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Summary of Thailand's Follow-up Activities of the Fourth World
Conference on Women 

1. The National Commission on Women's Affairs (NCWA) and the
Council of Ministers considered reports from both the official
Thai Delegation and Government-supported NGOs delegation on
their participation at the Conference. Among the
recommendations of these reports is that the national machinery
for women's development be upgraded, in line with the Beijing
Declaration, and a working group has begun to consider the
steps needed to upgrade the ONCWA to departmental status.

2. The Office of the National Commission on Women's Affairs
(ONCWA has been translating the Beijing Declaration and
Platform for

Action into Thai for publication and dissemination to
government agencies, non-government organizations and concerned
parties.

3. The NCWA has established an Ad hoc Sub-Committee to draw up
Thailand's Plan of Action to be integrated with Thailand's
Perspective Policies and Planning for the Development of Women
(1992-2011). The result has been submitted to the Ad hoc
SubCommittee on the Preparation of the Women's Development Plan
during the period of the 8th National Economic and Social
Development Plan.

4. The ONCWA will conduct a meeting for 100 participants for
interested and relevant agencies to seek their views on the
Platform for Action and Thailand's Plan of Action.

5. The ONCWA will conduct a meeting for 500 representatives
from organizations involved with women's affairs, both
government and non-government, on Thailand's Plan of Action and
its implementation.

6. The ONCWA will conduct seminars for 300 local and grassroots
Women's leaders in the principal cities of the four main
regions of Thailand to enlist grassroots support for the Plan
of Action. It is hoped that after this seminar, community
development activities will be consistent with the Plan of
Action, and priority areas identified in it will receive
additional attention where appropriate to local conditions.

7. The ONCWA has established the National Committee on Women's
Labour and Social Welfare Development in order to observe
relevant issues which have been brought to prominence both by
the Platform for Action and increased concern about these
issues in the Thai Community.