Sierra Leone - 2022 - Gender and Human Rights

The Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act, 2022

Gender and Children's Affairs

This Act is a revised version of the 2021 Gender Empowerment Act. The Act aims to promote gender equality and to make provision for a minimum of 30% representation for elective and appointive public officer positions, to make provision for equal opportunity for the training of employees, to make provision for financial institutions to prescribe procedures for the improvement of women access to finance and for other connected matters.

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The Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act, 2022 Current Version

October 2024

This Act is a revised version of the 2021 Gender Empowerment Act. The Act aims to promote gender equality and to make provision for a minimum of 30% representation for elective and appointive public officer positions, to make provision for equal opportunity for the training of employees, to make provision for financial institutions to prescribe procedures for the improvement of women access to finance and for other connected matters.

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