Parliament of Montenegro

Parliament of Montenegro	Total	Women	Men	Women %	Men %
Speaker of the Parliament	1	0	1	0.0	100.0
Vice-Speakers of the Parliament	3	0	3	0.0	100.0
MPs	81	13	68	16.05	83.95
Secretary-General	1	0	1	0.0	100.0
Deputy of the Secretary-General	1	0	1	0.0	100.0

Working bodies in the Parliament of Montenegro	Number of members	Number of women	Women %	Men %
Constitutional Committee	13	1	7.69%	92.31%
Legislative Committee	13	2	15.38%	84.62%
Committee on Political System, Judiciary and Administration	13	3	23.08%	76.92%
Security and Defense Committee	13	0	0.00%	100.00%
Committee on International relations and Emigrants	13	1	7.69%	92.31%
Committee for European Integration	13	1	7.69%	92.31%
Committee for Economy, Finance and Budget	13	0	0.00%	100.00%
Committee on Human Rights and Freedoms	11	3	27.27%	72.73%
Committee for Gender Equality	11	9	81.82%	18.18%
Committee on Tourism, Agriculture, Ecology and Spatial Planning	13	1	7.69%	92.31%
Committee for Education, Science, Culture and Sport	11	5	45.45%	54.55%
Committee for Health, Labor and Social Welfare	11	1	9.09%	90.91%
Anti-corruption Committee	13	0	0.00%	100.00%
Administrative Committee	13	3	23.08%	76.92%
Commission on Monitoring and Control of Privatization Process	8	0	0.00%	100.00%
Inquiry Committee for the purpose of collecting information and facts on the events relating to the work of state authorities regarding publishing of audio recordings and transcripts from the meetings of DPS authorities and bodies	12	1	8.33%	91.67%
Working Group for building trust in election process	12	3	25.00%	75.00%

Courts

No.	Court	No. of women judges	Total number of judges	Court President	Women Judges %
1	Supreme Court	10	18	Woman	55.56%
2	Administrative Court	5	10	Man	50.00%
3	Court of Appeal	5	10	–	50.00%
4	Commercial Court Bijelo Polje	1	5	Man	20.00%
5	Commercial Court Podgorica	11	16	Man	68.75%
6	Higher Court Bijelo Polje	7	19	Man	36.84%
7	Higher Court Podgorica	23	34	Man	67.65%
8	Basic Court Bar	5	10	Man	50.00%
9	Basic Court Berane	5	10	Man	50.00%
10	Basic Court BP	7	13	Man	53.85%
11	Basic Court Cetinje	3	5	Man	60.00%
12	Basic Court Danilovgrad	2	4	Woman	50.00%
13	Basic Court Herceg Novi	5	7	Woman	71.43%
14	Basic Court Kolašin	2	3	Man	66.67%
15	Basic Court Kotor	6	16	Man	37.5%
16	Basic Court Nikšić	9	17	Man	52.94%
17	Basic Court Plav	1	2	Man	50.00%
18	Basic Court Pljevlja	6	7	Woman	85.71%
19	Basic Court Podgorica	26	39	Man	66.67%
20	Basic Court Rožaje	1	5	Man	20.00%
21	Basic Court Ulcinj	2	6	Woman	33.33%
22	Basic Court Žabljak	0	3	Man	0.00%
Total		143	260		55.00%

(d) Remove discriminatory practices and address cultural barriers that prevent women from moving into decision-making and management positions in the education sector and so ensure proportionate representation of women and men in principal positions.

Ministry of Education, in accordance with the CEDAW recommendations, runs a policy of improving the practice of eliminating discrimination and cultural barriers that prevent women to be employed in positions of decision-making and leadership positions in the education sector and to ensure proportional representation of women and men in positions of Director of the institution.

A key criterion for the selection of directors of institutions, under the same conditions, is the evaluation of the quality of the overall educational work and submitted development program of the institution. We note that at the time when recommendations were passed, the most of directors were for the period and the expiration of the mandate or dismissal possible with the new appointments will be based on proportional representation of women and men on the positions of educational institutions.

Directors of educational institutions	Number of women	Number of men	% of women
Homes for students	2	6	33,33
Musical elementary schools	7	2	77,78
Musical secondary schools	3	2	60
Educational centers	1	1	50
Elementary schools	44	117	27,33
Secondary schools	7	35	16,67
Secondary schools (private)	0	1	0
Pre-school institutions	15	3	83,33
Resource centers	0	3	0
Total	79	168	31,98

University of Montenegro — the total number (21) University units — 5 are female deans and 16 male deans (31.6%).

The data indicate that the percentage of women in managerial positions in educational institutions is growing; however, it is still necessary to work to empower women and break the stereotype that women were equally represented in decision-making.

(e) Provide incentives for political parties to nominate equal numbers of women and men as candidates and harmonize their statutes with the Law on Gender Equality, e.g. through party financing and by encouraging broadcasting media to allocate extra time to those parties during electoral campaigns.

(f) Create an enabling environment for political participation of women, including Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian women, e.g. by adequately funding campaigns of women candidates, educating young women leaders, and strengthening women’s wings of political parties.

Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, in the framework of IPA Gender Programme 2010, which is being implemented in cooperation with UNDP and with financial support from the EU, organized a series of conferences/training on the political empowerment of women:

•3 annual international conferences on women in politics that brought together about 300 participants from parliamentary parties and international organizations;

•Extensive training program for 167 members of the parliamentary political parties in the three municipalities where local elections were held 2012 (Kotor, Tivat and Herceg Novi)

•Extensive training program for trainers, which included 24 representatives of the parliamentary political parties;

•Lobbying campaign involving 11 meetings of the Resident Coordinator of UNDP in Montenegro with leaders of parliamentary political parties, the Committee on Gender Equality, representatives of the European Parliament and the European Commission and civil society.

The Gender Programme IPA 2010, during September and October 2013, led the campaign for the improvement of affirmative action in the Law on Election of Deputies. With representatives of the Working Group to build trust in the electoral process, as well as representatives of all political parties, it was asked to consider the introduction of specific measures on funding women’s groups within the party in the Law on Financing of Political Parties and the Law on Political Parties to clearly define encouraging women to political associations within the party, and delegating their representatives in the managerial positions of the party. Political parties positively commented these efforts, but only a slight success was achieved when it comes to women’s political organization.

Furthermore, the Ministry organizes trainings for representatives of Roma NGOs to strengthen their capacity, particularly in the area of combating violence against women and forced marriages. At the same time, the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, in cooperation with the Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, in partnership with NGOs, initiated the training of media to be sensitized to gender-responsive reporting and interested in the issue of women’s political participation and other important issues related to the gender equality policy in the country.