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2. Public Advocacy

4. Engagement with Government

GAP has direct access to key government policy-making and monitoring processes as experts:

Dr. Yoriko Meguro

  • Chair, Evaluation Committee for the National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

  • Advisor, Committee for Eliminating Gender Gap (Toyooka City)

Professor Asako Osaki

  • Member, Experts’ Committee for Implementation and Monitoring of the National Action Plan for Gender Equality (Cabinet Office)

  • Member, Experts’ Committee on the Impacts of the COVID-19 on Women (Cabinet Office)

  • Member, Experts’ Committee for the World Assembly of Women (WAW!) (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

  • Member, Evaluation Committee for the National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

  • Member, National Committee for the Development of ISO (International Standardization Organization) Guideline for Implementing Gender Equality between Men and Women (Cabinet Office and Ministry of Economy, Technology, and Industry) Also representing Japan at international working group for drafting the Guideline

  • Gender Advisor, Digital Transformation Advisory Board, Mie Prefecture

  • Gender Advisor, Toyooka City

Ms. Michiko Tadamatsu

  • Leader of the sub-working team on Gender Pay Gap Disclosure Member, Committee of Networking on the Promotion of Gender Equality, Gender Equality Bureau, Cabinet Office

Influencing policies such as:

  • Agenda of the World Assembly of Women (WAW!) (2015-2022)

  • Annual Intensive Policy for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women 2022 (led to the legal reform to require information disclosure on gender pay gap)

  • National Action Plan for Women, Peace and Security (2016, 2019, 2022)

  • 5th National Action Plan for Gender Equality (2020)

  • 3-year Intensive Action Plan for Addressing Sexual Violence against Women and Girls (2020)

  • Japan’s Policy on Gender in Development (2016)

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