WIMMERA councils plan to advance gender equity in the region in a joint project.
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Horsham Rural City Council and West Wimmera, Hindmarsh and Yarriambiack shires have partnered to deliver a gender equity in community engagement project.
Over 12 months, the councils plan to improve the way they engage with its community so that a diversity of women’s voices are better heard.
Horsham Rural City’s chief executive Sunil Bhalla said the council was committed to “improving and strengthening” community engagement to ensure that everyone, particularly women and girls, can participate.
“It is important that we all work together to increase awareness and develop a greater understanding in community engagement of how gender inequality can lead to violence against women,” he said.
Mr Bhalla said preventing family violence was a key part of the council’s Health and Wellbeing Policy.
“We recognise that men and women have different access to resources, power, responsibilities and life experiences,” he said. “Therefore different strategies and engagement methods are necessary to achieve equitable outcomes for all our community.”
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