{"id":288,"date":"2026-05-21T18:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/?p=288"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:08:20","slug":"rwandas-gender-progress-is-more-than-numbers-says-undp-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\u2019s Gender Progress Is More Than Numbers, Says UNDP Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative in Rwanda, Dr. Fatmata, has praised Rwanda\u2019s achievements in gender equality, saying the country\u2019s progress goes beyond increasing the number of women in leadership positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She made the remarks on May 21, 2026, during a dialogue organized by the Rwanda Women Parliamentary Forum focusing on gender equality, leadership responsibilities, and gender-responsive budgeting under Rwanda\u2019s NST2 development program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Fatmata said Rwanda\u2019s transformation over the past three decades is one of the world\u2019s most remarkable stories in promoting women\u2019s participation in governance. She noted that women occupied only 23% of parliamentary seats after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, while today Rwanda leads the world in female parliamentary representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to her, the true success lies not in statistics alone, but in how women\u2019s leadership has changed governance and improved citizens\u2019 wellbeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative in Rwanda, Dr. Fatmata, has praised Rwanda\u2019s achievements in gender equality, saying the country\u2019s progress goes beyond increasing the number of women in leadership positions. She made the remarks on May 21, 2026, during a dialogue organized by the Rwanda Women Parliamentary Forum focusing on gender equality, leadership responsibilities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burimunsi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}