GESI PIPs Delivered to NVS

Acting Manager GESI Coordination and Mainstreaming -Whole of Government Ms. Amelia Raka ( third from left) and Executive Director National Volunteering Services Ms. Molly Willie with the NVS Senior Management Team at the GESI PIP session this month.

The Gender Equity and Social Inclusion GESI Branch have successfully delivered the GESI Policy Implementation and Planning Session (PIPs) to the senior Management team of the National Volunteering Service of PNG.

Acting Manager, GESI Coordination and Mainstreaming Whole of Government Ms. Amelia Raka was pleased to witness a good turnout of the senior management team of National Volunteering Services who attended the planning and implementation session to prioritize the incorporation of Gender Equity and Social Inclusion (GESI) principles and values into their agency.

Ms. Raka said, as per the GESI Policy Implementation and Planning Session for NVS, through their executive management and senior management team, they have agreed to undertake the development of their internal GESI Workplace Policy, GBV Workplace Policy which they will be working closely with DPM to incorporate the principles and values of GESI in  training manuals of volunteers that they engage, to work with the agency.

Ms. Raka further states that this is in line with circular instruction N0. 8 of 2014 which instructed agencies to develop their internal GESI workplace policies, their GBV policies and also incorporate it into their corporate plans and workplans.

And to have the incorporation of GESI into the training manuals for volunteers that get inducted, into the National Volunteering Service is a bonus for us, added Ms. Raka.

“Going forward we’d like to see more agencies come in and sit in at the executive management level to hear on our purpose, their roles and responsibilities, in the implementation of GESI because they being at the executive management level are in a better position to make decisions for GESI”.

Executive Director for NVS, Ms. Molly Willie said the GESI PIP session was important for her agency because it provided an opportunity for her directors and managers, to be corrected regarding certain aspects that were raised in the session and how their behavior can have a direct effect on the opposite gender.