Interventions and measures agreed upon to increase women's representation and participation in local government were decided upon, cognisant of also ensuring that we achieve the 50-50 representation of women. The programmes that were agreed to were as follows: leadership training; mentorship and financial management training; gender-responsive workplace policies, including sexual harassment policy implementation; institutional transformation to ensure an environment that will allow women to participate and to lead; capacity-building programmes that challenge the patriarchal system within local government; programmes that are transformational rather than event-driven; and access to funding so that women can be empowered to realise their goals.