Brunei has highest proportion of female executives in ASEAN: Report

Brunei Darussalam has the best proportion of feminine executives within the personal sector inside ASEAN, in response to the 2021 ASEAN Gender Outlook, a joint report between ASEAN and UN Ladies.

Minister of Tradition, Youth and Sports activities Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Nazmi bin Haji Mohamad in a press release delivered in a video convention throughout the ASEAN Ministerial Assembly on Social Welfare and Growth on Thursday, stated there’s excessive illustration of girls in public coverage and determination making.

However such progress, Brunei Darussalam expressed dedication to furthering girls’s improvement, and shared the result of the just lately concluded one-year Analysis on Ladies’s Growth in Brunei Darussalam.

The convention, themed ‘Accelerating ASEAN’s Commitments for Gender Equality and Inclusivity via Gender Mainstreaming and Social Inclusion’ was attended by all ASEAN ministers liable for social welfare and improvement and the ASEAN Secretary-Basic.

Malaysian Minister of Ladies, Household and Neighborhood Growth Dato’ Sri Hajah Nancy Shukri chaired the assembly.

Dato Seri Setia Awang Haji Nazmi welcomed this yr’s theme, and shared that empowering girls, which make up 47 per cent of the inhabitants, is vital to unlocking the total potential of the Sultanate’s nationwide improvement efforts, and as such, the development of girls and women rank extremely within the nationwide agenda.

The minister reaffirmed the advantages of social inclusion and increasing higher social safety for all segments of society in the direction of guaranteeing a sustainable and prime quality of life, consistent with Brunei Imaginative and prescient 2035. He additionally shared vital enhancements to social welfare insurance policies and laws in Brunei.

These embrace amendments to the Outdated Age Pension and Incapacity Allowances Act in addition to a brand new legislation on Individuals with Disabilities, each of which got here into drive on October 1, 2021, and launched new advantages and social safety for the aged and individuals with disabilities.

The minister added that the nation is within the remaining stage of formulating a Social Blueprint for Brunei Imaginative and prescient 2035, particularly in the direction of the attainment of Purpose 2: Excessive High quality of Life, aimed to be a complete and strategic doc guiding the insurance policies and techniques of stakeholders to make sure social improvement within the Sultanate is sustainable, inclusive and resilient.

The Blueprint may also have a look at enhancing and guaranteeing folks’s well-being and security, in addition to growing and empowering a resilient society.

The minister welcomed ASEAN’s shared resolve to strengthen the household establishment, particularly via the Bandar Seri Begawan Declaration on the significance of Household for Neighborhood Growth and Nation Constructing, which reinforces a whole-of-ASEAN technique to additional help household well-being, resilience and solidarity.

“Robust households play a important function in constructing robust communities and resilient nations, and subsequently, the main target shouldn’t simply be on the person, but additionally on the broader eco-system,” he stated.

On the assembly, the ministers reaffirmed ASEAN’s dedication to advertise gender equality via gender mainstreaming and social inclusion within the ASEAN area pursuant to the ASEAN Neighborhood Imaginative and prescient 2025 and the ASEAN Socio-Cultural Neighborhood Blueprint 2025, in addition to varied ASEAN declarations and plans of motion.

ASEAN reaffirmed the implementation of ASEAN’s commitments as integral to attaining the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth.

The seventh ASEAN Plus Three Ministerial Assembly on Social Welfare and Growth (seventh AMMSWD+3), held on Thursday, was attended by ministers liable for social welfare and improvement from China, Japan and Korea.

The ministers reiterated dedication to strengthening and deepening ASEAN Plus Three cooperation and underscored the mutually reinforcing and complementary nature of the ASEAN Plus Three and different ASEAN-led frameworks.

The conferences had been preceded by the 2nd ASEAN Excellent Social Welfare and Growth Awards (AOSWADA) on Wednesday, by way of video convention, aiming to recognise non-governmental organisations (NGOs) or civil society organisations (CSOs) and personal corporations from ASEAN member states which have made vital contributions within the subject of welfare and social improvement.

This yr, SMARTER Brunei was awarded the NGO/CSO AOSWADA Award, whereas Baiduri Financial institution acquired the Non-public Sector AOSWADA Award, in recognition of contributions within the subject of social welfare and improvement in Brunei Darussalam benefitting individuals with disabilities, kids and the youth.

Everlasting Secretary (Neighborhood) on the Ministry of Tradition, Youth and Sports activities Hajah Nor Ashikin binti Haji Johari, and senior ministry officers additionally attended the assembly.

The assembly was additionally preceded by the seventeenth ASEAN GO-NGO Discussion board on Social Welfare and Growth on Monday; the 18th Senior Officers Assembly on Social Welfare and Growth on Tuesday; and the seventeenth Assembly of the ASEAN Plus Three Senior Officers Assembly on Social Welfare and Growth (seventeenth SOMSWD+3) on Wednesday.