The Regional Program assists national and local authorities to fulfil their gender equality obligations in order to fully integrate a gender sensitive budget and acquire the responsibility for managing and monitoring the implementation of national and local budgets. The same program aims to develop the ability of all relevant institutions to use gender sensitive budgeting as one of the key tools for achieving gender equality.

During the meeting, they discussed the position of women in Montenegro, their representation in public and social life, economic empowerment of women and regional cooperation in the field of improvement of gender equality.

The meeting was attended by Ms Biljana Pejović, Head of the Gender Equality Department at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, and Ms Senada Cikotić, associate at the Gender Equality Department at the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights.