 Yeah, okay. So good morning everyone. So my name is Nunu. I am from the VIA Women's Union. Today I'm really pleased to join the discussion together with friends from Ethiopian about and sharing the research together. So today I will just talk about and mainly about the research but before the research I'd also like to introduce who is the VIA Women's Union. And then I will go to the background of the research. Then I will share some key findings or our research in this presentation. So first, the VIA Women's Union. So TWU is one of the ethnic women organizations based in the VIA in the southern part of Myanmar. We established it in 1995 with the vision of the establishing a peaceful liberated just equal society in Burma. So to meet the visions we are also working some programs. One of our program is the Women Empowerment Program. So this program we mainly support women to bring into the politics through our education and advocacy in the wet region. Then one of these significant activity is that we train the format political empowerment training with at least six women every year since 2017. So this is one of the most effective programs that we are running. So another one is that we also train that basic human rights trainings in the village level so that the people from the village they are aware about human rights and they can promote human rights in their community. So another program is the Women Against Violence Program. Again that we also include an education program. So education is that we mainly train about the domestic violence and then gender-based violence in the community. So apart from the education we also support services for the women's survivor who have this different kind of violence in our region. So we provide legal support especially free or child for rape case and then we also provide their legal advice to the some of the case women or not for the rape case. And then we also support their basic needs such as shelter and their health care as well as the counsellors under this program. So the last program is a peace and development. So previously reconsolation program. So under this program that we mainly support their peace educations in our region. So at the same time that the women union is also working with a different civil society organization to include and to be can increase the P process in Yemma. So one of these activities is that the women unions are now representing in the civil society organization committee for Peace Forum at the regional level. So which we mainly work on the peace process in the region together with the other CSO from other regions as well. So again that here we also work in on the educations to education around the human rights and business. For example that when the meager projects have been implemented in our region we make sure that people are aware their rights regarding with the investment especially. So these kind of the activities and information and a peace and development program. So this is the introduction or organization so far. So now I will move to the research part. So the research is one of the first research that with a bigger scope that we have ever done in our region on gender equality. So first I would like to share that some of the backgrounds why we we have done this research. So the women unions experience working with the community in the previous years that so we found that women participation in politics especially in the parliament in 2015 has had to be increased so far. But at the same time that they are also the village level leaders for women. So we found that several women in our regions led in the region at the village level. But after 2015 general election there's also the by election in 2017. But again that we found that the some of the women village leader they were not elected again. So that is the issues that why they were not elected. So we T.D.B. work like to identify the limitation or the challenges or the barriers for women to participate in the leadership role or in the politics. So that is the background of our research. So we also said that there's some objectives before we conducted the research. One of the objectives is identifying the limitation of stickers for women to take a leader role at all levels. And then we also want to know how to create the potential opportunity for women in the future to begin a qualified leaders. And then we went at the evidence based research. So because so we have never done the particular research regarding with the women participation or gender equality so far in the region. So this is the first report that with wider you know the targeted. That's why that we really want to make sure this research became a tool or the resource for our work. So now that's the location. So where are we then there where we did the research. So here you will see the red part of the area we did. So this is the southern part of Myanmar. So the Tunisian regions there are 10 houses in total. We covered nine houses in total in our research. So in terms of the target group. Out of the 10 houses, nine houses. So we pick out communities, community needs that just ordinary the public. And then we also included the members of parliaments. And we interviewed village administrators. And then member or executive executive members from the political parties and the civil society organizations and the government administration department, as well as the member of political parties and religion leaders and the women activists or women leaders in the region. So in total, we interviewed 1548 people in this research. So in in terms of the sector, we categorize nine different groups. So you will see in the charge. So now I will go to the fighting parts. In terms of fighters, we have been divided into four categories. One of the categories is a social perspective. So in terms of the fight fighting, here in the church, you will see that 98% is at the highest fight number here. So this number is a women participation and leadership administration rule. So particularly when we ask the questions that how women like or how do the people elected their leader. So they responded the answer that men can take a role of the leadership rather than women. So it also is spread women themselves. So women answer that okay, only men can deserve to take a leadership role. So the percentage is very high. So rather than that, they are aware that we have the right to take this rule. So now they feel that they are not this, they are not the right people to take the leadership role. So I think this is one of the gap that we had to struggle with the gender equality in the future. So the second highest number you will see that 97%. So this one is especially in the administration rule. We have two different perspective. One is administrative and leadership. Now it's 97% in the administrative rule. So especially the government staff. So the women, they responded, they reported that only women men can lead to take the administrative rules in their community. So one of these is that sometimes women say that even the there are the same the same qualifications between men and women in the village level election. So the people well elected men rather than women because they are social norms. So again, that this percentage is also their higher number. So which really block women to become the leaders in the in the community. So we also found that one of the social norms, this kind of the provis, provis that no only croc crone can turn a daybreak. That is one of the very conservated ideas that people are believing it now. So which mean that no female can change. No female can make a change, but only men can make a change. So the ideas look like in that way. And then another provis that they are believing if women take a leadership rule, the country will go down and then they were running so that the country might be distracted by women. So that is also another conservated ideas that people still believe that today. So these are also supporting to become the higher percentage of the gender equality gender equality in the society. So you will see here that the lowest percentage here to 20 20% 20% answer that women are different women have a challenges to take a leadership role because that they feel that and secure and also that they feel them lack of the legal protection if they became if they became them village administrators at the village level because sometimes that there are five people in the administrative group, but only one women as a member. Yes, out of five, just there's one women only. So they feel that I'm safe and then not secure because of this situation. So that's why that 20% of the respondents feel that women should not take a leadership role because of the reason there's several reasons. So that 74% again that women feel that they are not skated for they are not capable in terms of knowledge or internal skills. So that's also another block for the women to take a leadership role in the social perspective. So here I will go to the another point. And then overall, when we analyse the social sector, we saw that more man dominated society in our community to take a leader role. And then again, that we are just covering. We do believe there are a lot of conservative norms in our society, which make an equality between men and women. That's why that women's rights are stated challenges to fully access. So another one is that we also found that the society is not supportive for the feminism. That's also one issues. And then another one is that women are they are taking the responsibility of the housework. So wages and pay work. So taking care of children, cooking, cleaning, washing. So that's why they are not capable or they are not available to take a leadership role. And then the last significant point is women feel that they are not appropriate to trouble overnight stay in case. For example, when women want to train up the trainees in the other city or maybe therefore overnight stay, they feel that the situation is not the situation will not support them. So because of this come from the our social norms, because we have been trained that and okay, women should not go to overnight stay and you know, accepted from their own house. So that is the the idea come from this. That's why that that is also one of the challenges. So to summarize the this social perspective fighters. So we have a lot of issues that no women or women are not capable, women are not desorption, women needs more time, women are busy. So that's why that when you look at the cartoon that we we created into cartoon based on the fighters. So women with children that they cannot easily go up above the water. It's me they cannot go for the leadership and they cannot look for the potential opportunity compared to men. So men can easily access to the information that they have a no responsibility regarding with the housework responsibility. That's why that women need to have a more rice right now. So that is the social perspective. So another one under the social perspective, we also try to take it out on the religion sector, what we found out from the religion sector here. We found that 90 over there. Yeah, so in total that we we interviewed there over to 95 yeah, religion, religion leaders in this research. So the interesting point is that 99% of the religion leader or responded, the answer that the religion have freedom. So there is no there's a load of discrimination against the religion. But it said that 40% assets showed that women have support for the empowerment or leading elimination of the GBB in the region. That means that some religion leaders, they just provide a shadow of venue for the empowerment program or such kind of the support. But I guess that 60% answer that then the politics or the leadership role is not their business. That's why that the religion or religion sector should not try to link to the politics, political issues so far. So the last person is 98. 98% report that women need to better their more capacity. They had to read more. And then they had to manage well enough in politics, also as well as that they should not, you know, deny or disobey the the rule of the religion so far. So it stayed that we we found that is there are still some limitation in the religion as well. So here the red collar the USC that one of the religion leader, they haven't mentioned that women does not they are not they don't have enough confidence level. So men's have more intelligent and they are more capable. So women, they think and just for shorter rather than longer. So that's why that based on this code, you know, praise praises. So it's me that religious sector also showed that women leadership is still not capable of it's not realistic in the society. So again, now we also analyze the education sector here. So we interviewed that 1000 over 1000 people from nine different sectors. We also access, we also asked about the education status, education status here, you will see that different level of the schooling, education, then it is very obvious that women, the number of women who access to the education in Myanmar are increased. So compared to men, but here we don't really, we don't really counter the education for the religion, because you will see that the last the second rule of the last line. So you will see that 88 member of the religion leader doesn't mean so may so only fight fight women here. So in terms of the religion, educations that come from the religion leader are not counter here. But overall, when we look at here, the women access to women completed education more than men in the society. But again, even though we have a higher number that women access education in our society, one interesting point is that why women don't become leaders in the society if they really look at criteria based on education because women completed education a lot more than men. So here between the 43% to 63% of women access to schooling from primary to postgraduate level. So it's not that we can say that women don't access educations. So stay women do access the right education. But the women they don't have a lot of rules or rank in the community. That's a very obvious. So compared to this situation, we also ask nine CSO civil society organization representative in this research. So they said that a lot of women's they don't, they cannot reach to access the training like human rights or women rights or any kind of gender training, because which are not teaching at the government school. So then that means that more men can reach out to the now format educations in the society. So that might be a gap to feed the gender equality. Yeah, according to our research. So here, that's why that another one before I explain that this cartoon. So they said this answer, they responded the answer that okay, that women who completed the human right trainings or gender training, but they come back to the organization, but they can only share their yes, their scale or experience to other. That means that the women just come up only at the sharing level. They cannot lead it. They cannot take the entire leadership role to make a change. So we we we could say that okay, there is just a path. The path is coming. But we are this not the end yet. So we can say like this here that according to our research overall, that we have a lot of social norms, we have a lot of limitation in reality. So that's why that just as being a women that the society, especially that include men and women, they don't allow women to just try to try it. So they just start to block before they tried it. That's why the women participation or women leadership is still facing with a lot of challenges. So this picture should be obvious. So another one is we have a politic and decision making level of findings here. So this is also one of our main research. One of the findings that we are looking for for to debut. So you will see here when we developed this research, the chief minister of the region was our female. Before she just she she charged with the anti correction act. So according to the answer from the different sector of the interview, 93% answer that women participation mean that they allow, they allow that women women are also there. They have the right to involve at the process. So which made that only majority of the people, they just accept the concept, not the implementations. So this finding came from the political parties. So when we talk about the women participation, women participation, okay, that they can apply, they can include it in the comedy or they can also apply it in that position. But they don't really consider, okay, they must apply. But they should apply. So this is the only idea or concept. And also the another understanding about the women leadership is that given a position, only position is made out now we are talking more and more about the meaningful participation. So they are not really considering about the meaningful participation, they just ideally say that okay, they can they can involve, they can be in the comedy. That's this. So that's why that women participation at some levels, they do need their meaningful participation when they work on a gender equality. So another one is that 46% answered that some of the political parties they developed a gender policy in the in their own parties. But there are no implementations enough. So it's wish me that the women right, they do accept, but they cannot implement yet. So that is also one of the key issues that women have to struggle in the future as well as right now. Yeah, so the percentage you will see that here 58% women, the answer should that women are not interested in politics. So this is when we analyze these issues, it is very obvious that because in the previous slide, I have been talking about the social known aloft, and then we have been talking about a lot of educations, we have been talking about the religion limitation. So with these findings or the with these situations, it is very certain that women, they can not interested in politics, because they feel that this is not the the area that they had to focus on. They were focused on more on the household level, you know, the responsibility in the with anti walk. So that's also one of the point that that might support this percentage. But when we look at here, 58% is so high, because it's a double more than double. So if the 58% of answer showed that it's women are not interested in politics, it is really challenges. And then we might have to give a lot of efforts to try to open up for women. So here you will see that 23% of the respondents, the answer that women have been that intimidate or fear and secure that this five days came from especially in the village level administration role. So because sometimes that women, when the women become the administrative roles, when they take this role, then they had to travel even at night. And then sometimes they had to chat or follow the gynestars, you know, regarding with the drugs or something like that. So that women feel they're not secure. And then as well as some time that they have the intimacy because of some reason. So be as a being the women leader. So that's it. But we see that this is only the 23% is not so high here. But here, another percentage in the 12% responded and said that women have no capacities. That's why that they are limited to participate in the leadership role. So that based on these fighting, you will see that higher percentage is more important. And as well as the most significant fighting is a 58% because it is much more important that how to bring women to to connect or to walk together with the women like us. Because we are just a minority here. But majority of the women population became not interested in politics. So that's why that that's also one of the points that TW has to work on in the future. Yeah. So here you will see the picture, one of the drawing here. When you look at the picture that you will see that the symbol of man, but there's a lot of women inside. So the picture that is mentioned that okay, there are a lot of women. And then but why women are very pure to the leadership role. It's a very obvious because women don't support women itself. So women support men. That's why that is more the man dominated society became not only because of the man, but also because of the women. So that is a very interesting drawing that come from the fightings. And then another one is this percentage you will see that political and decision making process at the village level or just previously I showed that 23% already they feed their fear, they feed not secure. So they feed the intimacy. That's why that this is very reluctant to take a leadership role at the village level. So another one here 58% is this one of the point that we should consider when we develop a gender equality work because of men more than double half of the percentage already showed that they are not interested. So that's the main findings that we are research have been identified. So thank you very much for listening with