Osan City Holds Operational Meeting for Women-Friendly City Citizen Participation Group

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Lee Suwon] Osan City held an operational meeting on the 18th for its Women-Friendly City Citizen Participation Group to create a "citizen-friendly city where people participate together and enjoy shared benefits."

The meeting, attended by 11 members of the Women-Friendly City Citizen Participation Group, proceeded with a sharing of progress on inconveniences in daily life discovered through the citizen participation group's monitoring activities last year and a report on major activity plans for 2024.

The city plans to further strengthen the citizen participation group's women-friendly monitoring activities on public facilities and services in the region this year, and to actively promote patrol activities along with attaching "Women's Safety CCTV Recording in Progress" stickers in crime-vulnerable areas such as densely populated rooming house districts to create visual crime prevention effects.

The city received certification and designation as a women-friendly city from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family in January 2022, and has been operating the second-term citizen participation group. The city plans to recruit and organize the "3rd Women-Friendly City Citizen Participation Group" in April.

The Women-Friendly City Citizen Participation Group carries out diverse monitoring activities to ensure that gender equality and gender-aware perspectives are reflected in all city policies and to contribute to the creation of a safe city for socially disadvantaged groups including women.

Kim Anna, the leader of the citizen participation group who attended the meeting, said, "Welcoming the new year, based on our experience thus far, we will work more diligently with our members to pay greater attention to various daily inconveniences, gender discrimination factors, and safety-vulnerable areas in our surroundings and to suggest improvement measures."

Lee Myung-suk, director of the Family and Childcare Division, said, "Going forward, we will plan diverse educational programs and activities to expand participation and communication with the citizen participation group," and added, "We will spare no administrative effort to make Osan a women-friendly city where all citizens participate together and enjoy shared benefits."