment.”
“We need to territorialize women’s efforts, by organizing departmental and municipal committees throughout the country, as well as promoting an agenda that encompasses not only the defense of rights, but also the challenge we face in the political transformation of the Green Alliance Party in the country.”
During the convention, the Think Tank, led by its director Lina Quevedo, and the School of Government, directed by Laura Vásquez, methodologically developed constructive and proactive work groups around topics such as mitigating political and gender-based violence within and outside the Green Alliance Party, to guarantee protection, access to justice, and safe conditions for women’s participation in all spaces.
They made progress in building scenarios to guarantee equal political participation and the effective representation of women in elected positions, the decentralization of decision-making, and effective coordination between national, departmental, and municipal levels to strengthen women’s advocacy at all levels.
Equally important, they worked on building processes in political, technical, and leadership training, accompanied by ongoing support, to strengthen women’s capacities in all territories. Positioning the care economy as a pillar of development and promoting women’s economic autonomy in political, social, and productive life was another component addressed.
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Other key aspects discussed included:
How to strengthen the Party’s (internal) institutional structures to guarantee equality, transparency, impact, and opportunities for women at the national level?
How to make visible, recognize, and support female leadership at the national, departmental, and municipal levels?
How to guarantee women’s full access to healthcare, inclusive and quality education, decent work, social protection, and the elimination of discrimination?
How to strengthen women’s role in peacebuilding, environmental protection, and the protection of all forms of life?
How can we consolidate sisterhood, support networks among women, and a non-patriarchal organizational culture within the Party and in the regions?
