Objective of the directorate
Realizing the Agency’s vision and missionof ensuring equity, fairness and availability in pharmaceuticals supply and distribution to women, children, the youth and persons with disabilities through mainstreaming gender issues, raising awareness and empowering women.
Mission of the directorate
Ensuring the gender sensitivity of policies, programs, projects, laws, directives and bylaws formulated under the supply system towards realizing equity, fairness, participation, accessibility and decision making of women, children, the youth and persons with disabilities. It sets out to raise awareness towards making the issue of gender institutional and strengthening integration through the establishment of women’s forum in all the nineteen branches, undertaking follow up and support, empowering women in various stages and working towards raising the number of women in leadership positions.
Main activities of the directorate
- It organizes women in the nineteen branches to draw up objectives and produce reports on the implementation of those objectives. It motivates, follows up, supports and provides feedback to these women’s forums;
- It organizes a consultative meeting once a year to motivate, reward and foster cooperation among women;
- It works with governmental and non-governmental organizations to provide short and long term educational opportunities for employees in the head office and branches;
- It coordinates blood donation programs;
- It facilitates cervical and breast cancer tests for women;
- It follows up on the 30 children the Agency supports;
- It undertakes cooperative work for those in need of help, for the sick and the families of the deceased through the women’s forum.