“SMART WOMEN” includes women with disabilities

 

The ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) has taken many steps towards empowering women with “Suhuruliya” initiative during the last few years. The entire initiative is expected to enhance women’s socioeconomic status by providing ICT knowledge and hands on experience for a sustainable and fortunate livelihood by 2025 and to empower women to overcome unemployment, poverty, crime & harassments through coherent ICT practices and to transform women to act as a conduit for uplifted society with the support of digital technologies.

As the pinnacle of activities conducted within the last few years ICTA conducted a “SMART Women’s Forum 2019” at Trace Expert City in December 2019, together with the annual Suhuruliya planning workshop, with the participation of Women including women entrepreneurs, WDOs, representatives of MoWCA, Policy Makers, female youth, Women in IT, community leaders, associations and women in tech, academia, social activists and female volunteers etc. 

Ms. Manique Gunaratne conducted the session on “How to  include women with disabilities in all programmes for women”.

 

 

Manique Gunaratne

Member of the Expert Body of the Sub Committee on Persons with Disabilities – Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka